Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Ludes Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $139k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2024
- 78
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 74 to 93
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations The Ludes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 82 | $139k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 78 | $129k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $127k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 74 | $91k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 93 | $124k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 83 | $104k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 80 | $96k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 85 | $98k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Sisters School | $43,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $42,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $42,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mercy Ships International | $35,500 | 8 | 0% |
| St Gabriels Episcopal Church | $21,990 | 7 | n/a |
| Old Dartmouth Historical Society | $20,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $19,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Southcoast Health System Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $13,125 | 8 | 0% |
| Gather | $12,750 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 124 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($289k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ludes Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 115 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Bascom Charitable Foundation · Island Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Quarterdeck Foundation · The Croll Foundation · The Maurice and Anne Makepeace Family Foundation · United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc
How this is measured
About The Ludes Family Foundation
- How much does The Ludes Family Foundation give?
- The Ludes Family Foundation reported 91 grants totaling $139,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 93 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ludes Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), International (18%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Ludes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Our Sisters School ($44k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($42k), Save The Children Federation Inc ($42k).
- Does The Ludes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ludes Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ludes Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002, Southcoast Community Foundation Inc, Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ludes Family Foundation based?
- The Ludes Family Foundation is based in MA.
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