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Frank S and Julia M Ladner Family Foundation at a glance

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Frank S and Julia M Ladner Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
89
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$1.5MFood & Nutrition$785kReligion$753kInternational$425kPublic Safety & Disaster$345kHousing & Shelter$291kHuman Services$283kCivil Rights$261kOther$0
02FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k53 grants · $938k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
$15,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHN UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
BREAD FOR THE WORLD$300,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$300,000
COLLEGE OF ST BENEDICT$250,000
SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE$200,000
Individual grant recipient$200,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL$70,000
LAWRENCE CRAWFORD ASSOCIATION$70,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$70,000
453 JOHN LEWIS FREEDOM PARKWAY$60,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$60,000
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BELLEVILLE$60,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$60,000
PAX CRISTI USA$50,000
ST MARY -OF-THE-WOODS$50,000
02The need
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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 (FY23–24, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Mission House: $10k → 14%MISSION HOUSE: $10k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS: $30k → 14%Domestic Violence Solutions: $20k → 14%Domestic Violence Intervention Services: $8k → 15%Neighbor for Neighbor: $6k → 15%Family & Children's Services: $10k → 15%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
IA
IN
NJ
CA
MO
MD
KS
AR
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 55 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
29

Total granted

$3.8M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+6%

Still filing today

53%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalAnimalsFood & NutritionCivil RightsEducationOther
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

  • BF
    Bread For The World Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $600k · revenue +32%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $140k · revenue +1%
  • PC
    Pax Christi USA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • DA
    DETAIL AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
    one grant, 2021 · $1.7M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • TC
    THE CARTER CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +6%
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
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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2
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
3
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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7
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Asante

Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.

Health
10
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
12
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Mhe Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 113 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
29/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DETAIL AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST: $1,698,000 · OtherDETAIL AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTST JOHN UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · OtherST JOHN UNIVERSITYBread For The World Inc: $600,000 · OtherBread For The World IncCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $305,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherSISTERS OF PROVIDENCE OF SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS: $300,000 · Other+85 more: $2,670,500 · Other+85 moreAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $140,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $140,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $105,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $60,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $35,000 · InternationalCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $250,000 · EducationUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $30,000 · Human ServicesMission House Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $8,000 · Human Services+2 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyMARY'S PENCE: $60,000 · Civil RightsCATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsTULSA CASA INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsTRANSITION HOUSE: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$6,873,500International$480,000Education$295,000Human Services$182,000Philanthropy$100,000Civil Rights$78,000Housing & Shelter$65,000

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 budgetBread For The World Inc: $600,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPax Christi USA: $100,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE: $80,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMARY'S PENCE: $60,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe MHE Research Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTULSA EDUCARE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMission House Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Norman Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHERE TOMORROW INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Augustine Humane Society Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVINCENNES FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA CASA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Bread For The World Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
  • Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds Pax Christi USA ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds MARY'S PENCE ↗
  • Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗

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.

Mervin Bovaird Founda…Ralph and Frances McG…The Gelvin FoundationThe Anne and Henry Za…Grace & Franklin Bern…George Kaiser Family …Tulsa Community Found…The Robinson Foundati…The Oxley FoundationOklahoma Bar Foundati…Sanford P & Irene F B…Tulsa Area United Way
Mervin Bovaird FoundationOK19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Gelvin Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Robinson Foundation · The Oxley Foundation · Oklahoma Bar Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Tulsa Area United Way

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 Frank S and Julia M Ladner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank S and Julia M Ladner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Tulsa Educare Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Intervention Services: 15% of income from government
  • Family & Childrens Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to Frank S and Julia M Ladner Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 113 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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