· Private foundation
Ltr Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LENNOXS LEGACY RESCUE INC | $5,500 |
| GSD RESCUE INDY | $5,000 |
| AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LAKELAND CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| OINKING ACRES FARM RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC | $5,000 |
| BASHOR CHILDREN'S HOME | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FERDINAND INC | $5,000 |
| DRESSAGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF INDIANAPOLIS DOGS OUTSIDE (FIDO) | $3,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOONE COUNTY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| THE FOUR LEGGED RANCH | $3,000 |
| WYANDOT COUNTY EQUINE RESCUE | $3,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TDTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +194%
- GRGSD RESCUE INDY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +112%
- LCLAKELAND CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- RCRILEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $2k
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k
- PTPAWS & THINK INCone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue 0%
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.
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
rescue rehab retraining and rehoming for homeless and neglected equine and canine
Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.
rescue rehab rehome medically needy dogs and cats
We take in dogs, cats, donkeys, horses, and goats and provide them with care and training to assist them in finding a forever home.
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oinking Acres Farm Rescue & Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws & Think 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 24 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GSD RESCUE INDY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HENDRICKS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ARK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR LEGGED RANCH ↗
- Who funds OINKING ACRES FARM RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds WAY TO BATTLE ↗
- Who funds LENNOXS LEGACY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds NARROW GATE HORSE RANCH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WYANDOT COUNTY EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN-ANIMAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LOW COST SPAY-NEUTER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS & THINK INC ↗
- Who funds HOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ltr Foundation Inc 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.
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