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The Laurie & John Hopkins Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE LAURIE & JOHN HOPKINS CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| KATE'S CLUB | $10,000 |
| HOME OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC | $6,250 |
| ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| PRUMC | $3,000 |
| ATLANTA BALLET | $3,000 |
| ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| ATLANTA MISSION | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER | $1,000 |
| LOVETT SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $1,000 |
| AUDITORY VERBAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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 +24% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- KCKATE'S CLUB INC6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +204%
- AMANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +86%
- AAANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- ULUVA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
- GFGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR PEROXISOMAL DISORDERSone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +6%
- HCHIGHLANDS CASHIER'S MUSIC FESTIVALone grant, 2021 · $700
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.
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
Fernbank museum of natural history inspires a lifelong learning of natural history through immersive programming and unmatched experiences to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its inhabitants. fernbank is dedicated to…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
To be the fundraising arm for the georgia aquarium, inc., to hold financial and other investments for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc., and to make distributions/grants/loans to and for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc.…
Private school for grades k-12
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
Atlanta celebrates photography (dba atlanta center for photography) (acp) advances new perspectives in lens-based media from the american south. through artwork commissions, community collaborations, and dynamic programs, acp supports…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Ewe Spirit Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 33 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 KATE'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS 4 SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's School ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN PRE-SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EWE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR PEROXISOMAL DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds AUDITORY VERBAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Chesapeake K9 Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · The Winifred M Gordon Foundation Inc Anne Dierdorff Thomas President · The Vasser Woolley Foundation Inc · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundation · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Arundel Community Development Services Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc
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 Laurie & John Hopkins Charitable Trust 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.
- Seeds 4 Success Inc — 48% of income from government
- Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc — 2% 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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