· Private foundation
Ludwig Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| First Baptist Church - Highlands | $5,000 |
| ST SIMONS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $3,000 |
| THE BASCOM CORPORATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| GOLDEN ISLES ACT INC | $1,100 |
| COASTAL GA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BLUE SKIES MINISTRIES INC | $1,000 |
| Communities in Schools | $1,000 |
| ST SIMONS LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| GRACE HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK | $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 (FY21–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- TBThe Bascom Corporation4× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +24%
MAP International Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +134%- GIGolden Isles ACT Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- HHHighlands Health Foundationone grant, 2022 · $5k
- HHHghlands Health Foundationone grant, 2021 · $4k
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL) inspires and equips communities of faith to organize, implement practical climate solutions, and advocate across Georgia on issues of climate change, environmental justice, and community resilience.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
The mission of the grosse pointe academy is to nurture, challenge and inspire the intellectual, creative and personal potential in each and every child.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Anc Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 43 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Golden Isles ACT Inc ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Coastal Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK INC ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PROMISE KEEPERS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Blue Skies Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ANC HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE GOLDEN ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA GLYNN INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN ISLES YMCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
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: Sara H Woodruff Foundation · Arthur and Lindee Lucas Family Foundation Inc · Julia Terrill Thomas Foundation Inc · Davis Love III Foundation · The Woodcrest Foundation · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 Ludwig Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.