· Public charity
The Layman Foundation
Promote/support christian education with work study/agricultural emphasis.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $208k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLETCHER ACADEMY | $151,587 |
| HERITAGE ACADEMY | $125,397 |
| RURAL LIFE FOUNDATION DBA HARBERT | $49,206 |
| WEIMAR ACADEMY | $46,825 |
| OKLAHOMA ACADEMY | $29,365 |
| OUACHITA HILLS ACADEMY | $26,984 |
| LAURELBROOK SANITARIUM & SCHOOL | $21,429 |
| CASTLE VALLEY ACADEMY | $17,460 |
| JEFFERSON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $16,667 |
| BEACON ACADEMY | $9,524 |
| HARTLAND DAY ACADEMY | $5,556 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% 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
- FAFLETCHER ACADEMY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $981k · revenue +42%
- LSLaurelbrook Sanitarium and School Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $69k · revenue +38%
- MUMissions Unlimited of Oregon Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +449%
Funded once
- HIHARTLAND INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND EDUCATIONone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
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.
Westmoreland Christian Academy educates children Pre-K thru 12th Grade using the accepted ABEKA Curriculum. WCA maintains a regular faculty with a regular enrolled body of pupils or students in attendance where it conducts the educational…
Boarding School for students from grades 7 through 12.
Operate a cottage school following the gospel
To provide quality education from pre-k through high school
Bluegrass christian academy partners with families to educate students in the classical tradition and form then into god-honoring people who grow in wisdom, virtue and service to others through the entirety of their lives.
private school
School grades preK - 12th grade
Quality Christian education
Bradford Academy is Classical and Christ-centered in order to glorify God by educating children to love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength and to love their neighbor as themselves.
Educating students in Hill and surrounding counties in grades one through twelve.
Education from a christian perspective, teaching 70-80 students k-8th grade.
Private Christian school for grades 3rd-12th which offers academics and extra-curricular activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Castle Valley Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ouachita Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 FLETCHER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Rural Life Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OUACHITA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Laurelbrook Sanitarium and School Inc ↗
- Who funds Missions Unlimited of Oregon Inc ↗
- Who funds Weimar Institute ↗
- Who funds Jefferson Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds CASTLE VALLEY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HARTLAND INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND EDUCATION ↗
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: Asi Missions Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Layman Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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