· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 102 grants below total $3,956,309 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,100,654 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $144,345 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k83 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $990k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| BLACK MEN VOTE | $50,000 |
| CIVIC NATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $48,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Executive Leadership Council’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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 UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +46%- DSDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $375k · revenue +29%
- TFThe Foundation for NC A&T State University2× · 2022–2023 · $260k · revenue ×23
Funded once
- IIINROADS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +123%
- CDCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -5%
- WDWEB DUBOIS SCHOLARS INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +64%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
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…
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.
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Education and Research
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
113 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 BLACK MEN VOTE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM - SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Civic Nation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Executive Leadership Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.