Skip to content
The Laub Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Laub Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$234k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$1.3MArts & Culture$525kYouth Development$77kHealth$61kEnvironment$52kCommunity Improvement$45kScience & Tech$39kAnimals$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART$6,000
CUYAHOGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$4,500
HATHAWAY BROWN ACADEMY$4,500
HANNA PERKINS SCHOOL$4,500
ST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL$4,500
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$4,500
MAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOL$4,500
MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION$4,500
COLLEGE OF WOOSTER$4,500
ST JOSEPH ACADEMY$4,500
URSULINE COLLEGE$4,500
JULIE BILLART SCHOOL$4,500
LAUREL SCHOOL$4,500
LUTHERAN EAST HIGH SCHOOL$4,500
LUTHERAN WEST HIGH SCHOOL$4,500
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 (FY21–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTERS FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN: $3k → 17%CENTERS FOR FAMILY AND CHILDREN: $3k → 17%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.
$2.2M · 70 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

70 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
4

Total granted

$2.2M
$10k

Still filing today

50%
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
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +18%
  • HS
    HAWKEN SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +76%
  • LS
    LAUREL SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • W
    WSEM
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
6
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Institute of Art; the most unlike its peers is Contemporary Youth Orchestra. 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

35 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. 35 of the 74 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
29/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HATHAWAY BROWN ACADEMY: $41,000 · OtherGILMOUR ACADEMY INC: $41,000 · OtherLUTHERAN EAST HIGH SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL OF CLEVELAND: $40,000 · OtherLUTHERAN WEST HIGH SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherMAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherST JOSEPH ACADEMY: $40,000 · OtherLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherJULIE BILLIART SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherNDCL: $40,000 · OtherURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherBEAUMONT SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherGREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER: $38,500 · Other+29 more: $584,000 · Other+29 moreWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $41,000 · EducationWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMYLAKE RIDGE ACADEMY: $41,000 · EducationLAKE RIDGE ACADEMYHAWKEN SCHOOL: $41,000 · EducationHAWKEN SCHOOLLAUREL SCHOOL: $41,000 · EducationLAUREL SCHOOLCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $40,500 · EducationCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSICANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMYPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMYTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $39,000 · EducationTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ARTTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $36,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTERLAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $36,000 · EducationLAKE ERIE COLLEGEJohn Carroll University: $36,000 · EducationJohn Carroll UniversityURSULINE COLLEGE: $36,000 · EducationURSULINE COLLEGEOberlin College: $36,000 · EducationOberlin CollegeBaldwin Wallace University: $35,500 · EducationBaldwin Wallace UniversityBEREA COLLEGE: $35,500 · EducationBEREA COLLEGECASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYNOTRE DAME COLLEGE: $31,500 · Education+1 more: $9,000 · EducationThe Musical Arts Association: $40,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Ar…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSE…THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $39,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND …WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $38,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RESERV…Playhouse Square Foundation: $37,500 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Squa…THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $30,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND …CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $27,500 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSE…CONTEMPORARY YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $26,500 · Arts & CultureCONTEMPORARY Y…HANNA PERKINS SCHOOL: $40,000 · HealthCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $29,500 · AnimalsTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $24,500 · EnvironmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Centers for Families and Children: $5,500 · Human Services
Other$1,144,500Education$650,000Arts & Culture$279,500Health$40,000Animals$29,500Environment$24,500Youth Development$18,000Human Services$5,500

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 budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE RIDGE ACADEMY: $41,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL: $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAUREL SCHOOL: $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $40,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $40,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHANNA PERKINS SCHOOL: $40,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $39,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $39,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $38,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $37,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetURSULINE COLLEGE: $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $35,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $35,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME COLLEGE: $31,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $30,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $29,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONTEMPORARY YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $26,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI: $26,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $24,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $22,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $5,500 over 2y, 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 WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds ANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HANNA PERKINS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds John Carroll University ↗
  • Who funds URSULINE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Oberlin College ↗
  • Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…John P Murphy Foundat…Kulas FoundationThe Char and Chuck Fo…The Veale FoundationThe O'Neill Brothers …Fred a Lennon Charita…The Lozick Family Fou…Burton D Morgan Found…The Louise H & David …The George Gund Found…Jewish Federation of …
The Cleveland FoundationOH43.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Kulas Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Veale Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · The Lozick Family Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The George Gund Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland

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 The Laub Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Laub Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Laub Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Laub Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 74 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Laub’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home