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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.

$55k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 22
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$819k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$53k21%
FY202312$30k8%
FY202221$50k19%
FY202121$55k29%
FY202022$51k27%
FY201920$48kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$131kEducation$26kArts & Culture$23kHealth$18kPhilanthropy$15kHuman Services$15kMembership Benefit$7kYouth Development$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
SD
IA
CO
VA
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Love Inc of Worthington$60,000611%
The Navigators$27,7006n/a
Worthington Christian School Society$15,00031%
Worthington Regional Health Care Foundation Inc$13,00032%
Nobles County Historical Society$11,07821%
Artis-Naples Inc$11,00020%
Worthington Cemetery Association$7,00034%
Salvation Army$6,5006n/a
Client Community Services Inc$6,00060%
Mission Aviation Fellowship$5,7004n/a
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Love Inc of Worthington$60,000611%
The Navigators$27,7006n/a
Worthington Christian School Society$15,00031%
Worthington Regional Health Care Foundation Inc$13,00032%
Nobles County Historical Society$11,07821%
Artis-Naples Inc$11,00020%
Worthington Cemetery Association$7,00034%
Salvation Army$6,5006n/a
Client Community Services Inc$6,00060%
Mission Aviation Fellowship$5,7004n/a
Proclaim Aviation Ministries Inc$5,70040%
University of Minnesota Foundation$5,00050%
Family Connection$5,00051%
Byron Bible Camp$5,00050%
Living Waters Covenant Church$5,0001n/a
ECHO Inc$5,00050%
Youth Investment Foundation$4,20030%
Union Gospel Mission$3,5003n/a
English Language Institute in China$2,50010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$1,50020%
Worthington Area Symphony Orchestra$1,00021%
Union Gospel Mission Inc$1,00020%
National Park Foundation$60020%
American Cancer Society Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLove Inc of Worthington: $60,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetWorthington Christian School Society: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWorthington Regional Health Care Foundation Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNobles County Historical Society: $11,078 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetArtis-Naples Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorthington Cemetery Association: $7,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetClient Community Services Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProclaim Aviation Ministries Inc: $5,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Connection: $5,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetByron Bible Camp: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetECHO Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Investment Foundation: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEnglish Language Institute in China: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorthington Area Symphony Orchestra: $1,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

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Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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.

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About Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation

How much does Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation give?
Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $55,078 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Education (9%), Arts & Culture (8%).
Who are Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Love Inc of Worthington ($60k), The Navigators ($28k), Worthington Christian School Society ($15k).
Does Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation based?
Robert and Patricia Ludlow Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 43 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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