Georgia · Nonprofit
Ludacris Foundation Inc
Ludacris Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $304,654 to it, the largest being The Movado Group Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $573k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $305k
- Net assets
- $494k
What Ludacris Foundation Inc does
Mission
"Helping youth help themselves" the Ludacris Foundation inspires youth through education and memorable experiences to live their dreams. Our efforts uplift youth, families, communities, and foster economic development. The Ludacris Foundation activities are focused in three key areas: leadership and education, healthy lifestyles, and Ludacares (letting youth and the community know we care).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership and education pillar programs: Challenges youth to create a roadmap for their success by setting goals and taking specific actions toward meeting their goals to become great leaders and learn about the benefits of education to be successful: this program is designed to provide hands on and interactive experiences to improve leadership and decision-making skills. Key leadership, education experiences, andAccomplishments are: 1. Reached 10,000 plus students with a message of the role of education in achieving their dreams. Venues for delivering training and education include, celebrity panels, school visits, rap sessions in group homes and recreation centers. 2. Red carpet kids: reached over 500 youth. Working with major movie studios, sports and entertainment facilities, urban schools' principals, and teachers we provide red carpet experiences to youth. These a reward experiences and incentivize for successful school learning behaviors, for example exemplary school attendance, good grades, and conduct. The experiences also build self-esteem and confidence. The foundation's targeted schools are nationally recognized and targeted failing schools in Fulton and Clayton…
$102,578 spentof which $25,000 as grants43% of program spendingHealthy lifestyles pillar programs: Is designed to guide and influence healthy eating and being physically active to improve the health of youth and the health of the planet. This program addresses issues such as nutritional health, physical activity, and childhood obesity. It also provides hands on learning experiences and encourages students to make small changes to improve health. Key healthy lifestyles experiences and accomplishments are: Healthy eating program: youth workshops with professional chefs to create foods that are healthy while learning more aboutFood preparation, healthy choices, and kitchen safety. Youth participate in a rap session at the end of each event to discuss everyday challenges and choices they face in making the right food choices. Over 500 youth have participated in this program which includes the following: a teaching garden- partnering with Carrie Steele Pitts Childrens home and habitat to plant, grow and harvest food there by creating sustainable agriculture in urban communities. The goal of the program is to provide organic food source to the school co-located on the children's home property. Make a splash: a partnership with USA swim foundation…
$68,490 spentof which $40,000 as grants29% of program spendingLudacares pillar programs:Are opportunities during the year where the Ludacris foundation reaches out to under-served youth and communities to show that we care. Whether it's during the holidays, a special hospital visit, or responding to a local or national disaster, we are in the community with a hands-on approach. Ludacares is a Global program. Coats in the community: an annual event to provide coats to youth who would otherwise no haul fall/winter event giving coats and gloves to youth who would otherwise do without. When it gets extremely cool many youths are missing school because they do not have a warm coat. We work with school counsel's and Atlanta boys and girls' centers of hope to identify youth in need. 2. Give thanks. Give back.: an annual thanksgiving.Event held to provide thanksgiving dinners, food baskets, and drinks to those less fortunate. Annually we average over 500 food baskets to the community. 3. USO performances: special performances for service men around the world to show appreciation and build morale. 4. Make-a-wish foundation: this partnership allows us to work with the make-a-wish foundation to make wishesCome true for youth. 5.ludacrismas: an annual…
$29,147 spent12% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$37,461 spentof which $102,403 as grants16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $237,676.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $265k to $594k (+124%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
134% of Ludacris Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Christopher Bridges
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Ludacris Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Ludacris Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Ludacris Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of Ludacris Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 13% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Ludacris Foundation Inc draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Ludacris Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Ludacris Foundation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ludacris Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ludacris Foundation Inc?
- Ludacris Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $304,654 to it, the largest being The Movado Group Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ludacris Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $304,654 in grants to Ludacris Foundation Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ludacris Foundation Inc?
- The Movado Group Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ludacris Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing