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Ledwell Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$2.2MEducation$1.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$880kHealth$651kCommunity Improvement$486kArts & Culture$336kScience & Tech$327kPhilanthropy$76kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $282k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $687k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%King's Home: $500 → 7%Runnin' WJ Ranch: $78k → 19%Runnin' WJ Ranch: $35k → 19%Runnin' WJ Ranch: $25k → 19%Runnin' WJ Ranch: $22k → 19%Runnin' WJ Ranch: $10k → 19%For the Sake of One: $6k → 23%For the Sake of One: $6k → 23%For the Sake of One: $3k → 23%For the Sake of One: $1k → 23%Domestic Violence Prevention Inc: $5k → 19%The ArkLaTex 100 Club: $73k → 19%The ArkLaTex 100 Club: $72k → 19%Hospice of Texarkana Foundation: $5k → 19%Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: $5k → 19%Hospice of Texarkana Foundation: $5k → 19%Hospice of Texarkana Foundation: $5k → 19%Just Love and Kindness: $5k → 19%Just Love and Kindness: $5k → 19%Just Love and Kindness: $5k → 19%Just Love and Kindness: $5k → 19%Just Love and Kindness: $5k → 19%Hospice of Texarkana Foundation: $3k → 19%Hospice of Texarkana Foundation: $3k → 19%Hospice of Texarkana Foundation: $3k → 19%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

IL
NY
IN
PA
CA
MD
AR
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 51 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
22

Total granted

$7.6M
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+5%

Still filing today

53%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHealthPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • WR
    WATERSPRINGS RANCH INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +55%
  • AR
    AR-TX REDI
    6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +30%
  • AW
    AMANDA W LOCKEY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +102% · 81% of their budget

Funded once

  • JL
    JENI LYNN MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +227%
  • FA
    Flower Acres Baptist Church
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • DA
    DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Habitat for Humanity of Texarkana Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Grace House Texarkana Inc

Grace House exists to rescue and advocate for women and families at risk.

Housing & Shelter
3
Senior Citizens Services of Texarkana

Support Services for the elderly through nutritional assistance

Human Services
4
Texoma Family Shelter

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.

Human Services
5
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
6
Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
8
West Texas Hero Homes Inc

Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.

Housing & Shelter
9
Texas Doula Association
Health
10
University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana Foundation Inc

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.

Unclassified
11
Texas Christian Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
12
Texas Oilfield Angels

To provide assistance and support to oilfield workers and their families when they are injured while performing their job duties.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is For the Sake of One; 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.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WATERSPRINGS RANCH INC: $1,955,786 · OtherWATERSPRINGS RANCH INCTexas AM University - Texarkana: $1,091,500 · OtherTexas AM University - TexarkanaIndividual grant recipient: $868,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Arlakatex 100 Club: $326,736 · OtherThe Arlakatex 100 ClubTRAHC Women for the Arts: $261,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $215,000 · Other+65 more: $1,257,050 · Other+65 moreTHE FIRST RESPONSE TEAM OF AMERICA CORP: $730,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE FIRST …Runnin WJ Therapeutic Center Inc: $170,000 · Human ServicesArklatex 100 Club: $144,632 · Human ServicesJUST LOVE & KINDESS: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF TEXARKANA FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Human ServicesFOR THE SAKE OF ONE: $15,500 · Human Services+3 more: $10,500 · Human ServicesAR-TX REDI: $300,000 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET TEXARKANA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FOR A NEW DOWNTOWN: $63,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $6,000 · Community ImprovementAMANDA W LOCKEY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTEXARKANA VOLUNTEER SERVICES BUREAU INC DBA HANDS ON TEXARKANA: $9,900 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyLeadership Texarkana: $94,800 · Public BenefitLARRY SAULS AND FRIENDS: $17,500 · Public Benefit+1 more: $2,000 · Public BenefitTEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · EducationTYLER IND SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $4,500 · EducationTEXARKANA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Education
Other$5,975,472Public Safety & Disaster$730,000Human Services$388,632Community Improvement$369,000Philanthropy$212,900Public Benefit$114,300Education$93,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWATERSPRINGS RANCH INC: $1,955,786 over 6y, 24% of budgetTHE FIRST RESPONSE TEAM OF AMERICA CORP: $730,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetAR-TX REDI: $300,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetAMANDA W LOCKEY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 81% of budgetRunnin WJ Therapeutic Center Inc: $170,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetArklatex 100 Club: $144,632 over 2y, 35% of budgetLeadership Texarkana: $94,800 over 6y, 18% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INC: $94,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetTEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetMAIN STREET TEXARKANA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FOR A NEW DOWNTOWN: $63,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetNORTHEAST TEXAS CASA INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $48,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTexarkana United Soccer Association: $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $35,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetJUST LOVE & KINDESS: $25,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetTEMPLE MEMORIAL PEDIATRIC CENTER INC: $23,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE OF TEXARKANA FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLARRY SAULS AND FRIENDS: $17,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFOR THE SAKE OF ONE: $15,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetJENI LYNN MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRandy Sams Outreach Shelter: $12,700 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTEXARKANA VOLUNTEER SERVICES BUREAU INC DBA HANDS ON TEXARKANA: $9,900 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DOUBLE D FOUNDATION INC: $6,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJunior League of Texarkana Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetST JAMES DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDomestic Violence Prevention Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFearfully and Wonderfully Made Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTYLER IND SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTEXARKANA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTEXARKANA RESOURCES FOR DISABLEDIN: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRUSH ENTERPRISES FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FUND FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Texarkana Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKings Home Inc: $500 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Patterson Troike Foun…The Bobbie a Atkinson…Kelley & Morgan Famil…Wayne H Garrison Char…Cabe Cook FoundationEast Texas Communitie…United Way of Greater…The Scott FoundationVasco McCoy Jr Founda…The Morriss Family Fo…American Electric Pow…Yates Foundation
Patterson Troike Foundation IncTX43.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 92 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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