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Leadership Legacy Life Foundation
Fund charitable organizations in the areas of animal welfare, arts & culture, children & youth services, community service, counseling, disabilities services, education, family, healthcare...
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $363k
- $250k+1 grant · $950k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau | $950,000 |
| Vision Cashiers Inc | $152,508 |
| Glenville Cashiers Rescue Squad | $110,000 |
| Breakthrough T1D (fka JDRF) | $100,000 |
| Fishes and Loaves Food Pantry | $11,000 |
| Blue Ridge Free Dental Clinic | $10,000 |
| Health Network Foundation | $10,000 |
| Cashiers Baptist Church | $10,000 |
| The Church of the Good Shephard | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +141% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +35%
- VCVISION CASHIERS INC3× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +257%
- GRGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC3× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- HCHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue -62%
- LSLESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +1%
- TVThe Village Green of Cashiers Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +62%
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.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Owensboro health twin lakes medical center exists to heal the sick and to improve the health of the communities we serve.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Southwestern vermont health care exists to provide exceptional health care and comfort to the people we serve. see schedule o for additional details.
Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.
The mission is to make visible god's love and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor, vulnerable and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds VISION CASHIERS INC ↗
- Who funds GLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Village Green of Cashiers Inc ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
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: Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Sneed Family Foundation · Sarracenia Foundation Inc · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · The Marvin and Helene Gralnick Foundation Inc · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · Tickle Family Foundation · Crj Foundation Inc · Hindman Family Charitable Trust · The David J Cooper Family Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Legacy Life 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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