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Mountain Laurel Foundation at a glance

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Mountain Laurel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$517kHealth$313kArts & Culture$90kReligion$74kEnvironment$69kAnimals$57kPhilanthropy$34kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
$9,932
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL$31,500
ALLEGHENY-BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE$9,932
CHARLOTTESVILLE WALDORF SCHOOL$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $1k → 6%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $1k → 6%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $1k → 6%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $1k → 6%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $1k → 6%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
IA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 37 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
15

Total granted

$1.2M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

70%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SB
    SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $426k · revenue +2%
  • Foxcroft School
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +82%
  • TG
    TEMPLE GWATHMEY STEEPLECHASE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • DM
    DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -58%
  • PM
    PAUSE MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -33%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
2
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…

Environment
3
Cape Ann Museum Inc

To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…

Arts & Culture
4
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
5
Longneck Manor Conservation Foundation

To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes

Animals
6
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
7
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
8
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment
9
Northern Neck Land Conservancy

Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…

Environment
10
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
11
Wilton Land Conservation Trust

Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.

Environment
12
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Nature Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
22/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $426,405 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTEFoxcroft School: $32,000 · EducationFoxcroft SchoolVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · Education+4 more: $37,500 · Education+4 moreNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $290,750 · OtherNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITALTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $64,000 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCHVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER: $32,000 · OtherVIRGINIA HORSE CENTERDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC: $20,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE: $19,000 · Other+23 more: $140,300 · Other+23 moreTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $16,000 · Arts & CultureBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $14,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKid Pan Alley: $8,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureALLEGHENY-BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE: $13,432 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10,000 · EnvironmentDELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $4,000 · EnvironmentTUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $23,000 · PhilanthropyLONGWOOD GARDENS INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyRAPPAHANNOCK PANTRY INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionTEMPLE GWATHMEY STEEPLECHASE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$517,905Other$566,050Arts & Culture$56,500Environment$47,432Philanthropy$31,000Food & Nutrition$21,500Recreation & Sports$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $426,405 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFoxcroft School: $32,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAPPAHANNOCK PANTRY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEMPLE GWATHMEY STEEPLECHASE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALLEGHENY-BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE: $13,432 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE WALDORF SCHOOL: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPAUSE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER: $9,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKid Pan Alley: $8,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLONGWOOD GARDENS INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE: $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMonacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALMANACK ARTS COLONY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds TEMPLE GWATHMEY STEEPLECHASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
  • Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGHENY-BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds PAUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Kid Pan Alley ↗
  • Who funds LONGWOOD GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charlottesville Area …Northern Piedmont Com…Fauquier Health Found…The Community Foundat…The William and Mary …Delaware Community Fo…S&P Global Foundation…Stratus FoundationFagus FoundationKookaburra FoundationQuantitative Foundati…Janet Stone Jones Fou…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The William and Mary Greve Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Stratus Foundation · Fagus Foundation · Kookaburra Foundation · Quantitative Foundation · Janet Stone Jones Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mountain Laurel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mountain Laurel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Delaware Nature Society Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Tower Hill School Association: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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