· Private foundation
Ladd & Katherine Hancher Library Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k14 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $361k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Stella Hill Memorial Library | $30,000 |
| Blanco County So Library District | $27,927 |
| Johnson City Library | $26,442 |
| City of Wolfforth Library | $24,438 |
| Mitchell County Public Library | $21,925 |
| Muenster Public Library | $20,000 |
| Jennie Trent Dew Library | $17,907 |
| Rio Grande City Public Library | $17,462 |
| Gilbreath Memorial Library | $15,120 |
| Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library | $14,500 |
| Bandera Public Library | $13,400 |
| Quitman Public Library | $13,000 |
| Lakehills Area Library | $12,700 |
| Onalaska Public Library | $12,020 |
| Kaufman County Library | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
To own, operate and maintain a public library and all facilities necessary or appropriate thereto to service the needs of people in and around Menard, Texas.
The purpose of the organization is to provide library services to the residents of the harper community, thus facilitating the growth of knowledge in the community.
Provide library services including books, computerized library services, literacy/learning programs for all ages to the citizens of Rhome and surrounding areas of Wise County Texas.
To provide library services to the approximately 2,500 residents of eldorado in schleicher county, texas.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ladd & Katherine Hancher Library Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ladd & Katherine Hancher Library Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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