How much does Ladybug Foundation Inc give?

Ladybug Foundation Inc reported 65 grants totaling $4,391,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 82 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Ladybug Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Health (19%), Civil Rights (10%).

Who are Ladybug Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Wellness in the Schools Inc ($3.2M), Rainforest Action Network ($1.1M), University of Rochester ($1.0M).

Does Ladybug Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ladybug Foundation Inc 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 Ladybug Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rsf Social Finance Inc, Impactassetsinc, The Annenberg Foundation.

Where is Ladybug Foundation Inc based?

Ladybug Foundation Inc is based in CO.

Foundation Dossiers

Colorado · Private foundation

Ladybug Foundation Inc

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.

$4.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 65
Grants FY2024: 76
Organizations funded FY2023: 12%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $250,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 82; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 17
Total assets, FY2024: $42M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Ladybug Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	65	$4.4M	9%
FY2023	76	$4.5M	12%
FY2022	82	$4.5M	38%
FY2021	70	$4.4M	70%
FY2020	41	$3.6M	85%
FY2019	9	$2.1M	n/a

99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$6.6MHealth$4.6MCivil Rights$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.5MEducation$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.4MInternational$1.1MCommunity Improvement$1.0MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wellness in the Schools Inc	$3,200,000	6	59%
Rainforest Action Network	$1,050,000	6	3%
University of Rochester	$1,000,000	2	0%
Common Cause Education Fund	$1,000,000	6	2%
Colorado Rising for Communities	$900,000	3	87%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$665,000	5	0%
Colorado Rising	$500,000	1	n/a
The Highland Foundation Inc	$500,000	1	29%
Amazon Watch Inc	$435,000	6	6%
Playing for Change Foundation	$363,500	5	5%

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All grantees of Ladybug Foundation Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wellness in the Schools Inc	$3,200,000	6	59%
Rainforest Action Network	$1,050,000	6	3%
University of Rochester	$1,000,000	2	0%
Common Cause Education Fund	$1,000,000	6	2%
Colorado Rising for Communities	$900,000	3	87%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$665,000	5	0%
Colorado Rising	$500,000	1	n/a
The Highland Foundation Inc	$500,000	1	29%
Amazon Watch Inc	$435,000	6	6%
Playing for Change Foundation	$363,500	5	5%
Groundswell Fund	$350,000	4	1%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence	$350,000	5	1%
Sun Valley Institute for Resilience	$320,000	4	18%
People for the American Way	$300,000	2	1%
National Indian Child Welfare Association	$300,000	3	3%
Voto Latino Foundation Inc	$300,000	3	1%
Romero Institute	$300,000	5	3%
Abortion Care Network	$300,000	3	2%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc	$300,000	3	0%
Public Health Institute	$300,000	4	0%
First Nations Development Institute	$300,000	5	1%
Movement Strategy Center	$300,000	3	0%
Core Community Organized Relief Effort	$289,000	2	0%
Physicians for Social Responsibility	$283,500	4	3%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc	$250,000	3	0%
Native American Rights Fund Inc	$250,000	5	0%
Indigenous Environmental Network	$250,000	4	3%
Rewild	$250,000	4	0%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc	$235,000	5	0%
Environmental Working Group	$225,000	3	1%
The 5 Gyres Institute	$225,000	4	8%
The Surfrider Foundation	$215,000	3	1%
Indian Country Grassroots Support	$205,000	5	15%
Stand	$205,000	4	1%
People for the American Way Foundation	$200,000	1	4%
Earthworks	$200,000	1	2%
Hormel Historic Home Inc	$200,000	1	29%
Ican Fund Inc	$200,000	4	86%
Go Campaign	$196,306	4	6%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc	$195,000	2	0%
Naropa University	$190,000	2	0%
Freedom Community Clinic Inc	$180,000	3	17%
Honor the Earth	$175,000	4	1%
Treepeople Inc	$165,000	4	0%
Movement Voter Fund	$150,000	1	100%
Young Musicians Foundation	$150,000	3	4%
Ocean Voyages Institute	$150,000	4	10%
For Good Pgh	$140,000	5	22%
Committee to Bridge the Gap	$117,500	1	34%
Inner City Law Center	$115,000	4	0%
The Watershed Research & Training Center	$110,000	4	1%
DRALA MOUNTAIN CENTER Formerly Shambhala Mountain Center	$100,000	1	3%
Heal Food Alliance	$100,000	2	n/a
Satyana Institute	$100,000	4	10%
Safecast Global Inc	$100,000	2	n/a
Red Feather Development Group	$95,000	5	2%
Family Life Academy Charter Schools	$86,400	2	0%
The California Desert Land Conservancy	$80,000	3	2%
Last Prisoner Project	$75,000	3	1%
Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation	$70,000	4	7%
Agriculture and Land Based Training Association	$65,000	3	1%
Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment Program Inc	$60,000	2	1%
Hispanics in Philanthropy	$60,000	2	0%
Pie Ranch	$55,000	2	1%
Holistic Homestead	$55,000	5	38%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Helpline Youth Counseling Inc	$50,000	1	1%
The Momoko Ito Foundation	$50,000	1	13%
Johns Hopkins University	$50,000	1	0%
Milpa	$50,000	3	1%
Food Research & Action Center	$50,000	1	0%
Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence	$50,000	1	2%
Wild Farm Alliance	$45,000	3	8%
Los Angeles Waterkeeper	$45,000	2	0%
Living Lands Trust	$45,000	4	1%
Play Mountain Place	$40,200	3	2%
Y on Earth Community	$40,000	4	18%
Greater Good Charities	$40,000	3	0%
805 Undocufund	$35,000	1	7%
Winnarainbow Inc Dba Camp Winnarainbow	$30,000	2	1%
Waipa Foundation	$30,000	4	1%
Wild Bear Nature Center	$30,000	3	1%
Mamatoto Village Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Global Project Against Hate and Extremism Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute Inc	$25,000	3	1%
Community Food Share Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Justice for Migrant Women	$25,000	1	0%
Bionutrient Food Association Inc	$25,000	3	2%
Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant	$25,000	1	3%
Mending the Sacred Hoop	$25,000	1	5%
Tibet Fund Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Equal Justice Initiative	$25,000	1	0%
Los Angeles Lgbt Center	$20,000	1	0%
Biodynamic Association Inc	$20,000	2	2%
The Ocean Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
United Nations Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Trevor Project Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Razom Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Peak Abundance	$10,000	1	3%
Diving With a Purpose and Development Group Inc	$10,000	1	4%
Mendocino Land Trust	$10,000	2	0%
Slow Money Institute Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Nova Ukraine	$10,000	1	0%
Friends of Ballona Wetlands	$7,000	1	1%
A More Balanced World Inc	$6,000	1	2%
The Outdoor Circle	$5,000	1	2%
Focusing Philanthropy Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Joshua Tree National Park Association	$5,000	1	0%
North Coast Opportunities Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Emergency Family Assistance Association	$5,000	1	0%
Friends of the Festival of Lights	$1,000	1	n/a
McE Social Capital	$465	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Ladybug Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 108.

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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.

Rsf Social Finance IncCA38.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Annenberg Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The California Endowment · California Community Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Tides Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Clif Family Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County

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.

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About Ladybug Foundation Inc

How much does Ladybug Foundation Inc give?: Ladybug Foundation Inc reported 65 grants totaling $4,391,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 82 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Ladybug Foundation Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Health (19%), Civil Rights (10%).
Who are Ladybug Foundation Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Wellness in the Schools Inc ($3.2M), Rainforest Action Network ($1.1M), University of Rochester ($1.0M).
Does Ladybug Foundation Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ladybug Foundation Inc 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 Ladybug Foundation Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rsf Social Finance Inc, Impactassetsinc, The Annenberg Foundation.
Where is Ladybug Foundation Inc based?: Ladybug Foundation Inc is based in CO.