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The Layman Foundation

Promote/support christian education with work study/agricultural emphasis.

$500k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$152k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.5MArts & Culture$125k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $208k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $277k
$26,984
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WEIMAR ACADEMY: $47k → 6%JEFFERSON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $17k → 18%OKLAHOMA ACADEMY: $29k → 16%OUACHITA HILLS ACADEMY: $27k → 20%BEACON ACADEMY: $10k → 12%LAURELBROOK SANITARIUM & SCHOOL: $27k → 14%HERITAGE ACADEMY: $125k → 24%FLETCHER ACADEMY: $318k → 12%CASTLE VALLEY ACADEMY: $17k → 11%HARTLAND DAY ACADEMY: $6k → 8%WEIMAR ACADEMY: $36k → 6%JEFFERSON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $13k → 18%OKLAHOMA ACADEMY: $20k → 16%OUACHITA HILLS ACADEMY: $20k → 20%BEACON ACADEMY: $6k → 12%LAURELBROOK SANITARIUM & SCHOOL: $21k → 14%RURAL LIFE FOUNDATION DBA HARBERT: $49k → 24%FLETCHER ACADEMY: $300k → 12%CASTLE VALLEY ACADEMY: $11k → 11%WEIMAR ACADEMY: $19k → 6%JEFFERSON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $7k → 18%OKLAHOMA ACADEMY: $10k → 16%OUACHITA HILLS ACADEMY: $8k → 20%LAURELBROOK SANITARIUM & SCHOOL: $12k → 14%RURAL LIFE FOUNDATION DBA HARBERT: $36k → 24%FLETCHER ACADEMY: $152k → 12%LAURELBROOK SANITARIUM AND SCHOOL: $9k → 14%HERITAGE ACADEMY: $26k → 24%FLETCHER ACADEMY: $103k → 12%HERITAGE ACADEMY: $20k → 24%FLETCHER ACADEMY: $57k → 12%RURAL LIFE FOUNDATION DBA HARBERT: $17k → 24%FLETCHER ACADEMY: $51k → 12%RURAL LIFE FOUNDATION DBA HARBERT: $15k → 24%HERITAGE ACADEMY: $14k → 24%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.

Which US states its grants reach

CA
UT
VA
AR
TN
NC
OK
TX
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 10 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$1.6M
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

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.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalOther
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

  • FA
    FLETCHER ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $981k · revenue +42%
  • LS
    Laurelbrook Sanitarium and School Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $69k · revenue +48%
  • MU
    Missions Unlimited of Oregon Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +449%

Funded once

  • HI
    HARTLAND INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND EDUCATION
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
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

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.

1
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
2
Cedar Ridge Academy Inc

Boarding School for students from grades 7 through 12.

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3
Living Education Academy

Operate a cottage school following the gospel

Education
4
Liberty Christian Academy Inc

To provide quality education from pre-k through high school

Education
5
Bluegrass Christian Academy Inc

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.

Education
6
Horizon Christian Academy Inc

private school

Education
7
Heritage Christian Academy Inc

School grades preK - 12th grade

Education
8
Brethren Frontier School

Quality Christian education

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9
The Christian Education Society of Mebane Inc

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.

Education
10
Hill County Christian Academy

Educating students in Hill and surrounding counties in grades one through twelve.

Education
11
Hollandale Christian School

Education from a christian perspective, teaching 70-80 students k-8th grade.

Education
12
Liberty Christian School Inc

Private Christian school for grades 3rd-12th which offers academics and extra-curricular activities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Castle Valley Academy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 11 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLETCHER ACADEMY INC: $980,585 · OtherFLETCHER ACADEMY INCHERITAGE ACADEMY INC: $184,575 · OtherHERITAGE ACADEMY INCRural Life Foundation Inc: $116,919 · OtherRural Life Foundation IncOUACHITA MINISTRIES INC: $101,896 · OtherOUACHITA MINISTRIES INCLaurelbrook Sanitarium and School Inc: $68,912 · OtherWeimar Institute: $55,407 · Other+1 more: $28,255 · OtherMissions Unlimited of Oregon Inc: $59,520 · InternationalJefferson Christian Academy: $36,317 · EducationBEACON ACADEMY: $15,205 · EducationHARTLAND INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND EDUCATION: $5,556 · Education
Other$1,536,549International$59,520Education$57,078

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 budgetFLETCHER ACADEMY INC: $980,585 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetRural Life Foundation Inc: $116,919 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetOUACHITA MINISTRIES INC: $101,896 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetLaurelbrook Sanitarium and School Inc: $68,912 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMissions Unlimited of Oregon Inc: $59,520 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetWeimar Institute: $55,407 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJefferson Christian Academy: $36,317 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetCASTLE VALLEY ACADEMY INC: $28,255 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY: $15,205 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHARTLAND INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND EDUCATION: $5,556 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Asi Missions IncAmazonsmile Foundation
Asi Missions IncMD13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Layman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Layman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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