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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.

$498k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$134,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$11M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Ldb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$498k38%
FY202316$680k31%
FY20227$735k14%
FY202114$930k57%
FY202011$747k9%
FY201926$661k65%
FY201815$385k47%
FY201712$292kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.3MHuman Services$990kHealth$293kYouth Development$164kReligion$143kCommunity Improvement$93kArts & Culture$23kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pace Academy Inc$1,334,98981%
Just People Inc$942,66745%
Vanderbilt University$330,00040%
Georgia Cycling Inc$286,9002n/a
Brightstone Inc$264,64433%
Colorado High School Cycling League$100,00018%
Washington Student Cycling League$50,000133%
Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville$50,00040%
The Schenck School$32,50030%
Bright Futures$22,50031%
Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ldb Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPace Academy Inc: $1,334,989 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetJust People Inc: $942,667 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $330,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBrightstone Inc: $264,644 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetColorado High School Cycling League: $100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetWashington Student Cycling League: $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetMontgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Schenck School: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBright Futures: $22,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThistle Farms Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMental Health Association of Middle Tennessee: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTrellis Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $14,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMountainfilm: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAnimal Legal Defense Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOceana Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehab and Beyond Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetAnsley Park Beautification Foundation: $7,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetUniversity of the South: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBearings Bike Shop Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Rambo: $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFirst Descents: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $2,260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree Fab'Rik Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMissions Development International: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFurkids Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 32.

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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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to Ldb Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ldb Foundation 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.

About Ldb Foundation

How much does Ldb Foundation give?
Ldb Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $497,513 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ldb Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Recreation & Sports (26%), Human Services (20%).
Who are Ldb Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pace Academy Inc ($1.3M), Just People Inc ($943k), Vanderbilt University ($330k).
Does Ldb Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ldb Foundation 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 Ldb Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, J Bulow Campbell Foundation, The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation.
Where is Ldb Foundation based?
Ldb Foundation is based in GA.

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 56 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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