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· Public charity

Lead to Serve Inc

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

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MReligion$202kYouth Development$127kEducation$15k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $198,198, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,054,607 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,856,409 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $136k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$24,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPORTS CATALYST$55,200
SRS FOUNDATION$40,000
SATALLITE GAMING$29,000
LOGOSDOR INC$24,000
WORLD SPORTS$18,620
WIRED 4 SPORT$13,918
7 ADMIRALS LLC$10,000
REVIVAL SPORT INC$7,460
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Gordon Conwell Theological: $15k → 10%Our Legacy: $55k → 9%JSAW: $8k → 11%Baylor University - University Adv: $25k → 16%Empowered21: $100k → 15%World Sports: $320k → 11%World Sports: $147k → 13%Christian Skaters International (Orlando): $8k → 13%7 ADMIRALS LLC: $10k → 16%SATALLITE GAMING: $29k → 14%WIRED 4 SPORT: $14k → 3%Sycamore Ministries: $14k → 8%SRS FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%Asia Partners INC: $29k → 6%World Sports: $29k → 11%World Sports: $63k → 13%Logosdor: $15k → 13%Logosdor Inc: $50k → 16%Satellite Gaming: $12k → 14%Asia Partners Inc: $18k → 6%WORLD SPORTS: $19k → 11%World Sports: $40k → 13%Logosdor Inc: $30k → 16%Asia Partners INC: $10k → 6%LOGOSDOR INC: $24k → 16%Logosdor Inc: $15k → 16%Logosdor Inc: $8k → 16%Logosdor Inc: $7k → 16%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

MN
MA
OR
IN
CO
MD
OK
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $1.7M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $1.4M to organizations and $331k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$764k · 45% · 19 grants · 4 people

Stated purpose: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT · ADMIN AND OPERATING COSTS · SPORTS / LEADERSHIP TRAINING

Middle East and North Africa$359k · 21% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: COMMUNITY OUTREACH / DEVELOPMENT · SPORTS / LEADERSHIP TRAINING

East Asia and the Pacific$334k · 19% · 5 grants · 5 people

Stated purpose: SPORTS / LEADERSHIP TRAINING; CONFERENCE TRAINING EXPENSES · SPORTS / LEADERSHIP TRAINING · ADMIN AND OPERATING COSTS

South Asia$223k · 13% · 2 grants · 3 people

Stated purpose: SPORTS / LEADERSHIP TRAINING · TRAVEL ASSIST FOR TRAINING · MISC TRAINING EXPENSES

North America (Canada and Mexico)$20k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SPORTS / LEADERSHIP TRAINING

Central America and the Caribbean$10k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SPORTS / LEADERSHIP TRAINING

South America$6k · 0% · 1 person

Stated purpose: MISC TRAINING EXPENSES

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$1.1M
$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
ReligionRecreation & SportsEducationYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WS
    WORLD SPORTS INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $616k · revenue +13%
  • SC
    Sports Catalyst Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $115k · revenue +5%
  • AP
    ASIA PARTNERS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $57k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • OR
    ORAL ROBERTS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -8%
  • OL
    Our Legacy
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue -44%
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +11%
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
Christian Sports Association

Christian sport activites for youth

Education
2
Sportspersons Ministries Intl

Sportspersons ministries international exists to connect outdoors people with god, through trust in jesus christ. we do this by offering outdoors events with a ministry focus, aiding churches in their ministry efforts, and connecting…

Religion
3
Explore God Network
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4
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
5
Panthers U Sports Academy Ministries
Youth Development
6
4-12 Sports Ministries

The organizations mission is to equip and inspire athletes and coaches to train, compete and live for christ.

Youth Development
7
Sports Leadership Development Inc

Sports leadership development builds relationships, listens and serves. using the acts 1:8 model, we grow in missional relationships to witness and spread the gospel.

Recreation & Sports
8
Silk Wave Mission

SWM Mission is an abbreviation for Silk Wave Mission, and is an organization that serves as a united prayer movement, church planting movement, and missionary church movement for spiritual recovery and revival in Turkey and the Islamic…

Religion
9
Sacred Logos Resource Center Sagos

Aim to nature and train church leaders and believers alike to be well verse with the knowledge of the Scriptures. The primary vision of the organization is to train leaders and minsters to ground their teaching and preaching on solid…

Education
10
Restation Fellowship in Messiah

Religious studies

Religion
11
S E Ministries

None

Religion
12
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Revival Sport Inc; the most unlike its peers is Satellite Gaming. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD SPORTS INC: $616,390 · Recreation & SportsWORLD SPORTS INCREVIVAL SPORT INC: $131,085 · Recreation & SportsREVIVAL SPORT INCSports Catalyst Inc: $114,623 · Recreation & SportsSports Catalyst IncORAL ROBERTS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · ReligionORAL ROBERTS EVANGELISTI…ASIA PARTNERS INC: $56,900 · ReligionASIA PARTNERS INCOur Legacy: $54,657 · ReligionOur LegacySATELLITE GAMING: $41,000 · ReligionSATELLITE GAMINGSRS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · ReligionSRS FOUNDATION+1 more: $7,500 · ReligionLOGOSDOR INC: $148,918 · Youth DevelopmentLOGOSDOR INCCHRISTIAN SKATERS INCORPORATED: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $15,000 · EducationWIRED4SPORT: $13,918 · EducationSycamore Ministries: $14,000 · Other7 ADMIRALS LLC: $10,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $5,220 · Other
Recreation & Sports$862,098Religion$300,057Youth Development$156,418Education$53,918Other$29,220

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 IncInternational Generos…The Maclellan Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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