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Viola a Laski Charitable Trust at a glance

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Viola a Laski Charitable Trust

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$108k
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k7 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTA SCIENCE FESTIVAL$35,000
TEMPLE AKIBA$18,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$17,000
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS$15,000
ST LOUIS ACTORS' STUDIO$5,000
ATREK EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION (LEVERAGE DANCE THEATRE)$5,000
ARTSCOPE - SOUTH CITY OPEN STUDIO AND GALLERY$3,000
ROLLINS COLLEGE$2,500
THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION$2,500
CLAYTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,500
SITEMAN CANCER CENTERWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$2,000
02The need
02

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 (FY18–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $15k → 21%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.
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.
03Its field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCIENCE ATL INC D/B/A ATLANTA SCIENCE FESTIVAL INC: $35,000 · Science & TechSCIENCE ATL INC D/B/A ATLANTA SCIENC…TEMPLE AKIBA OF CULVER CITY: $18,000 · OtherTEMPLE AKIBA OF CULVER CITYST LOUIS ACTORS' STUDIO: $5,000 · OtherST LOUIS ACTORS' STUDIOATREK EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $5,000 · OtherATREK EDUCATIONAL CORPORATIONARTSCOPE - SOUTH CITY OPEN STUDIO AND GALLERY: $3,000 · OtherARTSCOPE - SOUTH CITY OPEN STUDIO …SITEMAN CANCER CENTERWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · OtherSITEMAN CANCER CENTERWASHINGTON UN…Northwestern University: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern Univ…INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $15,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL I…THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureROLLINS COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationClayton Education Foundation: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Science & Tech$35,000Other$33,000Recreation & Sports$17,000Human Services$15,000Arts & Culture$2,500Education$2,500Philanthropy$2,500

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 budgetSCIENCE ATL INC D/B/A ATLANTA SCIENCE FESTIVAL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATREK EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Viola a Laski Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Viola a Laski Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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.

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 11 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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