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The Terry & Laurie Ledbetter 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$3.7MEducation$2.9MInternational$1.6MHousing & Shelter$500kHealth$343kPhilanthropy$250kYouth Development$243kCommunity Improvement$180kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $180k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$270,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dallas Theological Seminary$1,000,000
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$270,000
Biola University$180,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $895k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERNATIONAL SANCTUARY: $103k → 10%INTERNATIONAL SANCTUARY: $50k → 10%Just Say Yes: $243k → 14%OURCALLING INC: $250k → 14%OURCALLING INC: $250k → 14%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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 10 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$7.1M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+32%

Still filing today

70%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionInternationalHealthOther
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

  • DT
    Dallas Theological Seminary
    4× · 2018–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +77%
  • CU
    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE
    4× · 2018–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +34%
  • HH
    Healing Hands of Joy
    3× · 2018–2022 · $569k · revenue +124% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • CURE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +44%
  • FU
    FLORESTA USA INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +280%
  • The Fistula Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $343k · revenue -28%
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
3
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
4
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
5
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
6
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
7
Arizona Christian University

Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.

Education
8
Trinity Western University

Trinity Western University's mission is to produce positive, goal-oriented graduates with thoroughly Christian minds-growing disciples of Jesus Christ who glorify God through fulfilling the Great Commission, serving God and people in…

Education
9
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
10
Hope International University

The mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…

Education
11
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
12
Redeem International

Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Azusa Pacific University; the most unlike its peers is Healing Hands of Joy. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 29 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)
17/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dallas Theological Seminary: $3,100,000 · EducationDallas Theological SeminaryCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE: $1,751,354 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINEBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $480,000 · EducationBIOLA UNIVERSITY INCAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $360,000 · EducationAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY+1 more: $155,000 · EducationHealing Hands of Joy: $569,410 · Human ServicesHealing Hands o…OURCALLING INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INCYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED: $242,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH EQUIPPED …INTERNATIONAL SANCTUARY: $152,500 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL S…Empart: $250,000 · OtherEmpartBarbara May Foundation: $250,000 · OtherBarbara May Fou…LIFE WATER INC: $180,000 · OtherLIFE WATER INCNORTHWEST BIBLE CHURCH: $175,000 · OtherNORTHWEST BIBLE…LIFENET INC: $162,500 · OtherLIFENET INCREGENT UNIVERSITY: $108,000 · OtherREGENT UNIVERSI…Tuapona, Inc: $100,000 · OtherTuapona, IncYES: $100,000 · OtherYESLiving Northwest Bible Church: $50,000 · Other+5 more: $25,095 · OtherCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $500,000 · InternationalCURE INTER…FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $500,000 · InternationalFLORESTA U…REFUGE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · ReligionBIBLEPROJECT: $100,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionThe Fistula Foundation: $342,500 · Health
Education$5,846,354Human Services$1,464,410Other$1,400,595International$1,000,000Religion$355,000Health$342,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $3,100,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE: $1,751,354 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHealing Hands of Joy: $569,410 over 3y, 34% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $500,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $480,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $360,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $342,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetREFUGE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLIFENET INC: $162,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA COUNCIL OF ASIAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF INDIA INC: $155,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetREGENT UNIVERSITY: $108,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIBLEPROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetE3 Partners Ministry: $5,000 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA12× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Terry & Laurie Ledbetter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Terry & Laurie Ledbetter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–20%
    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 29 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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