· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
- $250k+1 grant · $776k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +40% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- PSPUNAHOU SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $796k · revenue +40%
- HEHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY5× · 2019–2023 · $161k · revenue +116%
- HNHO'OLA NA PUA2× · 2021–2022 · $28k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- SCSHAKESPEARE CLUB OF PASADENAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $111k · revenue +48%
- LBLONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2019 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
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…
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.
To provide exceptional learning opportunities in a diverse community honoring the traditions of hawaii. see schedule o.
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,…
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,…
To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pasadena Heritage and 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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 41 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 PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE CLUB OF PASADENA ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds THE CHANDLER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Hi'ipaka LLC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HETHUSHKA ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HERITAGE ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds HALEIWA ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HONOLULU BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds MALAMA PUPUKEA-WAIMEA ↗
- Who funds PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST PASADENA RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MANU O KE KAI CANOE CLUB ↗
- Who funds ARROYO SECO FOUNDATION HAHAMONGNA NATIVE PLANT NURSERY ↗
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: 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
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 M&P Ledbetter 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.
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.