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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.

$272k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$342kCrime & Legal$288kInternational$283kRecreation & Sports$150kEducation$120kPhilanthropy$80kHuman Services$73kFood & Nutrition$59kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $181k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNRWA$12,500
ANERA$12,500
NATIONAL ATAXIA FOUNDATION$10,000
PROVIDENCE PLACE COWORKER FOUNDATION$10,000
LIFE INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$10,000
REACH PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT DEPT$7,500
THE LITERACY COUNCIL OF LANCASTER-LEBANON$7,500
COMPASSION & CHOICES$7,500
UNICEF$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $5k → 11%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $5k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $5k → 22%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
AR
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 37 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
40

Total granted

$1.3M
$242k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+14%

Still filing today

70%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
InternationalHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +36%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +37%
  • NA
    National Ataxia Foundation Incorporated
    7× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +408%

Funded once

  • HC
    HERSHEY COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +32%
  • SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -4%
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
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
3
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
4
Alliance for Aging Research

The alliance for aging research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.

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5
Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International
6
Alight

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…

International
7
Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc

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…

International
8
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
9
Christel House International Inc

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…

International
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
11
Human Rights Watch Inc

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,…

International
12
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
36/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF HERSHEY PARKS & RECREATION: $150,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF HERSHEY PARKS & RECREATIONNational Ataxia Foundation Incorporated: $89,500 · OtherNational Ataxia Foundation IncorporatedHERSHEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 · OtherHERSHEY COMMUNITY CENTERDERRY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherTEC CENTRO OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $25,000 · Other+49 more: $321,750 · Other+49 moreCHRISTIAN RECOVERY AFTERCARE MINISTRY INC: $208,500 · HealthCHRISTIAN RECOVERY AFTERCAR…PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $149,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONECYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $24,500 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION+4 more: $21,000 · HealthCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $200,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR AS…AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $12,500 · InternationalCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $12,250 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 · International+7 more: $26,000 · International+7 moreTHE JANUS SCHOOL: $69,500 · EducationLITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA: $32,000 · EducationTHREEFOLD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 · EducationAtlanta Speech School Inc: $5,000 · EducationSPOTLIGHT PA: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $4,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $65,000 · PhilanthropyCOUNTRY MEADOWS CO-WORKER FOUNDATION: $21,000 · PhilanthropyAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · PhilanthropyEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $40,000 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Crime & LegalKEYSTONE RESTITUERE JUSTICE CENTER: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $47,000 · Food & NutritionCOCOA PACKS INC: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$661,250Health$403,500International$272,750Education$123,500Philanthropy$92,500Crime & Legal$62,500Food & Nutrition$49,000

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 budgetCHRISTIAN RECOVERY AFTERCARE MINISTRY INC: $208,500 over 4y, 36% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $149,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNational Ataxia Foundation Incorporated: $89,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE JANUS SCHOOL: $69,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $47,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA: $32,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNTRY MEADOWS CO-WORKER FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLIFE INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $12,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF HARRISBURG AREA INC: $10,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCourtyard of Honor: $10,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPENNON ORGANIZATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEYSTONE RESTITUERE JUSTICE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHREEFOLD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLyme Disease Association Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSociety for American Archaeology: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAyiti Demen: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLATINO HISPANIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSPOTLIGHT PA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN TRANSITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY & PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERSHEY AREA PLAYHOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of the Cap…The Donald B and Doro…The Foundation for En…McCormick Family Fdn …Schwab-Silfen Foundat…Lancaster County Comm…Joseph T and Helen M …Kenneth Bankert Found…John Crain Kunkel Fou…Anne & Philip Glatfel…Community Aid IncCentral Pennsylvania …
United Way of the Capital RegionPA28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Leader Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leader Family Foundation 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 88 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home