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Ludington 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.

$400k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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100% of Ludington Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’20
1
’21
1
’22
2
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$400,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$400,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$600k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Ludington Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$395k50%
FY20221$330k0%
FY20211$435k0%
FY20201$365kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.4MPhilanthropy$750kEnvironment$75k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$1,450,00040%
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild$75,00014%

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About Ludington Inc

How much does Ludington Inc give?
Ludington Inc reported 1 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Ludington Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (64%), Philanthropy (33%), Environment (3%).
Who are Ludington Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($1.4M), Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild ($75k).
Does Ludington Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ludington Inc 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.
Where is Ludington Inc based?
Ludington Inc is based in VA.

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 3 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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