· Private foundation
William and Karla Laux Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOSEPH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MARY | $1,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF SAINT CECILIA | $1,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $500 |
| LIVING BREAD RADIO | $100 |
| SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT | $100 |
| MAKE-A-WISH | $100 |
| BIRTHCARE OF MEDINA COUNTY | $100 |
| ETERNAL WORLD TELEVISION NETWORK | $100 |
| URSULINE SISTERS OF CLEVELAND | $100 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100 |
| SORROWFUL MOTHER SHRINE | $100 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $100 |
| OAKS FAMILY CARE CENTER | $100 |
| LOYOLA RETREAT HOUSE | $50 |
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 (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 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
- MAMONROEVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +125%
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC4× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +72%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
- USURSULINE SISTERSone grant, 2018 · $1k
- USURSULINE SISTER OF CLEVELANDone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
To support the sanctity of human life and to share the love of christ and the hope of the gospel with women facing an unexpected pregnancy.
Our mission is to provide spiritual, emotional, educational and material support to expectant mothers and fathers who are faced with an un-planned pregnancy so they may successfully carry their babies to term, based on catholic social and…
To carry out the healing ministry of jesus christ by providing comprehensive primary medical and health care, recognizing the religious conscience protections of the individuals providing and receiving such care, focused on the health and…
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
To provide temporary housing and care
As a catholic ministry in the diocese of lincoln, our mission is to provide a sanctuary and experience which leads people to encounter jesus christ. through inspiring retreats and warm hospitality, we seek to transform and renew the…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Counseling individuals and families and foster care services.
Grounded in the gospel and in the culture of life of the catholic church, visition house is a home that welcomes women in crisis pregnancies in the spirit of elizabeth, who welcomed her cousin the virgin mary with awe-filled joy and true…
Caring for stray cats and dogs.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 40 Days for Life and the most unlike its peers is Michigan Ag Community Wildfire Relief Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 39 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 MONROEVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds OAKS FAMILY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Loyola Retreat House Inc ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BIRTHCARE OF MEDINA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE PREGNANCY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN AG COMMUNITY WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds Living Bread Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Hands Across Medina County Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED CITIZENS OF MEDINA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE OHIO STRAYS ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds STAY-A-WHILE CAT SHELTER INC ↗
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: Akron Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 William and Karla Laux Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.