Washington · Private foundation
Ludlow Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $595k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Ludlow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $40k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $40k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $20k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $41k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $33k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $28k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $28k | 55% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acres of Diamonds | $18,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Rebuilding Together Thurston County | $16,350 | 7 | 3% |
| Katie's Handprint | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Farms for Life | $13,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Wasilla Area Seniors Inc | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Upper Valley Mend | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Interfaith Works | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| West Seattle Food Bank | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Safeplace | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty | $6,850 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acres of Diamonds | $18,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Rebuilding Together Thurston County | $16,350 | 7 | 3% |
| Katie's Handprint | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Farms for Life | $13,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Wasilla Area Seniors Inc | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Upper Valley Mend | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Interfaith Works | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| West Seattle Food Bank | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Safeplace | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty | $6,850 | 3 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Alaska | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Homes First | $6,350 | 2 | 0% |
| Kids Kupboard | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vine Maple Place | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Walla Walla Alliance for the Homeless | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Northwest Harvest Emm | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| West Seattle Helpline | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Bangsund Dwelling Place Nfp | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative | $2,350 | 1 | 0% |
| South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity | $2,350 | 1 | 0% |
| Beans Cafe Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| YWCA of Olympia | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sidewalk | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gridiron Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United States Catholic Conference | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Panza | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ludlow 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: The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · The Norcliffe Foundation · Thurston County Economic Development Cou · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Medina Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Dawkins Charitable Trust · Multicare Health System · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · United Way of Thurston County
How this is measured
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About Ludlow Foundation
- How much does Ludlow Foundation give?
- Ludlow Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ludlow Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (40%), Food & Nutrition (24%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are Ludlow Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Acres of Diamonds ($19k), Rebuilding Together Thurston County ($16k), Katie's Handprint ($13k).
- Does Ludlow Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ludlow Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ludlow Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound, The Norcliffe Foundation, Thurston County Economic Development Cou.
- Where is Ludlow Foundation based?
- Ludlow Foundation is based in WA.
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