How much does Uncle Larrys Fund give?

Uncle Larrys Fund reported 48 grants totaling $283,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Uncle Larrys Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Arts & Culture (31%), International (8%).

Who are Uncle Larrys Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc ($170k), Friends of Christ in India Inc ($75k), Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools ($75k).

Does Uncle Larrys Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Uncle Larrys Fund 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 Uncle Larrys Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include H L Thompson Jr Family Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, George Foundation Inc.

Where is Uncle Larrys Fund based?

Uncle Larrys Fund is based in FL.

Uncle Larrys Fund

Uncle Larrys Fund at a glance

· 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.

$284k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$830kArts & Culture$610kInternational$155kHuman Services$118kReligion$92kRecreation & Sports$43kAnimals$30kCrime & Legal$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k33 grants · $34k
$10k–50k15 grants · $250k

$1,100

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE PREPARATORY FOUNDATION	$25,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATIO	$25,000
BOCA GRANDE PRESCHOOL INC	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$25,000
JACK MILLER CENTER	$25,000
INNTER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND	$20,000
CT RIVER MUSEUM	$15,000
THE PINE SCHOOL	$15,000
HARLEM ACADEMY	$15,000
ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS ARTS CRAFTS	$10,000
MISSOULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$10,000
EDUCATION ALLIANCE	$10,000
ORCHESTRA LUMOS	$10,000
GREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY	$10,000
REVOLUTIONARY SPACES	$10,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Uncle Larrys Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Uncle Larrys Fundlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 7.2% 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 73 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+23%

Still filing today

55%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

FO
Friends of Christ in India Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +1%
RS
REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +24%
TP
THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
4× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +21%

Funded once

ST
ST THOMAS MOORE CHOIR SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $25k
SC
ST CATHERINES CATHOLIC CHURCH
one grant, 2017 · $25k
CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DESOTO CTY
one grant, 2020 · $20k

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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education

The Peak School

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…

Education

Wheaton College

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…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Darrow School

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…

Education

Lowell School

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…

Education

The York School

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…

Education

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Washington & Jefferson College

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.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation; 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.

05the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 117 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

63/63

Grantees still filing

45/63

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,236,370Education$252,750Arts & Culture$190,700Philanthropy$100,050International$87,600Youth Development$51,000Human Services$24,730

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

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.

H L Thompson Jr Family FoundationOH17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Uncle Larrys Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Uncle Larrys Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home