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Ludlow Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASILLA AREA SENIORS | $8,000 |
| TIERRA LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY MEND | $5,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER THURSTON COUNTY | $4,000 |
| HOMES FIRST | $4,000 |
| GRUB | $4,000 |
| ACRES OF DIAMONDS | $2,500 |
| VINE MAPLE PLACE | $2,500 |
| PANZA (NEW HORIZON COMMUNITIES) | $2,000 |
| BEANS CAFE | $2,000 |
| GRIDIRON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- AOAcres of Diamonds6× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +242%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER THURSTON COUNTY7× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +801%
- FFFarms for Life5× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- KHKATIE'S HANDPRINTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue +101%
- MVMAT-SU VALLEY INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK (FAMILY PROMISE)one grant, 2021 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
At Solid Ground, we work passionately to end poverty and build a more equitable community. Our services support people experiencing poverty by helping them achieve stability and expand their skills to realize their dreams. And that's just…
Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
Provide basic goods and services for unsheltered and poor
Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.
The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.
Queen Anne Helpline prevents homelessness and bolsters access to the foundational resources we all need to thrive.
Through a fiscally responsible and multi-faceted approach, north west housing partnership nwhp promotes public and private partnerships that create and preserve cost-effective quality diverse housing for low to moderate-income residents…
The organization partners with hard working people in need of affordable housing, by building and renovating houses in an effort to develop permanent, affordable homes for low income families within Skagit County. We also provide volunteer…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and the most unlike its peers is Farms for Life. 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 48 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 Acres of Diamonds ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER THURSTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KATIE'S HANDPRINT ↗
- Who funds Wasilla Area Seniors Inc ↗
- Who funds Farms for Life ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY MEND ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SAFEPLACE ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Alaska ↗
- Who funds HOMES FIRST ↗
- Who funds Kids Kupboard ↗
- Who funds GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Helpline ↗
- Who funds THE BANGSUND DWELLING PLACE NFP ↗
- Who funds Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PUGET SOUND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Beans Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Olympia ↗
- Who funds Sidewalk ↗
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: 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
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 Ludlow Foundation 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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