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Leadership Foundations

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

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$1.9MReligion$1.1MYouth Development$858kEducation$556kPublic Benefit$386kArts & Culture$354kPhilanthropy$249kHuman Services$176kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $564,537, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,206,148 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $641,611 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $497k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$33,208
Median grant
15
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$60,793
ROOT CELLAR$43,271
KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$41,950
SSLF MOLE$37,082
DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$36,290
MIAMI VALLEY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$36,165
ON RAMPS COVENANT CHURCH$35,883
LEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$35,858
NEW VISION$34,279
BILLINGS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$33,208
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CAPE FEAR$29,479
METRO ATLANTA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$24,250
BE A MENTOR$23,340
20 20 VISION FOR SCHOOLS INC DBA THRIVE COLLECTIVE$21,602
PHILADELPHIA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$18,599
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 (FY20–25, $243k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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: $16k → 23%TRANSFORM SCOTT COUNTY: $18k → 8%JACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $11k → 23%TRANSFORM SCOTT COUNTY: $8k → 8%JACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $9k → 23%NEW VISION: $34k → 20%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
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
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
IA
OH
PA
CA
KY
WV
AZ
TN
NC
SC
MS
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $236k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Kenya$105k · 45% · 1 grant

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

India$99k · 42% · 1 grant

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

North America (Canada and Mexico)$22k · 9% · 1 grant

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

Sub-Saharan Africa$10k · 4% · 1 grant

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

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 38 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
6

Total granted

$6.4M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+311%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • KL
    KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $433k · revenue +571%
  • MA
    METRO ATLANTA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $419k · revenue +89% · 37% of their budget
  • TR
    THE ROOT CELLAR
    9× · 2017–2025 · $411k · 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%
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
Radical Mentoring Foundation
Philanthropy
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…

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3
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
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
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
6
Mtf Leadership Institute
Arts & Culture
7
Leader Foundation
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8
The Servant Leadership Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance Inc
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10
Lifeforce Christian Foundation

Teen arts mentorship program

Philanthropy
11
The Rev Foundation Inc
Community Improvement
12
Texas Leadership Summit

Empowering everyday leaders with courage, tools and hope to ignite a revival of christian leadership.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Justice for All 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

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

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METRO ATLANTA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $419,012 · OtherMETRO ATLANTA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDTHE ROOT CELLAR: $411,432 · OtherTHE ROOT CELLARWILMINGTON AREA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $392,889 · OtherWILMINGTON AREA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONPHILADELPHIA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $247,200 · OtherPHILADELPHIA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONCHARLESTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $219,876 · OtherCHARLESTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $142,862 · OtherRESTORE: $124,461 · OtherON RAMPS COVENANT CHURCH-FRESNO CA: $115,343 · OtherFoundation for Renewable Energy and the Environment: $155,190 · Other+20 more: $1,032,885 · Other+20 moreMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $741,222 · Youth DevelopmentMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP …Miami Valley Leadership Foundation: $340,096 · Youth DevelopmentMiami Valley Leader…BE A MENTOR INC: $38,092 · Youth DevelopmentKNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $433,388 · 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: $390,806 · Public BenefitPHILADELPHIALEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $31,483 · Public BenefitLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $389,571 · Arts & CultureBILLINGS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $282,555 · PhilanthropyJACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $114,974 · Human ServicesTransform Scott County Inc: $70,733 · Human ServicesNEW VISION RENEWABLE ENERGY INC: $56,904 · Human ServicesKINGDOM PARTNERS: $28,029 · Human Services
Other$3,261,150Youth Development$1,119,410Religion$706,794Public Benefit$422,289Arts & Culture$389,571Philanthropy$282,555Human Services$270,640

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 budgetMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $741,222 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetKNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $433,388 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetMETRO ATLANTA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $419,012 over 9y, 37% of budgetTHE ROOT CELLAR: $411,432 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $390,806 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $389,571 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetMiami Valley Leadership Foundation: $340,096 over 9y, 51% of budgetBILLINGS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $282,555 over 6y, 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 budgetJACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $114,974 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetLANE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $107,538 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CONTINGENT: $98,804 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $98,290 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS: $95,343 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $91,151 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LEADERSHIP CALIFORNIA: $83,826 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetTransform Scott County Inc: $70,733 over 4y, 10% of budgetONE BY ONE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $60,572 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetJUSTICE JOURNEY EXPERIENCE: $57,808 over 5y, 16% of budgetNEW VISION RENEWABLE ENERGY INC: $56,904 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNEXT CHAPTER MINISTRIES: $54,541 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $49,698 over 2y, 0.0% of budget20 20 Vision For Schools Inc: $46,476 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBE A MENTOR INC: $38,092 over 3y, 14% of budgetPHILADELPHIALEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $31,483 over 2y, 21% of budgetKINGDOM PARTNERS: $28,029 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $26,277 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUSTICE FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $25,304 over 2y, 98% of budgetHarbor Hope Center: $23,056 over 1y, 5.9% 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 budgetLOUISVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $19,887 over 2y, 28% of budgetVISION URBANA INC: $16,735 over 1y, 12% of budgetNeighborhood Ministries Inc: $1,923 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds METRO ATLANTA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE ROOT CELLAR ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Miami Valley Leadership Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BILLINGS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Renewable Energy and the Environment ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RESTORE ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN MINISTRIES OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LANE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CONTINGENT ↗
  • Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LEADERSHIP CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Transform Scott County Inc ↗
  • Who funds ONE BY ONE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE JOURNEY EXPERIENCE ↗
  • Who funds NEW VISION RENEWABLE ENERGY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT CHAPTER MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds 20 20 Vision For Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds BE A MENTOR INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIALEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KINGDOM PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Harbor Hope Center ↗
  • Who funds LION OF JUDAH MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.

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 44 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home