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The Layden Family Foundation at a glance

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The Layden Family Foundation

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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$253kEducation$100kPhilanthropy$11kHuman Services$10kHousing & Shelter$8kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$353k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$40,000
FRIENDS OF LAKE SHORE$25,000
WEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$15,000
HOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
DISCOVERY WORLD$10,000
BSA - THREE HARBORS COUNCIL$10,000
BONITA SPRINGS CHARTER SCHOOL$10,000
HEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $25k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%ACTS HOUSING: $5k → 17%HEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation: $15k → 11%Acts Housing: $3k → 17%Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation: $5k → 11%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $60k → 17%HEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%WGCU LEADERSHIP CIRCLE: $15k → 11%NATHAN & ESTHER PELZ HOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 17%Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation: $3k → 11%Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation: $10k → 11%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $30k → 17%HEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%NATHAN & ESTHER PELZ HOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 17%HEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%WGCU Leadership circle: $10k → 11%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $25k → 17%WGCU LEADERSHIP CIRCLE: $5k → 11%NATHAN & ESTHER PELZ HOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 17%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%FRIENDS OF LAKE SHORE: $25k → 17%BONITA SPRINGS CHARTER SCHOOL: $10k → 11%HOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 17%NATHAN & ESTHER PELZ HOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 17%DISCOVERY WORLD: $10k → 17%Holocaust Education Resource Center: $10k → 17%Discovery World: $10k → 17%DISCOVERY WORLD: $10k → 17%Friends of Lake Shore: $3k → 17%DISCOVERY WORLD: $3k → 17%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $3k → 17%BSA - THREE HARBORS COUNCIL: $10k → 17%UNITED WAY MILWAUKEE: $10k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$498k · 11 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$498k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+156%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MA
    MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $118k · revenue +8%
  • FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $93k · revenue +61%
  • DISCOVERY WORLD LTD
    4× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +213%

Funded once

  • MC
    MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +156%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATHAN & ESTHER PELZ HOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER: $110,000 · OtherNATHAN & ESTHER PELZ HOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOUR…Individual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF LAKE SHORE: $27,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF LAKE SHOREHOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 · OtherHOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTERWEST BAY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherBSA - THREE HARBORS COUNCIL: $10,000 · OtherBONITA SPRINGS CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $92,500 · EducationFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY …DISCOVERY WORLD LTD: $32,500 · EducationDISCOVERY WORLD LTDMASON CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $25,000 · EducationMASON CLASSICAL ACADEMY INCMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $117,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INCHEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUND…WEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$233,000Education$150,000Arts & Culture$137,500Human Services$25,000Housing & Shelter$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $117,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $92,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMASON CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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 MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
  • Who funds MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 15 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.

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