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Ledbetter Family Foundation at a glance

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Ledbetter Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.0MHealth$944kHuman Services$607kInternational$502kAnimals$210kArts & Culture$182kEnvironment$150kScience & Tech$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CONFORMATION HORSE ASSOC$30,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$25,000
AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOC$25,000
AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE YOUTH FOUNDA$1,500
CIEE$1,500
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 (FY18–20, $306k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $165k → 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $91k → 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $50k → 11%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

ME
ID
MI
NY
NJ
CA
CO
MO
MD
AR
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 21 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
15

Total granted

$2.1M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+22%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TG
    THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $500k · revenue +259%
  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    4× · 2017–2020 · $356k · revenue +145%
  • TG
    THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $306k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SD
    SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $947k
  • PA
    PATIENT ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • RA
    RANGER AIRFIELD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -36%
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
American Angus Association

To provide programs, services, technology and leadership to enhance the genetics of the angus breed, broaden its influence within the beef industry and expand the market for superior tasting, high-quality angus beef worldwide.

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2
National Reining Horse Association

The corporation is formed to promte and encourage public interest in agricultural and ranching through reining horse shows and programs; to develop standards and performance and judging of reinging horses; to encourage the development and…

Food & Nutrition
3
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
4
The Jockey Club

The organization is dedicated to the improvement of thoroughbred breeding and racing. It fulfills that mandate by serving many segments of the industry through its subsidiary companies and by providing support to a wide range of industry…

Recreation & Sports
5
American Quarter Horse Foundation

The foundation connects horses and people through charitable giving to support programs that preserve our horses legacy and further the well-being of the american quarter horse family.

Animals
6
American Public Health Association

To provide optimal, equitable health and well-being for all.

Health
7
California Thoroughbred Horsemen's Foundation Inc

The organization provides health and welfare benefits to individuals and their families who work in occupations directly related to the care of thoroughbred horses in california.

Membership Benefit
8
Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame

The harness racing museum & hall of fame is dedicated to comprehensive, active and authoritative support and promotion of the standardbred racing through documentation and preservation of the history and traditions of this american-born…

Arts & Culture
9
Air Transport Association of America Inc

Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…

—
10
World Ranch Horse Association
Animals
11
National Cutting Horse Association

The ncha promotes and celebrates the cutting horse, whose origin on western ranches allows us to support ranching and its western heritage. by establishing rules for the conduct of cutting horse shows, ncha strives to give cutters a level…

—
12
National Thoroughbred Racing Association Inc

The ntra is a broadly defined membership association that is charged with increasing the popularity, welfare and integrity of thoroughbred racing.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children; the most unlike its peers is Ranger Airfield 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

25 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. 25 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND: $947,100 · OtherSCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUNDPATIENT ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherPATIENT ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATIONUPBRING: $200,000 · OtherUPBRINGPATIENT ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherPAN FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherEmbrace Waiting Children Inc: $100,000 · OtherREDF IMPACT INVESTING FUND: $100,000 · OtherDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · Other+20 more: $350,400 · Other+20 moreTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $355,654 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RI…Texas Health Resources: $100,000 · HealthTexas Health Reso…Texas Health Resources Foundation: $100,000 · HealthTexas Health Reso…AEROANGEL INC: $62,760 · HealthAEROANGEL INCTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GLOBAL OR…THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $306,000 · Human ServicesRANGER AIRFIELD FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PAINT HORSE FOUNDATION: $30,400 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentCENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · Science & Tech
Other$2,197,500Health$618,414Philanthropy$500,000Human Services$306,000Arts & Culture$181,900Environment$150,000Science & Tech$150,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $500,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $355,654 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $306,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPATIENT ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Health Resources: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREDF IMPACT INVESTING FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetEmbrace Waiting Children Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAEROANGEL INC: $62,760 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetTHE APPALOOSA HALTER FUTURITY: $42,500 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PAINT HORSE FOUNDATION: $30,400 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetBLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetAppaloosa Horse Club: $26,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN PAINT HORSE ASSOCIATION: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLamb & Lion Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIEE Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ledbetter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ledbetter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report 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.

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 39 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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