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The Ligon 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.

$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$657kHealth$138kHuman Services$88kArts & Culture$15kRecreation & Sports$11kCivil Rights$10kPhilanthropy$10kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$35,500
EMORY UNIVERSITY$20,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$20,000
SOTF$15,000
THE WALKER SCHOOL$13,000
BREWTON PARKER COLLEGE$10,000
NGC (NATIONAL GARDEN CLUBS) SHAW SCHOLARSHIP$5,000
GREEN BERET FOUNDATION$2,342
Individual grant recipient$2,000
GO FUND ME - YELLOW RIBBON$1,094
ZERO PROSTATE CANCER FUNDRAISER$1,037
MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES$42
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
MA
IN
OH
CT
UT
CO
MO
VA
SC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$889k · 23 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
17

Total granted

$889k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+17%

Still filing today

43%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TW
    The Walker School Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +30%
  • EU
    Emory University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +80%
  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • MC
    MUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • MC
    MUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $8k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
3
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
7
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
8
St Luke's Foundation Inc

An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wesleyan University. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Walker School Inc — $193,000 · EducationThe Walker School IncEmory University — $182,500 · EducationEmory UniversityWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $80,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $71,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAWESLEYAN — $40,000 · OtherWESLEYANCAMARADERIE — $38,000 · OtherCAMARADERIEBREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE INC — $35,000 · OtherBREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE INCMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES — $32,276 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIESTHE NATIONAL MS SOCIETY — $22,500 · OtherTHE NATIONAL MS SOCIETYUNIVERTY OF NORTH GA - SHAW SCHOLA — $15,000 · OtherSOTF — $15,000 · Other+26 more — $119,243 · Other+26 moreTEAM TYPE 1 INC — $71,250 · PhilanthropyTEAM TYPE 1…RALLY FOUNDATION INC — $28,000 · PhilanthropyRALLY FOUND…CENTER FOR AMERICAN VALUES — $15,000 · Arts & CultureGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $7,342 · Human ServicesATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionLUKE PROJECT INC — $2,500 · Youth Development
Education$455,500Other$388,019Philanthropy$99,250Arts & Culture$15,000Human Services$7,342Food & Nutrition$5,000Youth Development$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Walker School Inc — $193,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEmory University — $182,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM TYPE 1 INC — $71,250 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetBREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE INC — $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC — $28,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN VALUES — $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $8,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $7,342 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOINED FOR GOOD INC DBA BRACKETS FOR GOOD — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILL SPRINGS ACADEMY INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUKE PROJECT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC — $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Walker School Inc
  • Who funds Emory University
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds TEAM TYPE 1 INC
  • Who funds BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE INC
  • Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN VALUES
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK
  • Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JOINED FOR GOOD INC DBA BRACKETS FOR GOOD
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds MILL SPRINGS ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds LUKE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Ligon 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University1% of 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 · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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