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The Marie Ledoux Foundation at a glance

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The Marie Ledoux Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$259kSocial Science$115kArts & Culture$68kYouth Development$45kHealth$30kHuman Services$24kPublic Benefit$10kCivil Rights$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
$5,737
Median grant
5
States reached
$771k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZEAL CHURCH$31,755
THE CONGREGATION RUACH ISRAEL CONGREGATION$23,816
CORNERSTONE POLICY RESEARCH NEW HAMPSHIRE$7,939
CHILDRENS HEALTH DEFENSE$5,737
THE MOMS FOR LIBERTY$4,402
AMERICAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION$1,000
HOLLIS REPUBLICAN TOWN COMMITTEE SCHOLARSHIP$750
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BAKERSFIELD ARC: $1k → 18%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

NH
WI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$652k · 13 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$652k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+17%

Still filing today

23%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • LO
    LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue ×36
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +33%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION
    2× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • FW
    FAITH WORSHIP CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • TL
    The Life Bridge Ministries
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +16%
  • SG
    ST GERMAIN EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
House of Prayer for All Nations

Church ministry

Religion
2
Truth and Light Prayer Ministry Inc Co Sharon K Frizzell

Ministry

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3
Spirit of Life Power International

Religious group providing community with information on neurodivergence, bible study and community

Human Services
4
Spiritual Light Ministries
Religion
5
Breaker of Dawn Ministries

Ministry: to bring supernatural unity of the presence of the Lord to the Body of Christ.

Religion
6
Divine Revelation Ministry
Religion
7
Phoenix Journey

Nutrional education

Food & Nutrition
8
Liberty and Health Alliance

To serve humanity through the promotion of medical freedom and the uncensored liberty to speak without recrimination while upholding Gods methods as the best means of optimizing physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Religion
9
Brian Fleck Ministries Inc

To inspire change and transformation through the message of Jesus Christ by preaching, teaching, prayer, and worship music.

Human Services
10
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
11
Life Training Ministries Inc

Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.

Human Services
12
Real Kids Real Food
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Defense; the most unlike its peers is Dream Farm Creative Arts. 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

13 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. 13 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $188,070 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCORNERSTONE POLICY RESEARCH NEW HAMPSHIRE: $114,559 · OtherCORNERSTONE POLICY RESEARCH NEW HAMPSHIREDREAM FARM CREATIVE ARTS: $65,680 · OtherDREAM FARM CREATIVE ARTSMESSIANIC JEWISH THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $64,460 · OtherMESSIANIC JEWISH THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTERUACH ISRAEL CONGREGATION INC: $61,650 · OtherRUACH ISRAEL CONGREGATION INCGOT YOUR BACK SAN DIEGO: $45,220 · OtherGOT YOUR BACK SAN DIEGOZEAL CHURCH: $41,755 · OtherZEAL CHURCHTHE CONGREGATION RUACH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $23,816 · Other+11 more: $80,340 · Other+11 moreLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $24,200 · ReligionThe Life Bridge Ministries: $12,740 · ReligionAMERICAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION: $5,000 · ReligionELIJAH LIST MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionAmerican Heart Association Inc: $12,500 · HealthTHE JUICE PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · HealthMoms for Liberty: $4,402 · EducationSouthern New Hampshire University: $3,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $5,737 · EnvironmentBakersfield Arc Inc: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$685,550Religion$45,940Health$16,000Education$7,402Environment$5,737Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $24,200 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetThe Life Bridge Ministries: $12,740 over 1y, 21% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL PRODUCTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetAMERICAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION: $5,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE JUICE PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELIJAH LIST MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBakersfield Arc Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIGNITING PRAYER ACTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds DREAM FARM CREATIVE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds The Life Bridge Ministries ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL PRODUCTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Moms for Liberty ↗
  • Who funds THE JUICE PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ELIJAH LIST MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern New Hampshire University ↗
  • Who funds Bakersfield Arc Inc ↗
  • Who funds IGNITING PRAYER ACTION ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Marie Ledoux Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marie Ledoux Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Marie Ledoux Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Marie Ledoux Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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