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Lead to Serve Inc

Provides training and other empowerment support activities for individuals, families, communities, and organizations.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$198k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$24,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$55,200
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$2.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Lead to Serve Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$198k38%
FY20235$235k40%
FY20227$440k57%
FY20215$61k60%
FY20202$18k50%
FY20194$150k25%
FY20182$66k0%
FY20173$234kn/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.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MReligion$202kYouth Development$127kEducation$15k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MA
OR
IN
CO
MD
OK
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.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
World Sports Inc$616,390613%
Logosdor Inc$148,918711%
Revival Sport Inc$131,08546%
Sports Catalyst Inc$114,62332%
Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association$100,00012%
Asia Partners Inc$56,90031%
Our Legacy$54,65716%
Satellite Gaming$41,000212%
Srs Foundation$40,000111%
Baylor University$25,00010%
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All grantees of Lead to Serve Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
World Sports Inc$616,390613%
Logosdor Inc$148,918711%
Revival Sport Inc$131,08546%
Sports Catalyst Inc$114,62332%
Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association$100,00012%
Asia Partners Inc$56,90031%
Our Legacy$54,65716%
Satellite Gaming$41,000212%
Srs Foundation$40,000111%
Baylor University$25,00010%
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc$15,00010%
Sycamore Ministries$14,0001n/a
Wired4sport$13,91816%
7 Admirals LLC$10,0001n/a
JSAW xtreme$7,50012%
Christian Skaters Incorporated$7,500116%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$5,2201n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lead to Serve Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorld Sports Inc: $616,390 over 6y, 13% of budgetLogosdor Inc: $148,918 over 7y, 11% of budgetRevival Sport Inc: $131,085 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetSports Catalyst Inc: $114,623 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOral Roberts Evangelistic Association: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAsia Partners Inc: $56,900 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOur Legacy: $54,657 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetSatellite Gaming: $41,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSrs Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBaylor University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWired4sport: $13,918 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetJSAW xtreme: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetChristian Skaters Incorporated: $7,500 over 1y, 16% of budget

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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 14.

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.

Logosdor IncFL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Logosdor Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Lead to Serve Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lead to Serve Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Lead to Serve Inc

How much does Lead to Serve Inc give?
Lead to Serve Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $198,198, out of $2,054,607 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lead to Serve Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (75%), Religion (14%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are Lead to Serve Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: World Sports Inc ($616k), Logosdor Inc ($149k), Revival Sport Inc ($131k).
Does Lead to Serve Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lead to Serve Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Logosdor Inc, International Generosity Foundation Trust, The Maclellan Foundation Inc.
Where is Lead to Serve Inc based?
Lead to Serve Inc is based in CA.

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 17 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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