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Leadership Funding Foundation at a glance

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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.

$150k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

52% of Leadership Funding Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The 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

13
’17
10
’18
12
’19
6
’20
3
’21
14
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2022.

Religion$935kPhilanthropy$924kEducation$323kPublic Benefit$283kInternational$200kCommunity Improvement$170kYouth Development$129kHuman Services$46kOther$0
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $132,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $149,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,500 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.
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Joy to the World: $40k → 9%Neighborhood Ministries: $24k → 12%Neighborhood Ministries: $20k → 12%Neighborhood Ministries: $6k → 12%Joy to the World Foundation: $6k → 9%Mile High Ministries: $150k → 12%Mile High Ministries: $31k → 12%Mile High Ministries: $25k → 12%Mile High Ministries: $15k → 12%Mile High Ministries: $11k → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 13 repeat orgs$624k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$1.5M
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+3%

Still filing today

85%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $557k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MH
    MILE HIGH MINISTRIES
    5× · 2017–2022 · $231k · revenue +16%
  • C
    CROSSPURPOSE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $170k · revenue ×13
  • EC
    EVANGELICAL COUNCIL FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $165k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • DS
    Downing Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr
    one grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue -40%
  • G
    God4Word
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • CY
    COVENANT YOUTH OF ALASKA-ECC OF ALASKA
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Kingdom Advisors Inc

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…

Religion
3
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
4
Denver Area Youth for Christ Inc
Youth Development
5
Youthfront Inc

Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.

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6
Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion
7
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

—
8
Union Foundation Us

Rigorous biblical and accessible education, training and resources for churches worldwide.

Religion
9
UrbanPromise Charlotte

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.

Youth Development
10
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
11
The Urban Alternative

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.

Religion
12
Manna University

Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Uplift Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The New Horizons Foundation Inc: $897,078 · PhilanthropyThe New Horizons Foundation Inc+1 more: $26,500 · PhilanthropySUMMIT MINISTRIES INC: $250,000 · OtherSUMMIT MINISTRIES INCHERITAGE EAGLE BEND COMMUNITYCHURCH: $58,000 · OtherHERITAGE EAGLE BEND COM…CROSSPURPOSE: $170,000 · OtherCROSSPURPOSEURBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES: $40,000 · OtherURBAN YOUTH MINISTRIESTHE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC: $40,000 · OtherTHE MASTER'S APPRENTICE…+7 more: $75,433 · Other+7 moreWHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC: $131,229 · EducationWHIZ KIDS TUT…DOANE UNIVERSITY: $101,500 · EducationDOANE UNIVERS…Colorado Christian University: $82,250 · EducationColorado Chri…COLORADO UPLIFT INC: $60,000 · EducationCOLORADO UPLI…MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $231,000 · Human ServicesMILE HIGH MI…NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD…Joy To The World Foundation: $46,211 · Human ServicesJoy To The W…EVANGELICAL COUNCIL FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY: $165,000 · ReligionEVANGELICAL…Global Trust Partners: $90,000 · ReligionGlobal Trus…East-West Ministries International: $20,000 · ReligionEast-West M…Urban Skye: $12,000 · Religion+2 more: $20,000 · Religion+2 moreDenver Leadership Foundation: $283,100 · Public BenefitDenver Lea…HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST: $200,000 · International
Philanthropy$923,578Other$633,433Education$374,979Human Services$327,211Religion$307,000Public Benefit$283,100International$200,000

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 budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $897,078 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetDenver Leadership Foundation: $283,100 over 6y, 26% of budgetSUMMIT MINISTRIES INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $231,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST: $200,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCROSSPURPOSE: $170,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetEVANGELICAL COUNCIL FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY: $165,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC: $131,229 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetDOANE UNIVERSITY: $101,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Trust Partners: $90,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetColorado Christian University: $82,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetJoy To The World Foundation: $46,211 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES: $40,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetDowning Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr: $26,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUrban Skye: $12,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER HAYWARD HOUSE OF HOPE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCHANNELMOM MEDIA: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $8,333 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

The New Horizons Foun…Tyl FoundationChristian Community F…Colorado Gives Founda…The Signatry Charitab…The Denver FoundationServant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…G & G Outreach Founda…Schlessman Foundation…The Eugene C and Flor…Lewan Family Foundati…
The New Horizons Foundation IncCO30× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Leadership Funding Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Leadership Funding Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 29 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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