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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 FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $625k
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rainforest Action Network$250,000
Common Cause Education Fund$200,000
Wellness In The Schools$200,000
Earthworks$200,000
Groundswell Fund$200,000
World Central Kitchen Inc$190,000
Naropa University$150,000
Committee to Bridge the Gap$117,500
Amazon Watch$110,000
Physicians for Social Responsibilit$103,500
Environmental Working Group$100,000
Sustainable Markets Foundation$100,000
Center for Biological Diversity$100,000
Public Health Institute$100,000
Abortion Care Network$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $976k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sun Valley Institute for Resilience: $90k → 7%805 UndocuFund: $35k → 10%North Coast Opportunities: $5k → 18%Mamatoto Village: $10k → 14%National Indian Child Welfare Assoc: $100k → 12%Sun Valley Institute for Resilience: $90k → 7%Mamatoto Village: $10k → 14%National Indian Child Welfare Assoc: $100k → 12%Sun Valley Institute for Resilience: $90k → 7%Mamatoto Village: $10k → 14%National Indian Child Welfare Assoc: $100k → 12%Sun Valley Institute for Resilience: $50k → 7%Latino Community Foundation: $35k → 10%Latino Community Foundation: $25k → 10%Latino Community Foundation: $25k → 10%Emergency Family Assistance Associa: $5k → 12%Go Campaign: $70k → 14%Go Campaign: $51k → 14%Go Campaign: $50k → 14%Go Campaign: $25k → 14%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

WA
ID
MT
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 83 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
50

Total granted

$20M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+13%

Still filing today

86%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • WI
    WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +204% · 59% of their budget
  • RA
    Rainforest Action Network
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +21%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • CR
    COLORADO RISING
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -99%
  • TH
    THE HIGHLAND FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -10% · 29% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $240k
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
6
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
9
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
10
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
11
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
12
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way; the most unlike its peers is The Momoko Ito 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

113 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. 113 of the 142 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/113
Grantees still filing
63/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $3,200,000 · HealthWELLNESS IN THE SCHOO…THE HIGHLAND FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · HealthTHE HIGHLAND FOUNDATI…ABORTION CARE NETWORK: $300,000 · HealthABORTION CARE NETWORKPublic Health Institute: $300,000 · HealthPublic Health Institu…FREEDOM COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $180,000 · Health+2 more: $115,000 · HealthPeople for the American Way Foundat: $450,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION: $535,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONGroundswell Fund: $350,000 · OtherBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $350,000 · Other+87 more: $7,951,506 · Other+87 moreRainforest Action Network: $1,050,000 · EnvironmentRainforest Act…Amazon Watch Inc: $435,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch I…NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWO…ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $225,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL …THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $215,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER …STAND: $205,000 · EnvironmentSTANDHONOR THE EARTH: $175,000 · EnvironmentHONOR THE EART…TREEPEOPLE INC: $165,000 · EnvironmentTREEPEOPLE INC+8 more: $235,000 · Environment+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES: $900,000 · EducationCOLORADO RI…INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $250,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS …THE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER: $110,000 · EducationFAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $86,400 · Education+4 more: $121,000 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $665,000 · InternationalWORLD CEN…PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $363,500 · InternationalPLAYING F…PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $283,500 · InternationalPHYSICIAN…ICAN FUND INC: $200,000 · InternationalICAN FUND…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $195,000 · InternationalCOOPERATI…Committee to Bridge the Gap: $117,500 · InternationalCommittee…+5 more: $110,000 · International+5 moreCOLORADO RISING: $500,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $300,000 · Community ImprovementINDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT: $205,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT VOTER FUND: $150,000 · Community ImprovementFOR GOOD PGH: $140,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $465 · Community ImprovementCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitEarthworks: $200,000 · Public Benefit
Health$4,595,000Other$9,636,506Environment$3,005,000Education$2,467,400International$1,934,500Community Improvement$1,295,465Public Benefit$1,200,000

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 budgetWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $3,200,000 over 6y, 59% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $1,050,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $1,000,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCOLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES: $900,000 over 3y, 87% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $665,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $535,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HIGHLAND FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $435,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $363,500 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $350,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $350,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $320,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $300,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetROMERO INSTITUTE: $300,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK: $300,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPublic Health Institute: $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $300,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $289,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $283,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $250,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetREWILD: $250,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $235,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $225,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute: $225,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT: $205,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetSTAND: $205,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetEarthworks: $200,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC: $200,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetICAN FUND INC: $200,000 over 4y, 86% of budgetGo Campaign: $196,306 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $195,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNaropa University: $190,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $180,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $175,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $165,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEMENT VOTER FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetOcean Voyages Institute: $150,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetFOR GOOD PGH: $140,000 over 5y, 22% 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.

Rsf Social Finance IncImpactassetsincThe Annenberg Foundat…PatagoniaorgThe California Endowm…California Community …The Rose Foundation f…Tides FoundationResources Legacy FundClif Family FoundationPledgeling FoundationCommunity Foundation …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ladybug Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ladybug Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • National Indian Child Welfare Association: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
30report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ladybug Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ladybug Foundation Inc 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 142 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home