· Private foundation
The John W Laidlaw Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORT CITY CHURCH OF CHRIST | $27,000 |
| UNIVERSTITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $25,968 |
| LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE | $5,500 |
| AGAPE OF CENTRAL AL | $500 |
| MOBILE BAYKEEPER | $300 |
| MISSION OF HOPE | $250 |
| SALEM CHURCH OF CHRIST | $240 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TLTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +60%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF JACKSONVILLE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +14%
- HHHUBBARD HOUSE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- MCMOBILE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -7%
- COCAMPUS OUTREACHone grant, 2023 · $1k
- SBST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Organization was formed to build, own and operate a Ronald McDonald House in Mobile, Alabama. The facility provides overnight lodging for children and their parents who travel long distances to Mobile area hospitals for various…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
Provider of rural pre-hospital care, emergency medical education and training and medical dispatch communications
Ronald mcdonald house is a home-away from home for the families of children who come to the medical facilities in galveston for diagnosis and treatment of serious and long-term illnesses. this type facility offers parents and their…
The mission of the ronald mcdonald house of houston, inc. is to offer a home away from home and to provide care, compassion, and hope to families with seriously ill children being treated in texas medical center member institutions.
Ronald mcdonald house alabama, inc. provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
The organization provides a "home away from home" to families with seriously ill children, and supports initiatives to improve pediatric health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Jacksonville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hubbard House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HUBBARD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BULLOCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The John W Laidlaw Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hubbard House Inc — 42% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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