· Public charity
Leadership Funding Foundation
To operate solely for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of Denver Leadership Foundation.
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Leadership Funding Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to New Horizons Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Leadership Funding Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $132k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $132,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $149,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,500 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Colorado Christian University | $40,000 |
| Denver Leadership Foundation | $22,000 |
| Global Trust Partners | $20,000 |
| Mile High Ministries | $15,000 |
| New Horizons Foundation | $12,600 |
| Doane College | $11,500 |
| New Life In Christ Church | $11,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $327k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $557k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MHMILE HIGH MINISTRIES5× · 2017–2022 · $231k · revenue +16%
- CCROSSPURPOSE2× · 2017–2018 · $170k · revenue ×13
- ECEVANGELICAL COUNCIL FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY2× · 2017–2018 · $165k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- DSDowning Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carrone grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue -40%
- GGod4Wordone grant, 2017 · $13k
- CYCOVENANT YOUTH OF ALASKA-ECC OF ALASKAone grant, 2017 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Rigorous biblical and accessible education, training and resources for churches worldwide.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
The Urban Alternative is a Christian Ministry that seeks to equip, empower, and unite Christians to impact individuals, families, churches, and communities for the rebuilding of lives from the inside out.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Uplift Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Hayward House of Hope Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Denver Leadership Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL COUNCIL FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds WHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC ↗
- Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Global Trust Partners ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Joy To The World Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Downing Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds COLORADO VOLUNTEERS IN JUVENILE & CRIMINAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Urban Skye ↗
- Who funds GREATER HAYWARD HOUSE OF HOPE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHANNELMOM MEDIA ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Tyl Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Denver Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · G & G Outreach Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Eugene C and Florence Armstrong Family Foundation Inc · Lewan Family 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 Funding Foundation 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.
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.
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