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The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.0MEducation$680kArts & Culture$565kHealth$428kEmployment$380kHuman Services$373kHousing & Shelter$258kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $575k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $550k
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$100,000
THE COMMON MARKET$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
MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS$25,000
THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC$25,000
CATALYST FOR CHANGE INC$25,000
METROPOLITAN PGA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION$25,000
POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION$20,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%THE COMMON MARKET: $100k → 22%OPEN TRAIL INC: $10k → 7%MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS: $25k → 10%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER: $50k → 8%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $18k → 7%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $25k → 14%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%BALTIMORE SAFE HAVEN CORP: $5k → 19%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $4k → 15%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%BEAUTIFUL DAY: $20k → 14%VIRGINIA UNITED METHODIST HOMES: $13k → 9%PIE IN THE SKY: $10k → 6%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $10k → 7%VIRGINIA UNITED METHODIST HOMES: $3k → 9%MIRACLE BABIES: $5k → 11%BEAUTIFUL DAY: $20k → 14%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $8k → 7%VIRGINIA UNITED METHODIST HOMES: $3k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 9%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $5k → 7%VIRGINIA VOICE: $10k → 9%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS & LEARNING CTR: $10k → 11%CORNERSTONES: $25k → 6%CORNERSTONES: $18k → 6%WOMENS REFUGEE CARE: $10k → 14%CORNERSTONES: $15k → 6%TRAVELERS AID INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%WOMENS REFUGEE CARE: $3k → 14%HORSEPLAY THERAPY CENTER: $10k → 6%CORNERSTONES: $3k → 6%HORSEPLAY THERAPY CENTER INC: $10k → 6%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

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VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 42% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 40%.

The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 67 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
69

Total granted

$3.9M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+7%

Still filing today

82%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • TF
    THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +728% · 71% of their budget
  • UG
    URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $205k · revenue +6%
  • THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • CO
    COUNTY OF FAIRFAX VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2020 · $375k
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -45%
  • 8N
    826 National Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -21%
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
Virginia Peninsula Foodbank

To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.

Food & Nutrition
2
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Moveable Feast Inc

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…

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4
Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition
5
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement
7
Residential Opportunities Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Baltimore Hunger Project Llc

Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.

Human Services
9
Pathways Kitchen

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

Crime & Legal
10
Virginia Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives

Trade association for electric cooperatives

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11
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

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…

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12
Act for Alexandria

Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

120 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. 120 of the 161 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/120
Grantees still filing
73/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COUNTY OF FAIRFAX VIRGINIA: $375,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF FAIRFAX VIRGINIAEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $125,000 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $115,000 · OtherMAKE PROJECTS: $140,000 · OtherMAKE PROJECTSSOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND: $100,000 · Other+87 more: $1,661,162 · Other+87 moreTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,065,102 · Community ImprovementTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PAR…GREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC: $50,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $82,500 · Community Improvement+3 moreURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $205,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN GROWERS …ANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND INC: $190,000 · Food & NutritionANNE SAXELBY L…EDESIA INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionEDESIA INCCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA F…FEED MORE INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE INCBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionBOCA HELPING H…+4 more: $65,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreCOMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON MAR…CORNERSTONES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTON…VECINOS UNIDOS-NEIGHBORS UNITED INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesVECINOS UN…Adopt-A-Native Elder: $50,000 · Human ServicesAdopt-A-Na…BEAUTIFUL DAY: $40,000 · Human ServicesBEAUTIFUL …FENWICK FOUNDATION: $27,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $25,000 · Human ServicesMadison Area Food Pantry Gardens: $25,000 · Human ServicesARLINGTON THRIVE: $22,500 · Human ServicesHORSEPLAY THERAPY CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human Services+14 more: $134,500 · Human Services+14 moreVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · EducationKOMERA INC: $50,000 · Education826 National Inc: $50,000 · EducationCommittee for Dulles Community Outreach Inc: $42,500 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $40,000 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $30,000 · EducationKids R First: $27,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $20,000 · EducationWILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE: $15,000 · Education+3 more: $17,577 · EducationThe Elden Street Players DBA NextStop Theatre Co: $75,000 · Arts & CultureVPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $62,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY THEATER COMPANY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBLESSED UNREST THEATRE INC: $47,500 · Arts & CultureIntersection for the Arts: $40,000 · Arts & CultureKingston Chamber Music Festival At The University of Rhode Island Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMIXED MAGIC THEATRE & CULTURAL EVENTS: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY: $90,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $40,000 · HealthTHE CHRIS ATWOOD FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · HealthPOSITIVE VIBE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthAutism Society of Texas: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · Health
Other$2,516,162Community Improvement$1,197,602Food & Nutrition$760,000Human Services$564,500Education$415,077Arts & Culture$335,000Health$197,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,065,102 over 6y, 71% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $205,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND INC: $190,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMAKE PROJECTS: $140,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND: $100,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY: $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Elden Street Players DBA NextStop Theatre Co: $75,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $62,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlpha-Omega Miracle Home Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCORNERSTONES INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVECINOS UNIDOS-NEIGHBORS UNITED INC: $60,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetKOMERA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY THEATER COMPANY: $50,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budget826 National Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAdopt-A-Native Elder: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBLESSED UNREST THEATRE INC: $47,500 over 4y, 24% of budgetLINK INCORPORATED: $45,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetCommittee for Dulles Community Outreach Inc: $42,500 over 5y, 37% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBEAUTIFUL DAY: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $37,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetARTS HERNDON INC: $35,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMPLIFIED IMPACT PARTNERS fka SAN DIEGO SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY TAX LAW PROJECT: $30,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISIONEROS DEL CAMINO INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHRIS ATWOOD FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKids R First: $27,500 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetFENWICK FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

The Community Foundat…The Rhode Island Comm…Dominion Energy Chari…United Way of the Nat…The Community Foundat…Philip L Graham Fund …Amica Companies Found…The Champlin Foundati…United Way of Rhode I…The Closet of the Gre…Td Charitable Foundat…Pga Tour Inc
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA21.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 161 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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