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The Ludy Family Foundation at a glance

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The Ludy 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.

$101k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$215kHealth$59kArts & Culture$52kSocial Science$50kReligion$30kHuman Services$30kCommunity Improvement$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$955k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$50,000
NOTHING TO LOSE FOUNDATION$10,000
BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY$10,000
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY$10,000
BUSINESS SCHOOL ALLIANCE$10,000
EASTER SEALS$10,000
BROOKLYN FOOD PANTRY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NOTHING TO LOSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NOTHING TO LOSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
MA
CA
AZ
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 41% of The Ludy Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Ludy Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$112k · 5 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$112k
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-52%
+4%

Still filing today

40%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ES
    EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +129%
  • TN
    THE NOTHING TO LOSE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $30k
  • TN
    The Nothing to Lose Foundation co Dr John Loewen
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -61%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +77%
  • SC
    SEGERSTROM CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • Y
    Y-MALAWI
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
5
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
6
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
7
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
8
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
9
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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10
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

Health
11
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Brooklyn Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNI…The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc: $50,000 · EducationThe Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innova…CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationSEGERSTROM CENTER: $50,000 · OtherSEGERSTROM CENTEREASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $45,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INCY-MALAWI: $30,000 · OtherY-MALAWITHE NOTHING TO LOSE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · OtherTHE NOTHING TO LOSE FOUNDATION INCBUSINESS SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $10,000 · OtherBUSINESS SCHOOL ALLIANCEEASTER SEALS INC: $10,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS INC+1 more: $2,000 · OtherThe Nothing to Lose Foundation co Dr John Loewen: $20,000 · Human ServicesBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 · InternationalThe Borgen Project: $1,000 · InternationalBUSINESS SCHOOL ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH MANAGEMENT: $12,500 · Arts & CultureSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionBrooklyn Food Pantry: $1,000 · Food & NutritionJessie Rees Foundation: $1,000 · Health
Education$235,000Other$177,000Human Services$20,000Community Improvement$15,000International$13,500Arts & Culture$12,500Food & Nutrition$6,000Health$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUSINESS SCHOOL ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH MANAGEMENT: $12,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Borgen Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrooklyn Food Pantry: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ludy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ludy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 19 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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