· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $282k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $687k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas AM University - Texarkana | $1,012,500 |
| Watersprings Ranch | $433,679 |
| Individual grant recipient | $205,000 |
| First Response Team of America | $120,000 |
| Amanda W Lockey Foundation | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $85,000 |
| The ArkLaTex 100 Club | $71,537 |
| Restoration of Hope | $55,000 |
| AR-TX REDI | $50,000 |
| Literacy Council Bowie Miller Count | $42,500 |
| Texarkana Regional Arts Humanities | $35,600 |
| Alzheimers Alliance Tri-State | $35,000 |
| Pleasant Grove ISD Educational Foun | $29,000 |
| Runnin' WJ Ranch | $22,000 |
| City of Texarkana AR | $21,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $389k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 19 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; $171k 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
- WRWATERSPRINGS RANCH INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +55%
- ARAR-TX REDI6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +30%
- AWAMANDA W LOCKEY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +102% · 81% of their budget
Funded once
- JLJENI LYNN MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +227%
- FAFlower Acres Baptist Churchone grant, 2020 · $10k
- UPUS Police Canine Region 20one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Habitat for Humanity of Texarkana is devoted to making the dream of home-ownership true for low income families. We believe in a hand up, not a hand out, so partner families provide sweat equity into the building of their homes and join a…
Grace House exists to rescue and advocate for women and families at risk.
Support Services for the elderly through nutritional assistance
Feed and house homeless families, counsel and help them prepare for job interviews, assist in completing forms for govt assistance, and provide rent/utilities assistance. Coordinate with local food bank.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.
The primary purpose of the University of Arkansas Hope - Texarkana Foundation is to advance higher education by securing private financial support for all units and activities of the University of Arkansas Hope Texarkana.
Texas Christian Foundations mission is to mobilize resources by inspiring biblical generosity and educating Texans on ways their generosity can impact their community, Texas and the world.
To provide assistance and support to oilfield workers and their families when they are injured while performing their job duties.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is For the Sake of One and the most unlike its peers is Angel Fund Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 92 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 WATERSPRINGS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST RESPONSE TEAM OF AMERICA CORP ↗
- Who funds AR-TX REDI ↗
- Who funds AMANDA W LOCKEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Runnin WJ Therapeutic Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Arklatex 100 Club ↗
- Who funds Leadership Texarkana ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET TEXARKANA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FOR A NEW DOWNTOWN ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS CASA INC ↗
- Who funds Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Texarkana United Soccer Association ↗
- Who funds TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JUST LOVE & KINDESS ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE MEMORIAL PEDIATRIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF TEXARKANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LARRY SAULS AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds FOR THE SAKE OF ONE ↗
- Who funds JENI LYNN MINISTRIES ↗
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: 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
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 Ledwell Family 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.