How much did THE LAYMAN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of THE LAYMAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

retirementscholarship

2021

fletcher operatesoperates distinctlydistinctly seventh-dayadventist retirementretirement fitnessfitness retirementhealth

2022

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2023

gradehealthscholarship

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

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

$26,984

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 94% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 10 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+50%

Still filing today

90%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalOther

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

FA
FLETCHER ACADEMY
5× · 2020–2024 · $981k · revenue +13%
LS
LAURELBROOK SANITARIUM AND SCHOOL
4× · 2020–2024 · $69k · revenue +18%
OA
OKLAHOMA ACADEMY
3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +5%

Funded once

HD
HARTLAND DAY ACADEMYgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +50%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Valley Christian Academy Inc

Christian School grades k-8

Education

Westmoreland Christian Academy

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…

Education

Heritage Christian Academy Inc

School grades preK - 12th grade

Education

Horizon Christian Academy Inc

private school

Education

Lexington Christian Academy

Our mission is to equip and to nurture students to fulfill god's calling on their lives through christ-centered education.

Education

Fort Bend Christian Academy

FBCA is a pre-kindergarten through twelfth-grade day school.

Education

Heritage Christian Academy

To serve the community as an evangelical christian school for education.

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Slavic Christian Academy

Private christian school below college level operated by a religious order.

Education

Covenant Christian Academy

Operation of a non-profit school

Education

Landmark Christian School

Equip college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives. (see sch. o)

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Westminster Christian Academy

Primary & Secondary Education

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Brethren Frontier School

Quality Christian education

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rural Life Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Missions Unlimited of Oregon Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

7/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,536,549International$59,520Education$57,078

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.

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.

Asi Missions IncMD16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FLETCHER ACADEMY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 561432644 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FLETCHER ACADEMY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Layman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Layman Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE LAYMAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Layman Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE LAYMAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Layman Foundation?

More from the funding graph