Virginia · 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 53
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $48M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 54 | $1.1M | 41% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $839k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $836k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $1.3M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $553k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fairfax County Park Foundation Inc | $1,065,102 | 6 | 71% |
| Urban Growers Collective Inc | $205,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund Inc | $190,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Make Projects | $140,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Dollywood Foundation | $115,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Solar Electric Light Fund | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Edesia Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Common Market Philadelphia Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($890k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust
- How much does The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust give?
- The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust reported 56 grants totaling $1,184,970 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (25%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Fairfax County Park Foundation Inc ($1.1M), Urban Growers Collective Inc ($205k), Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund Inc ($190k).
- Does The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust based?
- The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust is based in VA.
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