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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 FY2024still arriving
102
Grants FY2024still arriving
29
States reached
$534k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 102 grants below total $3,956,309, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,100,654 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $144,345 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k83 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $990k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$15,000
Median grant
29
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$534,315
THE HERMAN J RUSSELL CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC$400,000
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND$300,000
JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES$300,000
NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY$220,901
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$150,000
SPELMAN COLLEGE$128,000
ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY$112,500
FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY$100,000
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE$70,568
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$58,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,000
BLACK MEN VOTE$50,000
CIVIC NATION$50,000
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$48,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%STARTING WITH TODAY: $25k → 11%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONS: $8k → 17%GARDHOUSE LIMITED: $25k → 10%MOORE WEALTH INC: $10k → 11%NATIONAL CARES MENTORING MOVEMENT: $10k → 17%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

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
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Executive Leadership Council’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Executive Leadership Councillessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 87 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

87 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
52

Total granted

$9.0M
$785k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+29%

Still filing today

45%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther
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

  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +46%
  • DS
    DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $375k · revenue +29%
  • TF
    The Foundation for NC A&T State University
    2× · 2022–2023 · $260k · revenue ×23

Funded once

  • II
    INROADS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +123%
  • CD
    COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -5%
  • WD
    WEB DUBOIS SCHOLARS INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +64%
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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
12
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Y-Knot Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

113 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. 113 of the 179 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/113
Grantees still filing
81/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $2,159,130 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $549,700 · EducationHAMPTON UNIVERSITYSpelman College: $409,990 · EducationSpelman CollegeDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $375,000 · EducationDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITYDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 · EducationDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCCenter for Innovations in Education: $250,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $208,158 · Education+68 more: $1,801,245 · Education+68 moreNORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITY: $835,191 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $293,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKThe Foundation for NC A&T State University: $260,000 · OtherThe Foundation for NC A&T State Universi…Alabama A&M University: $224,500 · OtherAlabama A&M UniversityFLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY TERM: $211,700 · Other+81 more: $2,286,041 · Other+81 moreRUSSELL INNOVATION CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC: $400,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION: $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsBLACK MEN VOTE: $50,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsJOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC: $300,000 · Social ScienceTHE HISTORYMAKERS: $55,000 · Arts & CultureAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNEW DANCE THEATRE INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWEB Du Bois Museum Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKREWE OF PYROS FOUNDATION Inc: $7,500 · Arts & CultureENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$6,078,223Other$4,110,932Community Improvement$425,000Civil Rights$408,000Social Science$300,000Arts & Culture$132,500Philanthropy$95,000

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 budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $2,159,130 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $549,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSpelman College: $409,990 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRUSSELL INNOVATION CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC: $400,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $375,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC: $300,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetThe Foundation for NC A&T State University: $260,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCenter for Innovations in Education: $250,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $208,158 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $102,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINROADS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCornell University: $99,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HISTORYMAKERS: $55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM - SILICON VALLEY: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCivic Nation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK MEN VOTE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWEB DUBOIS SCHOLARS INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $48,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $47,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $42,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $31,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTARTING WITH TODAY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGardHouse Limited: $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds RUSSELL INNOVATION CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Foundation for NC A&T State University ↗
  • Who funds Center for Innovations in Education ↗
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
  • Who funds INROADS INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds THE HISTORYMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM - SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Civic Nation ↗
  • Who funds BLACK MEN VOTE ↗

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 A…Folds of Honor Founda…American Chemical Soc…Tulsa Community Found…Thurgood Marshall Col…Strada Education Foun…Corporation for Publi…The Howard UniversityPartnership for Educa…Educational Credit Ma…Hispanic Scholarship …Howard Hughes Medical…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Executive Leadership Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Executive Leadership Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Delaware State University: 18% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Bethune-Cookman University: 6% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 179 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 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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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