· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +118% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +437%
- 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 +77%- NYNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -33%
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 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 ↗
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: Tower Family Fund Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Laurie David Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Laurie David Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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