· Private foundation
Judd Leighton Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Notre Dame | $1,015,000 |
| Mayo Foundation | $750,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| MORRIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $500,000 |
| ST MARGARET'S HOUSE | $500,000 |
| Community Foundation of St Joseph County | $481,250 |
| EnFocus | $450,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $325,000 |
| HEALTHLINC INC | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| The CASIE Center | $125,000 |
| REINS OF LIFE | $110,000 |
| POTAWATOMI ZOO | $100,000 |
| CORVILLA INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 15 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- EIENFOCUS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +370% · 28% of their budget
- LCLogan Community Resources Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +69%
Indiana University Foundation6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +97%
Funded once
- CGClaremont Graduate Universityone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -8%
- YSYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -62%
- PFPURDUE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $300k
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.
We, saint joseph regional medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc-south bend is a member of saint joseph regional…
We, saint joseph regional medical center (sjrmc) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc is a member of trinity health.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
We, saint joseph regional medical center, inc. and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.saint joseph regional medical center-plymouth campus…
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
The organization is committed to the advancement and vitality of downtown south bend through offering business resources, support, initiatives, and incentives; presenting marketing and events to attract visitors; and highlighting downtown…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riverbend Community Math Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 139 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ENFOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Elevate Ventures Inc ↗
- Who funds Beacon Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds St Margarets House ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds CDFI Friendly of South Bend Inc ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Holy Cross Village Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CASIE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE AMISTAD INC ↗
- Who funds POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Asante Foundation Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Memorial Hospital of South Bend Inc · Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn
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 Judd Leighton Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.