Washington · Public charity
Leadership Foundations
Developing, strengthening & sustaining local LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS for the social and spiritual renewal of their cities.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $565k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $33,208
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,793
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Leadership Foundations funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $565k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $568k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $630k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $933k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $831k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $865k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $443k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $964k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc | $741,222 | 9 | 7% |
| Knoxville Leadership Foundation Inc | $433,388 | 9 | 4% |
| Metro Atlanta Leadership Foundation Incorporated | $419,012 | 9 | 37% |
| The Root Cellar | $411,432 | 9 | 9% |
| Wilmington Area Leadership Foundation | $392,889 | 9 | n/a |
| Dallas Leadership Foundation | $390,806 | 9 | 4% |
| Lexington Leadership Foundation Inc | $389,571 | 8 | 5% |
| Miami Valley Leadership Foundation | $340,096 | 9 | 51% |
| Billings Leadership Foundation | $282,555 | 6 | 7% |
| Philadelphia Leadership Foundation | $247,200 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 44 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Leadership Foundations supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Leadership Foundations
- How much does Leadership Foundations give?
- Leadership Foundations reported 19 itemized grants totaling $564,537, out of $1,206,148 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Leadership Foundations fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (32%), Religion (19%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are Leadership Foundations's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc ($741k), Knoxville Leadership Foundation Inc ($433k), Metro Atlanta Leadership Foundation Incorporated ($419k).
- Does Leadership Foundations fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Leadership Foundations?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America, Network for Good.
- Where is Leadership Foundations based?
- Leadership Foundations is based in WA.
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