Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Executive Leadership Council
Increase the number of successful black executives, domestically and internationally, by adding value to their development, leadership and philanthropic endeavors across the lifecycle of their careers.
- $4.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 102
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 96
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 49%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $4.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $534,315
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 96
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 29
- Total assets, FY2024
- $65M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 49% of the organizations Executive Leadership Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $582k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 94 | $3.9M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 96 | $3.2M | 49% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $2.0M | 62% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $2.0M | 98% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $189k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Education$9.6MCivil Rights$613kCommunity Improvement$425kSocial Science$300kPhilanthropy$135kArts & Culture$123kPublic Benefit$95kYouth Development$85kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Howard University | $2,159,130 | 5 | 0% |
| North Carolina a & T State University | $835,191 | 4 | n/a |
| Hampton University | $549,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Spelman College | $409,990 | 4 | 0% |
| Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Delaware State University | $375,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Delaware State University Foundation Inc | $325,000 | 3 | 1% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 9% |
| University of Maryland College Park | $293,500 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Howard University | $2,159,130 | 5 | 0% |
| North Carolina a & T State University | $835,191 | 4 | n/a |
| Hampton University | $549,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Spelman College | $409,990 | 4 | 0% |
| Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Delaware State University | $375,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Delaware State University Foundation Inc | $325,000 | 3 | 1% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 9% |
| University of Maryland College Park | $293,500 | 4 | n/a |
| The Foundation for NC A&T State University | $260,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Center for Innovations in Education | $250,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Alabama A&M University | $224,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Term | $211,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Morehouse College | $208,158 | 4 | 0% |
| Rutgers the State University | $114,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Regents Univ of California | $104,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Tuskegee University | $102,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Inroads Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Cornell University | $99,500 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Massachusetts | $90,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Morgan State University | $90,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | $88,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas A&M University | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Georgia | $74,000 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Texas | $71,490 | 3 | n/a |
| Emory University | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $69,490 | 3 | n/a |
| Georgia State University | $64,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Tennessee State University | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Michigan State University | $58,500 | 3 | n/a |
| The Historymakers | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Links Foundation Incorporated | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Leadership Forum - Silicon Valley | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Collegiate Directions Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Civic Nation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Black Men Vote | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Web Dubois Scholars Institute Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 10% |
| University of Miami | $48,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $47,500 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Connecticut | $46,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Florida State University | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Saint Joseph's University | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kansas Athletics Inc | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $34,245 | 2 | n/a |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $34,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc | $33,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $32,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Johns Hopkins Hospital | $31,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Harvey Mudd College | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Florida International University | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bethune-Cookman University | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Houston | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Loyola University | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stanford University | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mars Hill University | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Drexel University | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jackson State University | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Florida | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Prairie View a and M University | $28,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Ohio State University | $26,490 | 2 | n/a |
| Grand Valley State University | $26,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $25,500 | 1 | n/a |
| National Coalition on Black Civic Partic | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Starting With Today Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 41% |
| NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| GardHouse Limited | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
| The Morgan State University Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hopeworks 'N Camden Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Apollo Theater Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Southern University | $24,090 | 2 | n/a |
| Carthage College | $24,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New York University | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Susquehanna University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| USC School of Medicine Greenville | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Tennessee | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Global Children Financial Literacy Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Southern Methodist University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Virginia State University | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Presbyterian College | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| California Institute of Technology | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| South Carolina State University | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| State University of New York at Binghamton | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Southern University-Baton Rouge | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Chapman University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tennessee Technological University | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Delaware | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Johnson C Smith University | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fisk University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alabama State University | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Central Missouri | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Norfolk State University | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of North Carolina at Charlotte | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Washington | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Washington University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of South Florida | $18,245 | 2 | n/a |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | $17,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit | $17,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Elizabeth City State University | $17,500 | 1 | n/a |
| High Point University | $17,500 | 1 | 0% |
| James Madison University | $16,491 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Scranton | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| California State University Northridge Foundation | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ramapo College of New Jersey | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Vcuvcu Health Campus | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kenyon College | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| New Dance Theatre Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Broward County Library Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northside Center for Child Development Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aidvantageus Dept Education | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Center for Economic Inclusion | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North Carolina Central University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Moore Wealth Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Albany State University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Syracuse University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Loyola University Maryland Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northeastern University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Franklin Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St John's University New York | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Purdue University Global Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington Government Relations Group | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Strive International Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prairie View A&M University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kennesaw State University Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Dayton | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Webster University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornell College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tougaloo College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boise State University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The College of Wooster | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| State University of New York College at Purchase | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Baker University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dillard University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Y-Knot Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clark Atlanta University Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| STREAM Innovations | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The University of Memphis | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Richmond | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jack and Jill of America Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Winston-Salem State University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Association of Black Journalists | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| When We All Vote | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Villanova University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| WEB Du Bois Museum Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Connecticut College | $8,245 | 1 | 0% |
| Missouri State University | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hampshire College Trustees | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New York Women's Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Florida International University Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| KREWE OF PYROS FOUNDATION Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 11% |
| Centre College | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North Carolina Central University | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Depaul University | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Action Network Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Clayton State University | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Executive Leadership Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 99 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 99.
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.
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN49.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation · Thurgood Marshall College Fund · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · The Howard University · Partnership for Education Advancement Inc · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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.
About Executive Leadership Council
- How much does Executive Leadership Council give?
- Executive Leadership Council reported 102 itemized grants totaling $3,956,309, out of $4,100,654 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 96 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Executive Leadership Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (83%), Civil Rights (5%), Community Improvement (4%).
- Who are Executive Leadership Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Howard University ($2.2M), North Carolina a & T State University ($835k), Hampton University ($550k).
- Does Executive Leadership Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Executive Leadership Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, Folds of Honor Foundation, American Chemical Society.
- Where is Executive Leadership Council based?
- Executive Leadership Council is based in DC.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home