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Judd Leighton Foundation Inc at a glance

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Judd Leighton Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$9.3MPhilanthropy$8.8MHealth$6.1MCommunity Improvement$5.1MEducation$4.9MHuman Services$2.5MArts & Culture$1.8MPublic Benefit$1.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+9 grants · $4.9M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$150M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Notre Dame$1,015,000
Mayo Foundation$750,000
MORRIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$500,000
ST MARGARET'S HOUSE$500,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
Community Foundation of St Joseph County$481,250
EnFocus$450,000
Individual grant recipient$400,000
Individual grant recipient$325,000
Individual grant recipient$200,000
HEALTHLINC INC$200,000
The CASIE Center$125,000
REINS OF LIFE$110,000
REGIONAL INNOVATION & STARTUP EDUCATION$100,000
IUSB-Leighton School of Business & Economics$100,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Family & Childrens Center: $3k → 12%St Vincent DePaul of St Joseph County Inc: $60k → 13%St Vincent Depaul Society if St Joseph Co: $32k → 13%Family and Children Center Foundation Inc: $10k → 13%Center for Hospice and Palliative Care: $100k → 13%THE CENTER FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $2k → 13%Hannah's House: $25k → 13%YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $500k → 13%CORVILLA INC: $100k → 13%CORVILLA INC: $100k → 13%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SOUTH BEND INC: $25k → 13%The Christ Child Society of South Bend: $50k → 13%The Christ Child Society of South Bend: $25k → 13%The Christ Child Society of South Bend: $25k → 13%CULTIVATING LIFE: $100k → 13%Upper Room Recovery Community: $64k → 13%UPPER ROOM RECOVERY COMMUNITY INC: $25k → 13%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

ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
IN
CA
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 70 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
51

Total granted

$29M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
-3%

Still filing today

61%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • EI
    ENFOCUS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +370% · 28% of their budget
  • LC
    Logan Community Resources Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +69%
  • Indiana University Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • CG
    Claremont Graduate University
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -8%
  • YS
    YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -62%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
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.

1
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center- South Bend Campus Inc

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…

Health
2
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Inc

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.

Health
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
7
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center - Plymouth Campus Inc

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…

Health
8
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

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…

Health
9
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Living Community of St Joseph

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…

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11
Downtown South Bend Inc Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 139 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/78
Grantees still filing
49/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mayo Foundation: $3,510,000 · OtherMayo FoundationCITY OF SOUTH BEND: $1,500,000 · OtherCITY OF SOUTH BENDLogan Community Resources Inc: $1,406,250 · OtherLogan Community Resources IncIndiana University School of Medicine: $1,220,000 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineIndividual grant recipient: $1,200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMORRIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $1,000,000 · OtherIUSB-Leighton School of Business & Economics: $900,000 · OtherHospice Foundation: $818,750 · Other+86 more: $9,407,280 · Other+86 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $9,033,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du…Indiana University Foundation: $1,368,250 · EducationIndiana University Foundati…Claremont Graduate University: $500,000 · Education+7 more: $935,000 · Education+7 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $4,930,100 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FO…UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…ENFOCUS INC: $2,795,975 · Community ImprovementENFOCUS INCElevate Ventures Inc: $1,200,000 · Community ImprovementElevate Ven…CDFI Friendly of South Bend Inc: $500,000 · Community ImprovementCDFI Friend…SOUTH BEND HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $190,160 · Community Improvement+4 more: $164,000 · Community ImprovementBeacon Health Foundation Inc: $1,050,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $500,000 · HealthO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $103,000 · HealthCLUBHOUSE OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $100,000 · Health+5 more: $153,000 · HealthYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesCORVILLA INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SOUTH BEND INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $102,000 · Human ServicesCULTIVATING LIFE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $92,000 · Human ServicesUPPER ROOM RECOVERY COMMUNITY INC: $88,800 · Human ServicesREAL SERVICES INC: $82,000 · Human Services+3 more: $37,500 · Human ServicesSt Margarets House: $815,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP MILLHOUSE INC: $180,000 · Recreation & SportsINDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $32,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$22,162,280Education$11,836,250Philanthropy$5,230,100Community Improvement$4,850,135Health$1,906,000Human Services$1,327,300Recreation & Sports$1,102,000

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 budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $9,033,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $4,930,100 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetENFOCUS INC: $2,795,975 over 8y, 28% of budgetLogan Community Resources Inc: $1,406,250 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $1,368,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetElevate Ventures Inc: $1,200,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetBeacon Health Foundation Inc: $1,050,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetSt Margarets House: $815,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $506,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetClaremont Graduate University: $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCDFI Friendly of South Bend Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $425,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHoly Cross Village Foundation Inc: $419,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetTHE CASIE CENTER INC: $400,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC: $325,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $300,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetREINS OF LIFE INC: $267,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLA CASA DE AMISTAD INC: $250,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetPOTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $250,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $205,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCORVILLA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH BEND HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $190,160 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetNORTHERN INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $188,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetCAMP MILLHOUSE INC: $180,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $175,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SOUTH BEND INC: $125,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetHUMAN DELTA INC: $120,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $103,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $102,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH BEND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetREGIONAL INNOVATION AND STARTUP EDUCATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCULTIVATING LIFE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCLUBHOUSE OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $98,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $92,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUPPER ROOM RECOVERY COMMUNITY INC: $88,800 over 2y, 33% of budgetREAL SERVICES INC: $82,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUnity Gardens: $75,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetSOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC: $52,000 over 1y, 3.7% 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 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 Claremont Graduate University ↗
  • Who funds CDFI Friendly of South Bend Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …University of Notre D…1st Source Bank Found…Carroll F V Char Tr-M…Community Foundation …Asante Foundation IncThe Pokagon Fund IncClark Sa & Fp Mem Fd …United Way of St Jose…Memorial Hospital of …Muessel Ellison Mem I…Klockow Harvey R and …
Community Foundation of St Joseph County IncIN88.9× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Judd Leighton Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judd Leighton Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 139 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-PF 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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