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Leadership Foundations

Developing, strengthening & sustaining local LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS for the social and spiritual renewal of their cities.

$703k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$1.9MReligion$1.1MYouth Development$858kEducation$556kPublic Benefit$386kArts & Culture$354kPhilanthropy$249kHuman Services$176kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 19 grants below total $568,418 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $703,210 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $134,792 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $363k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $174k
$24,047
Median grant
16
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$99,971
ROOT CELLAR$73,635
ON RAMPS COVENANT CHURCH$45,800
BILLINGS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$42,970
MIAMI VALLEY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$39,789
METRO ATLANTA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$37,880
KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$33,190
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CAPE FEAR$31,939
DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$29,243
PHILADELPHIA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$24,047
TRANSFORM SCOTT COUNTY$23,718
NEW VISION$16,965
LEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$13,410
JUSTICE JOURNEY ALLIANCE$13,350
20 20 VISION FOR SCHOOLS INC DBA THRIVE COLLECTIVE$10,420
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FIRST COAST LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%JACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $34k → 23%TRANSFORM SCOTT COUNTY: $24k → 8%FIRST COAST LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $558 → 14%JACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $24k → 23%TRANSFORM SCOTT COUNTY: $21k → 8%JACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $11k → 23%TRANSFORM SCOTT COUNTY: $8k → 8%JACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $9k → 23%JACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $9k → 23%NEW VISION: $17k → 20%NEW VISION: $6k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
IA
OH
PA
CA
KY
WV
AZ
TN
NC
SC
MS
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $76k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

India$46k · 61% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO PROVIDE OPERATING COSTS FOR THE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$17k · 22% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO PROVIDE OPERATING COSTS FOR THE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION.

Sub-Saharan Africa$13k · 18% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO PROVIDE OPERATING COSTS FOR THE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION.

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. 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 38 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
6

Total granted

$5.8M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+311%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEducationOther

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

  • MA
    METRO ATLANTA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +89% · 37% of their budget
  • KL
    KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $391k · revenue +199%
  • TR
    THE ROOT CELLAR
    8× · 2017–2024 · $368k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • NL
    NORTHWEST LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $34k
  • HH
    Harbor Hope Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $23k · revenue +169%
  • LO
    LION OF JUDAH MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +121%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Urban Leaders Fellowship

The mission of Urban Leaders Fellowship is to transform communities through people, partnership, and policy. ULF pursues this mission through our flagship program, a leadership development Fellowship focused on practical experience in…

Civil Rights
2
Life Transforming Leadership Foundation Inc

Organization provides educational opportunities, training experiences, and support for church congregations. small neighborhood groups, and individuals in urban areas, who are brought together to address the complex social issues affecting…

—
3
Radical Mentoring Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Leadership Consortium

TLCs vision is to promote the development individuals as community leaders. This is achieved through comprehensive instruction, professional training, and career development programs designed to improve their skills and capabilities.

Education
5
New City Networks

New City Networks exists to bring whole life transformation to under-resourced youth in the US and globally. In the US we operate two full leadership development programs that employ over 60 youth 200 days a year.

Youth Development
6
Leader Foundation
—
7
Mtf Leadership Institute
Arts & Culture
8
Orthodox Christian Leadership Initiative

Orthodox Christian Coaching supports adaptive leadership practice through professional coaching for: Seminary graduates who are embarking on new ministries, priests and ministry leaders who have accepted new parish assignments, lay and…

Religion
9
The Servant Leadership Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance Inc
—
11
Lx Ministries Inc

Our mission is to multiply the global impact and influence of Christian leaders and pastors throughout their organizations and communities. Our activities involve working with members of the leadership of other exclusively charitable…

Religion
12
Church Leadership Center Inc
Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Champions in Service San Fernando Valley and Greater Los Angeles. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Mentoring ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Development ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/44
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,521

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.

04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 44 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METRO ATLANTA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $394,762 · OtherMETRO ATLANTA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDTHE ROOT CELLAR — $368,161 · OtherTHE ROOT CELLARWILMINGTON AREA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $363,410 · OtherWILMINGTON AREA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONPHILADELPHIA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $228,601 · OtherPHILADELPHIA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONCHARLESTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $219,876 · OtherCHARLESTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $142,862 · OtherRESTORE — $124,461 · OtherLANE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $107,538 · OtherFoundation for Renewable Energy and the Environment — $155,190 · Other+20 more — $934,989 · Other+20 moreMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $680,429 · Youth DevelopmentMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP …Miami Valley Leadership Foundation — $303,931 · Youth DevelopmentMiami Valley Leader…+1 more — $14,752 · Youth DevelopmentKNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $391,438 · ReligionKNOXVILLE LE…FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC — $149,694 · ReligionFRIENDSHIP H…INDIAN MINISTRIES OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $121,789 · ReligionINDIAN MINIS…+1 more — $1,923 · ReligionDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $354,516 · Public BenefitPHILADELPHIALEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $31,483 · Public BenefitLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $353,713 · Arts & CultureBILLINGS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $249,347 · PhilanthropyJACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $98,964 · Human ServicesTransform Scott County Inc — $52,618 · Human ServicesNEW VISION RENEWABLE ENERGY INC — $22,625 · Human ServicesKINGDOM PARTNERS — $20,800 · Human Services
Other$3,039,850Youth Development$999,112Religion$664,844Public Benefit$385,999Arts & Culture$353,713Philanthropy$249,347Human Services$195,007

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $680,429 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetMETRO ATLANTA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $394,762 over 8y, 37% of budgetKNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $391,438 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetTHE ROOT CELLAR — $368,161 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $354,516 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $353,713 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetMiami Valley Leadership Foundation — $303,931 over 8y, 51% of budgetBILLINGS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $249,347 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetFoundation for Renewable Energy and the Environment — $155,190 over 5y, 62% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC — $149,694 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $142,862 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORE — $124,461 over 3y, 20% of budgetINDIAN MINISTRIES OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $121,789 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetLANE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $107,538 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetJACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $98,964 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetTHE CONTINGENT — $98,804 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $98,290 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPITTSBURGH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $91,151 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LEADERSHIP CALIFORNIA — $83,826 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetONE BY ONE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $60,572 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetLEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS — $58,261 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJUSTICE JOURNEY EXPERIENCE — $57,808 over 5y, 16% of budgetNEXT CHAPTER MINISTRIES — $54,541 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTransform Scott County Inc — $52,618 over 3y, 10% of budgetBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $49,698 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIALEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $31,483 over 2y, 21% of budgetJUSTICE FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $25,304 over 2y, 98% of budget20 20 Vision For Schools Inc — $24,874 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHarbor Hope Center — $23,056 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNEW VISION RENEWABLE ENERGY INC — $22,625 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLION OF JUDAH MINISTRIES INC — $22,413 over 1y, 13% of budgetCHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES — $21,034 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKINGDOM PARTNERS — $20,800 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLOUISVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $19,887 over 2y, 28% of budgetVISION URBANA INC — $16,735 over 1y, 12% of budgetCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $15,143 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBE A MENTOR INC — $14,752 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetNeighborhood Ministries Inc — $1,923 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Leadership Foundations 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Contingent — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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