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Robert J Laskowski Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$55kEnvironment$46kPhilanthropy$37kArts & Culture$19kFood & Nutrition$9kHealth$9k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,891
Median grant
2
States reached
$308k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTER$3,000
GREAT SOUTH BAY AUDUBON SOCIETY$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,891
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$1,891
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$1,891
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$1,891
Individual grant recipient$1,891
NY BOTANICAL GARDEN$1,891
ALUMNI ASSOC OF SUNY AGR$945
SOUTHSIDE HOSPITAL$945
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTER: $3k → 7%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $2k → 16%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2k → 17%NY BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2k → 28%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FND: $2k → 14%TOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTER: $3k → 7%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $2k → 16%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2k → 17%NY BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2k → 28%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FND: $2k → 14%TOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTER: $3k → 7%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $2k → 16%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2k → 17%NY BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2k → 28%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FND: $2k → 14%TOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTER: $3k → 7%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $2k → 16%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2k → 17%NY BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2k → 28%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FND: $2k → 14%TOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTER: $3k → 7%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $2k → 16%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2k → 17%NY BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2k → 28%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FND: $2k → 14%TOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTER: $3k → 7%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $2k → 16%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2k → 17%NY BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2k → 28%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FND: $2k → 14%TOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTER: $3k → 7%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $2k → 16%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2k → 17%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FND: $2k → 14%TOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTER: $3k → 7%TOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTER: $3k → 7%ENVIRONVMENTAL DEFENSE: $2k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $2k → 28%ENVIRONVMENTAL DEFENSE: $2k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $2k → 28%ENVIRONVMENTAL DEFENSE: $2k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $2k → 28%ENVIRONVMENTAL DEFENSE: $2k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $2k → 28%ENVIRONVMENTAL DEFENSE: $2k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $2k → 28%ENVIRONVMENTAL DEFENSE: $2k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $2k → 28%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$176k
$0

Still filing today

40%
0%

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 & CultureAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    10× · 2017–2026 · $19k · revenue +59%
  • GS
    Great South Bay Audubon Society Inc
    10× · 2017–2026 · $18k · revenue +44%
  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
    10× · 2017–2026 · $9k · revenue +104%

Funded once

    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
    04the grantee network

    4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

    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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 10 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)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    4/4
    Grantees still filing
    3/4
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    TOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTER: $27,000 · OtherTOWN OF ISLIP FBO SOUTH SHORE NATURE CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $18,661 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $18,659 · OtherCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGYNY BOTANICAL GARDEN: $18,658 · OtherNY BOTANICAL GARDENIndividual grant recipient: $18,657 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGreat South Bay Audubon Society Inc: $18,000 · OtherGreat South Bay Audubon Society IncALUMNI ASSOC OF SUNY AGR: $9,329 · OtherALUMNI ASSOC OF SUNY AGRAmerican Museum of Natural History: $18,658 · Arts & CultureAmerican Mus…Wildlife Conservation Society: $18,657 · AnimalsWildlife Con…SOUTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $9,328 · Health
    Other$128,964Arts & Culture$18,658Animals$18,657Health$9,328

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

    25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $18,658 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $18,657 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetGreat South Bay Audubon Society Inc: $18,000 over 10y, 14% of budgetSOUTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $9,328 over 10y, 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 American Museum of Natural History ↗
    • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
    • Who funds Great South Bay Audubon Society Inc ↗
    • Who funds SOUTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

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

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
      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 10 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.

      Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2025, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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