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M&P Ledbetter Family Foundation at a glance

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M&P Ledbetter Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$858k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$776k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$833kArts & Culture$308kAnimals$45kHuman Services$39kEnvironment$26kYouth Development$25kInternational$11kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
  • $250k+1 grant · $776k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$113k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$775,801
HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY$45,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MYRIAD USA$3,500
HALEIWA ARTS FESTIVAL$2,000
FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
FRIENDS OF HONOLULU BOTANICAL GARDENS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
LUTHERAN CHURCH$713
KOREAN PROTESTANT CHURCH$700
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%CALIFORNIA HETHUSHKA: $4k → 10%GIVE2ASIA: $4k → 10%STEVENSON SCHOOL: $10k → 12%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $55k → 14%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $776k → 9%CHANDLER FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $6k → 17%Ohio State University Foundation: $1k → 15%HELPING YOU GROW SUCCESSFULLY HUGS: $2k → 11%KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%CALIFORNIA HETHUSHKA: $3k → 10%GIVE2ASIA: $2k → 10%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $43k → 14%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $10k → 9%CHANDLER FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $3k → 17%KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%CALIFORNIA HETHUSHKA: $3k → 10%GIVE2ASIA: $2k → 10%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $25k → 14%Punahou School: $5k → 9%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $25k → 14%Punahou School: $5k → 9%LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM: $68k → 14%Mid-Pacific Institute: $5k → 9%THE HUNTINGTON: $25k → 14%Mid-Pacific Institute: $5k → 9%LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM: $32k → 14%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $13k → 14%LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM: $3k → 14%Hi'ipalsa LLC Waimea Valley: $10k → 9%SHAKESPEARE CLUB OF PASADENA: $111k → 14%HI'IPALSA LLC WAIMEA VALLEY: $5k → 9%PASADENA HERITAGE: $7k → 14%HALEIWA ARTS FESTIVAL: $2k → 9%PASADENA HERITAGE: $1k → 14%MANU O KE KAI: $2k → 9%MALAMA PUPUKEA WAIMEA: $1k → 9%LONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS: $25k → 14%FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS: $2k → 14%THE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVATORY: $11k → 14%CHANDLER SCHOOL: $7k → 14%CHANDLER SCHOOL: $5k → 14%CHANDLER SCHOOL: $5k → 14%THE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVATORY: $2k → 14%HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $45k → 9%YMCA Camp Erdman: $25k → 9%PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%HI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 17 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$1.2M
$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+23%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $796k · revenue +40%
  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $161k · revenue +116%
  • HN
    HO'OLA NA PUA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $28k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHAKESPEARE CLUB OF PASADENAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $111k · revenue +48%
  • LB
    LONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
2
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
3
Pasadena Museum of California Art

To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.

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4
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
5
Uhiwai O Haleakala

The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…

Environment
6
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
7
Hawaii Preparatory Academy

To provide exceptional learning opportunities in a diverse community honoring the traditions of hawaii. see schedule o.

Education
8
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
9
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
10
Pohaku Pelemaka

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance: the intrinsic qualities of the lower puna area, native hawaiian wellbeing, and the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and practices in partnership with county, state, government,…

Human Services
11
Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture
12
Hanalei River Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pasadena Heritage; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $795,801 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOL+2 more: $11,000 · EducationSHAKESPEARE CLUB OF PASADENA: $111,000 · OtherSHAKESPEARE CLUB OF PASADEN…Individual grant recipient: $103,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS: $25,000 · OtherLONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL BOY…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE CHANDLER SCHOOL: $16,600 · OtherTHE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVATORY: $13,000 · Other+13 more: $31,693 · Other+13 moreHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $161,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTIN…CALIFORNIA HETHUSHKA: $9,000 · Arts & CulturePASADENA HERITAGE: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $5,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $45,000 · AnimalsHO'OLA NA PUA: $27,500 · Human ServicesHi'ipaka LLC: $15,000 · EnvironmentKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HONOLULU BOTANICAL GARDENS: $2,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentPASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC: $1,000 · Environment+2 more: $500 · EnvironmentGIVE2ASIA: $7,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $3,500 · InternationalPasadena Community Foundation: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Education$806,801Other$350,293Arts & Culture$183,000Animals$45,000Human Services$27,500Environment$26,500International$10,500Philanthropy$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $795,801 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $161,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $27,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHANDLER SCHOOL: $16,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHi'ipaka LLC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA HETHUSHKA: $9,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetPASADENA HERITAGE: $7,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALEIWA ARTS FESTIVAL: $3,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF HONOLULU BOTANICAL GARDENS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMALAMA PUPUKEA-WAIMEA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANU O KE KAI CANOE CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWEST PASADENA RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARROYO SECO FOUNDATION HAHAMONGNA NATIVE PLANT NURSERY: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPASADENA LA CASITA FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Pasadena Community Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Pasadena Community FoundationCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization M&P Ledbetter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M&P Ledbetter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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