· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| HOME OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| KATE'S CLUB | $10,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC | $6,250 |
| ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| ATLANTA BALLET | $3,000 |
| PRUMC | $3,000 |
| ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| ATLANTA MISSION | $2,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $1,000 |
| AUDITORY VERBAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| LOVETT SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- 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 GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR PEROXISOMAL DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Laurie & John Hopkins Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Laurie & John Hopkins Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Seeds 4 Success Inc: 48% of income from government
- Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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