Texas · Private foundation
Ledwell Family 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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,012,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 52
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Ledwell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 58 | $2.5M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $1.7M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $993k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $1.0M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $738k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $914k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watersprings Ranch Inc | $1,955,786 | 6 | 24% |
| The First Response Team of America Corp | $730,000 | 6 | 34% |
| Ar-Tx Redi | $300,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Amanda W Lockey Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 81% |
| Runnin WJ Therapeutic Center Inc | $170,000 | 5 | 16% |
| Arklatex 100 Club | $144,632 | 2 | 35% |
| Leadership Texarkana | $94,800 | 6 | 18% |
| Opportunities Inc | $94,000 | 5 | 31% |
| Texarkana College Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Main Street Texarkana Business Organization for a New Downtown | $63,000 | 5 | 19% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ledwell Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Patterson Troike Foundation Inc · The Bobbie a Atkinson Foundation · Kelley & Morgan Families Foundation · Wayne H Garrison Charitable Tr · Cabe Cook Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · United Way of Greater Texarkana Inc · The Scott Foundation · Vasco McCoy Jr Foundation · The Morriss Family Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Yates Foundation
How this is measured
About Ledwell Family Foundation
- How much does Ledwell Family Foundation give?
- Ledwell Family Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $2,527,816 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 52 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Ledwell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Education (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
- Who are Ledwell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Watersprings Ranch Inc ($2.0M), The First Response Team of America Corp ($730k), Ar-Tx Redi ($300k).
- Does Ledwell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ledwell Family 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 Ledwell Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patterson Troike Foundation Inc, The Bobbie a Atkinson Foundation, Kelley & Morgan Families Foundation.
- Where is Ledwell Family Foundation based?
- Ledwell Family Foundation is based in TX.
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