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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.

$275k
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$360kArts & Culture$324kScience & Tech$82kHuman Services$77kYouth Development$64kHealth$28kHousing & Shelter$20kEnvironment$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k60 grants · $188k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA$45,000
EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES$15,000
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA$15,000
WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF$12,000
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF$7,500
FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
MIGHTY WRITERS$5,000
PHILADELPHIA ROBOTICS COALITION INC$5,000
THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA$5,000
BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$5,000
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL$5,000
ASAP AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES$5,000
WEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN$5,000
PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR BIOMEDICAL RESE$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $4k → 9%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $4k → 9%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $4k → 9%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $4k → 9%PROJECT HOME: $4k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $4k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $4k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $4k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIESINC: $3k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIESINC: $3k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIESINC: $2k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$996k · 75 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

75 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
31

Total granted

$996k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+28%

Still filing today

76%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • HP
    HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $49k · revenue +167%
  • EC
    Episcopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania
    3× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +13%
  • WF
    WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $44k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -11%
  • PY
    PHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -5%
  • PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +86%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
2
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
3
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
4
Whyy Inc

Whyy is the philadelphia region's leading public media provider, serving southeastern pennsylvania, southern new jersey, and all of delaware.

Arts & Culture
5
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
6
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
7
Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

—
8
The Pennsylvania Ballet Association

To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world-class performances, to inspire the next generation with exceptional education and professional training, and to connect with the community through meaningful and inclusive…

Arts & Culture
9
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
10
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
11
Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership

To promote learning in and through the arts for students in k-12 and community sites throughout southeastern pennsylvania.

Arts & Culture
12
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mann Center for the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Moore College of Art and Design. 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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/84
the rest of the field
16%
1,554/9,512

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.

04the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 111 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/83
Grantees still filing
60/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA — $155,000 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIAWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $44,000 · OtherWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE+53 more — $401,500 · Other+53 moreSAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSAMUEL S FLEISHER ART…SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHO…MUSICOPIA INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICOPIA INCTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $10,750 · Arts & CultureTHE CLAY STUDIO — $10,100 · Arts & CultureARDEN THEATRE COMPANY — $8,500 · Arts & CultureTHE WILMA THEATER — $8,500 · Arts & Culture1812 PRODUCTIONS INC — $8,500 · Arts & CultureAsian Arts Initiative — $7,500 · Arts & CultureWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $7,500 · Arts & CulturePLAY ON PHILLY — $7,500 · Arts & CultureLANTERN THEATER COMPANY — $7,500 · Arts & CultureROCK TO THE FUTURE INC — $7,000 · Arts & CultureFRESH ARTISTS — $7,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $53,000 · Arts & Culture+16 moreHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $49,000 · EducationHEIGHTS PHIL…BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH…MIGHTY WRITERS — $20,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITE…Artwell Collaborative Inc — $6,000 · EducationHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION — $5,500 · EducationPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE — $5,500 · EducationPhiladelphia Robotics Coalition Inc — $5,000 · Education+6 more — $12,600 · Education+6 moreEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania — $45,000 · Human ServicesEpiscopal…PROJECT HOME — $16,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT H…THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILD…NORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesNORTH LIG…MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesMERCY NEI…THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND — $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION — $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentNEED IN DEED — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOYFUL READERS INC — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentMONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER — $20,000 · HealthVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $2,000 · HealthASTRAL ARTISTS INC — $11,000 · EmploymentThe Fabric Workshop and Museum — $9,500 · Employment
Other$600,500Arts & Culture$205,350Education$123,600Human Services$90,000Youth Development$30,500Health$22,000Employment$20,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $49,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $44,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN PA — $18,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH — $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN — $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND — $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Ballet Exhange — $11,500 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetNORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT — $11,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetASTRAL ARTISTS INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $10,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION — $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLAY STUDIO — $10,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fabric Workshop and Museum — $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARDEN THEATRE COMPANY — $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILMA THEATER — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budget1812 PRODUCTIONS INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Arts Initiative — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAWBURY ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PRINT CENTER — $7,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHealthy NewsWorks — $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY ON PHILLY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLANTERN THEATER COMPANY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROCK TO THE FUTURE INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOOD TRUST — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetStarfinder Foundation — $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEED IN DEED — $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH ARTISTS — $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArtwell Collaborative Inc — $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS — $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Philadelphia Foun…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Cult…The Allen Hilles FundConnelly FoundationAdam and Maria Sarah …Independence Foundati…The Patricia Kind Fam…Rosenlund Family Foun…
Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust UwPA101.9× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Allen Hilles Fund · Connelly Foundation · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · Independence Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Rosenlund Family Foundation Inv Mgr

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 Ludwick Fdn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ludwick Fdn?

    Find your warmest path to Ludwick Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $278k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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