· Private foundation
The Laurie David Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| BIODIVERSITY WORKS | $5,000 |
| THE FIELD FUND | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +118% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 2 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 FY2023, 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
- IGISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +395%
- VCVINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC3× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +17%
- BIBIODIVERSITYWORKS INC3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +118%
Funded once
Woodwell Climate Research Center Incone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -48%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +92%- NYNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -33%
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.
Hudson carbon is dedicated to catalyzing the adoption of regenerative organic agriculture by advancing our scientific understanding of its practices and systems, and their potential to radically reverse climate change and environmental…
Aei is a non profit ideation collaborative studio creating globalscale, ecological based solutions for a climate positive future.
The martha's vineyard shellfish group, a non-profit consortium of the shellfish departments of six island towns, provides shellfish propagation services to increase the availability of juvenile commercially valuable molluscan shellfish…
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
To provide progressive environmental study and education that furthers global sustainablity and conservation policies.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Earth Island Institute (the Organization) was founded in 1982 by legendary environmentalist David R. Brower (1912-2000) to confront the unprecedented threats to life on Earth. The Organization supports environmental initiatives that are…
To own and lease land for the purpose of developing, building and maintaining affordable housing on martha's vineyard, massachusetts.
Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.
The organization is based on governor's island whose mission is to reduce the organic waste misdirected into new york city's landfills by encouraging neighbor participation and leadership in composting.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
The martha's vineyard agricultural society supports a resilient and sustainable agricultural community on martha's vineyard. we do this by:- offering services, education, marketing, and technical support for farmers and farmworkers on the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vineyard Conservation Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dir Biyabir. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BIODIVERSITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DIR BIYABIR ↗
- Who funds THE FIELD FUND 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 Laurie David Foundation Inc 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.
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Biodiversityworks Inc — 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% 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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