· Private foundation
Robert and Patricia Ludlow 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of ROBERT AND PATRICIA LUDLOW FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOVE INC OF WORTHINGTON | $10,000 |
| LIVING WATERS COVENANT CHURCH | $5,000 |
| NAVIGATORS | $5,000 |
| GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SOLID ROCK ASSEMBLY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| WORTHINGTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| ELIC | $2,500 |
| NOBLES COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,078 |
| NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PROJECT ONE EIGHT | $2,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $1,500 |
| ECHO | $1,000 |
| BYRON BIBLE CAMP | $1,000 |
| FAMILY CONNECTION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 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 (FY19–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- LILOVE INC OF WORTHINGTON6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +1%
- WRWORTHINGTON REGIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +162%
- WCWORTHINGTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION3× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- FCFIRST COVENANT CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CCRUone grant, 2022 · $3k
- YYMCAone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Young life is a ministry to help adolescents around the world become exposed to the person of jesus christ. this is accomplished in a variety of ways desgined to provide personal, religious experiences. (continued on schedule o)included…
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
In the spirit of christ's love, the ministry of united church of christ homes is to provide care and service to elders through acts of love and compassion.
See schedule oohio living communities was founded in 1922 and was incorporated as an ohio non-profit corporation in 1959. the corporation's mission statement is as follows:our mission is to provide older adults with caring and quality…
Wheaton College serves Jesus Christ and advances His kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.
Wayland baptist university exists to educate students in an academically challenging, learning focused and distinctively christian environment for professional success and service to god and humankind.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.
Guided by christian compassion, wesleylife supports the independence, health, and well-being of older adults wherever they call home. as a non-profit organization, we understand our responsibility and obligation to operate with…
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Love Inc of Worthington and the most unlike its peers is Echo 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 53 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
20 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. 20 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 LOVE INC OF WORTHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Worthington Christian School Society ↗
- Who funds WORTHINGTON REGIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Nobles County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds WORTHINGTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIENT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROCLAIM AVIATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BYRON BIBLE CAMP ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Worthington Area Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Robert and Patricia Ludlow 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.