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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...

$317k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.1MHealth$495kCommunity Improvement$182kPublic Safety & Disaster$160kEducation$25kRecreation & Sports$20kReligion$20kArts & Culture$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $290,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $317,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,000 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 · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $253k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vision Cashiers Inc$102,500
Breakthrough T1D (fka JDRF)$100,000
Special Operations Fund$50,000
American Red Cross$10,000
Pisgah Legal Services$10,000
Duke Energy Share the Light Fund$10,000
Health Network Foundation$7,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Health Network Foundation: $10k → 15%Vision Cashiers Inc: $153k → 18%Health Network Foundation: $8k → 15%Vision Cashiers Inc: $103k → 18%Vision Cashiers Inc: $30k → 18%Vision Cashiers Inc: $8k → 18%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 5 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$2.0M
$183k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +35%
  • VC
    VISION CASHIERS INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $293k · revenue +257%
  • GR
    GLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • HC
    Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue -5%
  • LS
    LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +1%
  • TV
    The Village Green of Cashiers Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +62%
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
Unc Health Foundation Inc

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.

Education
2
Piedmont Health Foundation
Health
3
Carolina Medicorp Enterprises Inc

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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4
Mcleod Health Foundation

The mission of mcleod health foundation is to generate philanthropic and community support to perpetuate medical excellence at mcleod health.

Health
5
Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health
6
Novant Medical Group Inc

Our cause we create a healthier future and bring remarkable experiences to life. discover we consistently seek to innovate, courageously transform ourselves and find new ways to add value for our patients, communities and one another.…

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7
Duke University Affiliated Physicians Inc

To provide community-based, high quality and efficient patient care through a comprehensive primary care network that is responsive to our community's changing healthcare needs.

Health
8
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
9
Novant Health Inc

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
10
Presbyterian Hospital Foundation

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
11
Wakemed

The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.

Health
12
Duke University Health System Inc

Duhs, as part of duke health, is committed to advancing health together by delivering tomorrow's health care today, accelerating discovery and its translation, creating education that is transforming, building healthy communities, and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Duke Energy 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

17 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. 17 of the 19 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $1,075,000 · EducationBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau IncSpecial Operations Fund: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $65,000 · HealthHighlands Cashiers Health Fo…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthVISION CASHIERS INC: $292,508 · Human ServicesVISION CASHIERS…HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK F…+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $160,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $12,000 · OtherASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCASHIERS BAPTIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherDUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 · OtherPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $10,000 · OtherThe Village Green of Cashiers Inc: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsFISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY INC: $11,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$1,150,000Health$575,000Human Services$320,008Public Safety & Disaster$160,000Other$72,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Food & Nutrition$11,000

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 budgetBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $1,075,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVISION CASHIERS INC: $292,508 over 4y, 14% of budgetGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $160,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSpecial Operations Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Village Green of Cashiers Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Florence Mauboules Ch…The Community Foundat…Sneed Family Foundati…Sarracenia Foundation…Brighton Foundation T…The Billi Marcus Foun…The Marvin and Helene…The Double Eagle Foun…Tickle Family Foundat…Crj Foundation IncHindman Family Charit…The David J Cooper Fa…
Florence Mauboules Charitable TrustLA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

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    How do I get to Leadership Legacy Life Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Leadership Legacy Life 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 19 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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