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Leader Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k22 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $181k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITOL REGION | $35,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE | $32,500 |
| TEC CENTRO OF THE CAPITAL REGION | $25,000 |
| THE JANUS SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| ANERA | $12,500 |
| UNRWA | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL ATAXIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LIFE INC | $10,000 |
| PROVIDENCE PLACE COWORKER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $10,000 |
| REACH PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT DEPT | $7,500 |
| COMPASSION & CHOICES | $7,500 |
| THE LITERACY COUNCIL OF LANCASTER-LEBANON | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +17% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +36%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE7× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +37%
- NANational Ataxia Foundation Incorporated7× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +408%
Funded once
- HCHERSHEY COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2022 · $50k
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -4%
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +32%
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The alliance for aging research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ztl Educational Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 88 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 CHRISTIAN RECOVERY AFTERCARE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE ↗
- Who funds National Ataxia Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE JANUS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY MEADOWS CO-WORKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARRISBURG AREA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE RESTITUERE JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Courtyard of Honor ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds PENNON ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THREEFOLD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds Lyme Disease 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: United Way of the Capital Region · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Community Aid Inc · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank
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 Leader Family Foundation 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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.
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