North Carolina · Private foundation
Luddy Charitable 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 41
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $61M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Luddy Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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 | 1 | $3.0M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $2.0M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $1.1M | 60% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $2.6M | 22% |
| FY2017 | 41 | $3.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thales Academy | $5,000,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Aquinas College | $750,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh | $750,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Barton College | $510,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Spectator Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Belmont Abbey College Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 1% |
| La Salle University | $400,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Joseph Catholic Church | $400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Spitzer-Magis Center FKA Magis Institute | $200,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Pastoral Support Services Inc | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Luddy Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Luddy Charitable Foundation
- How much does Luddy Charitable Foundation give?
- Luddy Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $3,000,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Luddy Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (62%), Religion (15%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Luddy Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Thales Academy ($5.0M), Aquinas College ($750k), Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh ($750k).
- Does Luddy Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Luddy Charitable 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 Luddy Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, Charles Koch Foundation.
- Where is Luddy Charitable Foundation based?
- Luddy Charitable Foundation is based in NC.
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