· Private foundation
The Ledy 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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TROUT LAKE CAMP | $59,835 |
| THE NEST RETREAT CENTER | $12,400 |
| LIVIN FOUNDATION | $5,080 |
| AMPLIFY | $5,000 |
| COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES | $4,200 |
| HENDRICKSON FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| HARRISON'S PLAYMAKERS | $4,000 |
| MOUNDS VIEW SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| EVERY MEAL | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000 |
| JUAB FOOD SHELF | $2,000 |
| WHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELF | $1,100 |
| GULL CHAIN OF LAKES ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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 +5% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 18 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- NRNEST RETREAT CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $71k
- THTHE HENDRICKSON FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +18%
- EMEVERY MEAL2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CCCOMPASSION CONNECTIONone grant, 2023 · $6k
- CDCAN DO CANINESone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -10%
- HCHOPE CHESTone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.
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The minnesota community health worker alliance builds community and systems capacity for better health through the integration of community health worker (chw) strategies. our vision is equitable and optimal outcomes for all communities.…
Special olympics minnesota's mission is to create a new world of inclusion and acceptance for people with intellectual disabilities. we do this by providing year-round sports training and athletic competitions, inclusive healthcare…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Dedicated to providing essential informaiton, resources, advocacy and education to help individuals and families better gain access to the prevention, treatment and recovery programs needed to be successful.
Advocating change together's (act) mission is to advance "self advocacy" which, as its name suggests, engages people with developmental disabilities to be in charge of their own decisions and to speak for themselves. act describes…
Goodlife's mission is to make a meaningful difference in the everyday lives of individuals who need help to live more independently (individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, brain injuries, physical or age-related…
We unite people to create positive lasting change in our community.
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
The mission of mental health resources is to foster hope, health and recovery for people affected by mental illness and substance use disorder.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Livin Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wellness in the Woods Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 29 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 THE HENDRICKSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIVIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds HARRISONS PLAYMAKERS ↗
- Who funds JACK'S BASKET ↗
- Who funds GULL CHAIN OF LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNDS VIEW SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds Wellness in the Woods 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: The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 The Ledy 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.