· Private foundation
The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust
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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $575k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COMMON MARKET | $100,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| EDESIA INC | $100,000 |
| ANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND INC | $70,000 |
| MAKE PROJECTS | $65,000 |
| URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE | $65,000 |
| SOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND | $50,000 |
| FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| THE MAYO CLINIC | $40,000 |
| THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC | $25,000 |
| MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN PGA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| CATALYST FOR CHANGE INC | $25,000 |
| HEALTH ACCESS SUMBAWA INC | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 42% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k 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
- TFTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +728% · 71% of their budget
- UGURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC3× · 2021–2025 · $205k · revenue +6%
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- COCOUNTY OF FAIRFAX VIRGINIAone grant, 2020 · $375k
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -45%
- 8N826 National Incone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -21%
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.
To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.
Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward
Trade association for electric cooperatives
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aya Art Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
119 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. 119 of the 161 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 THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds The Elden Street Players DBA NextStop Theatre Co ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds VPM MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Alpha-Omega Miracle Home Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES INC ↗
- Who funds VECINOS UNIDOS-NEIGHBORS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds 826 National Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC ↗
- Who funds KOMERA INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSED UNREST THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LINK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Committee for Dulles Community Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFUL DAY ↗
- Who funds Intersection for the Arts ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Pga Tour Inc
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 Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Alpha-Omega Miracle Home Inc — 46% of income from government
- Hubbard House Inc — 42% of income from government
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Baltimore Safe Haven Corp — 28% of income from government
- The Producers Club of Md Inc — 7% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Horseplay Therapy Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.