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Ldb 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $409k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHTSTONE | $134,000 |
| GEORGIA CYCLING | $100,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| PACE ACADEMY | $75,413 |
| SORBA | $30,000 |
| TRELLIS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| REHAB AND BEYOND | $7,500 |
| OPERATION RAMBO | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST SORBA YPT CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $500 |
| SWIM ACROSS AMERICA | $100 |
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 (FY19–23, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- PAPACE ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +53%
- JPJUST PEOPLE INC4× · 2017–2022 · $943k · revenue +89%
Vanderbilt University4× · 2018–2024 · $330k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- AHARIZONA HS CYCLING LEAGUEone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CHCOLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUEone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +9%
- NGNORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSNone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ansley Park Beautification Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% 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 19% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 56 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 PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds JUST PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Washington Student Cycling League ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE SCHENCK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds TRELLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REHAB AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds ANSLEY PARK BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
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 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Ldb 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.
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.
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