How much did LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $32k
$10k–50k13 grants · $363k
$50k–250k2 grants · $174k

$24,047

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

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% — the area typically sits at 12%. 70% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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

Total granted

$5.8M

$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

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
8× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +89% · 37% of their budget
KL
KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $391k · revenue +199%
DL
DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +331%

Funded once

NL
NORTHWEST LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $34k
HH
HARBOR HOPE CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $23k · revenue +222%
LO
LION OF JUDAHgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +126%

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.

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

Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development

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

Leading for Change Inc

To provide leaders and emerging leaders with the necessary and effective tools, resources and networks to advance social and economic justice in their communities.

Public Benefit

Leadership Nashville Foundation

Leadership nashville invites local leaders to participate in an intensive leadership program

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Christian Leadership Alliance

Christian leadership alliance exists to equip and unite leaders called to transform the world for christ.

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Leighton Ford Ministries Inc

To be a catalyst for mentoring a new generation of healthy leaders who sustain thriving ministries for the sake of the gospel.

Religion

Discipling Marketplace Leaders

To empower the local church to establish and run successful Marketplace Ministries, empowering, equipping, encouraging and discipling business owners.

International

International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion

Summit Leadership Foundation

A relational hub that serves the local and broader businees, faith, and non-profit community through Connecting, Consulting, Coaching, and Caring

Religion

Leadership Transformation Inc

Our vision is for churches and Christian organizations to be filled with leaders who place spiritual formation, discernment, and renewal above all other leadership priorities. Our mission is to cultivate vibrant spirituality and attentive…

Religion

Leadership for Development

The mission of the organization is to provide educational and community development resources in developing countries throughout the world; provide aid to improvished, underprivileged, disadvantaged, sick and homeless or need persons…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harbor Hope Center. 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.

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 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/44

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,521

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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/38

Grantees still filing

29/38

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

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

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.

Stand Together FoundationVA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stand Together Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 organisation 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ROCK VALLEY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~124 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 461318064 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ROCK VALLEY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 124 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Leadership Foundations?

Find your warmest path to Leadership Foundations through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Leadership Foundations?

More from the funding graph

LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Leadership Foundations?

More from the funding graph