· Private foundation
Laura Ludington Hollenbeck Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of LAURA LUDINGTON HOLLENBECK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,000 |
| ALBION COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| ALMA COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES | $2,250 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| A NEW LEAF | $2,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $2,000 |
| AMERICARES | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| DELTA COLLEGE PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
49 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- ACALMA COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +7%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +202%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MIDLAND PARKS & RECREATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
- MHMIDLAND HIGH SCHOOL DIVERSITY PROJEone grant, 2020 · $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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Improving the health of the people in our communities by providing quality, compassionate care to everyone, every time.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Recovery Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 69 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 ALMA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds United Way of Midland County ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Midland's Open Door ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Midland County ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
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: The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Mymichigan Health · The Mary C Currie Foundation · United Way of Midland County · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Ludington Family 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 Laura Ludington Hollenbeck 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.