· Private foundation
Uncle Larrys Fund
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| JACK MILLER CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE PREPARATORY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATIO | $25,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE PRESCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| INNTER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $20,000 |
| HARLEM ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| THE PINE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CT RIVER MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| ORCHESTRA LUMOS | $10,000 |
| REVOLUTIONARY SPACES | $10,000 |
| GREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| EDUCATION ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| MISSOULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS ARTS CRAFTS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 5% of Uncle Larrys Fund’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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- FOFriends of Christ in India Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +1%
- RSREVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +24%
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC4× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- STST THOMAS MOORE CHOIR SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $25k
- SCST CATHERINES CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $25k
- CICommunities In Schools of Greenbrier County Incone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +23%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 42 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 117 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 INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Friends of Christ in India Inc ↗
- Who funds COCO POINT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC ↗
- Who funds CORE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ARTS GUILD ↗
- Who funds PREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Boca Grande Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Communities In Schools of Greenbrier County Inc ↗
- Who funds JUST FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Pine School Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
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: H L Thompson Jr Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · George Foundation Inc · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 organization Uncle Larrys Fund 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.
- Revolutionary Spaces Inc — 20% of income from government
- Orchestra Lumos Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- The Pine School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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.