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Virginia Stockham Ladd Family 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.

$82k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,375
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
23 to 29
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$82k7%
FY202429$72k28%
FY202324$56k8%
FY202224$66k29%
FY202123$56k22%
FY202023$56kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$84kEducation$64kHuman Services$59kHealth$47kFood & Nutrition$37kAnimals$28kInternational$15kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
WI
NY
PA
CA
AZ
NC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Linly Heflin Unit Inc$45,00061%
Downtown Jimmie Hale Mission$34,12560%
University of Alabama at Birmingham$28,0006n/a
The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc$25,50060%
Church of the Highlands Inc$21,0004n/a
Alabama Sheriffs' Youth Ranches Inc$19,00060%
Service Dogs Alabama Inc$15,06061%
Freedom Rain Inc$15,00060%
Grace House Ministries Inc$13,50060%
Arise Birmingham$13,0005n/a
Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Linly Heflin Unit Inc$45,00061%
Downtown Jimmie Hale Mission$34,12560%
University of Alabama at Birmingham$28,0006n/a
The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc$25,50060%
Church of the Highlands Inc$21,0004n/a
Alabama Sheriffs' Youth Ranches Inc$19,00060%
Service Dogs Alabama Inc$15,06061%
Freedom Rain Inc$15,00060%
Grace House Ministries Inc$13,50060%
Arise Birmingham$13,0005n/a
Three Hots & a Cot$11,75061%
St Luke's Episcopal Church$9,0003n/a
Powers Ministries International$8,00040%
Christian Service Mission Inc$7,50060%
The Restoration Academy$7,25050%
The Summit School Incorporated$6,50060%
Friends of Jemison Park$5,56030%
Samaritan's Purse$5,00020%
Bridgeways Inc$4,17540%
Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation$4,00030%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Birmingham Inc$3,50020%
Twin City Garden Club$2,5001n/a
Birmingham Landmarks Inc$2,00010%
Tiny Paws Pug Rescue$2,00011%
Alliance Defending Freedom$1,00010%
Oak City Church Inc$1,0001n/a
Maranatha Academy Inc$1,00010%
Lowes Employee Relief Fund Inc$1,00010%
Charlotte Rescue Mission$1,00010%
All Saints Presbyterian Church$1,0001n/a
Love Out Loud$50010%
Second Chapter$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLinly Heflin Unit Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDowntown Jimmie Hale Mission: $34,125 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc: $25,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAlabama Sheriffs' Youth Ranches Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetService Dogs Alabama Inc: $15,060 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFreedom Rain Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGrace House Ministries Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThree Hots & a Cot: $11,750 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPowers Ministries International: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChristian Service Mission Inc: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Restoration Academy: $7,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Summit School Incorporated: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Jemison Park: $5,560 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBridgeways Inc: $4,175 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Birmingham Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBirmingham Landmarks Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTiny Paws Pug Rescue: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaranatha Academy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLowes Employee Relief Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Rescue Mission: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove Out Loud: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL35× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Holle Family Foundation · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · Stephens Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · The Faulkner Family Foundation · Dunn-French 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.

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About Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation

How much does Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation give?
Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $82,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (21%), Education (16%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Linly Heflin Unit Inc ($45k), Downtown Jimmie Hale Mission ($34k), University of Alabama at Birmingham ($28k).
Does Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Altecstyslinger Foundation, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
Where is Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation based?
Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation is based in AL.

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 48 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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