· Private foundation
Linda J Leith Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VETERANS LIFE CENTER | $25,000 |
| WOODSON CENTER | $20,000 |
| WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION INC | $12,000 |
| INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC | $10,000 |
| REACHING U - A FOUNDATION FOR URUGUAY | $10,000 |
| RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $10,000 |
| HOPE REINS | $8,000 |
| INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INC | $8,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOPE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF HOPE | $3,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- WCWOODSON CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue -37%
- AFAMERICAS FUTURE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +205%
- RUREACHING U A FOUNDATION FOR URUGUAY2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -5%
Funded once
- VLVETERANS LIFE CENTERone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- WMWHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $12k
Maine Coast Heritage Trustone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…
First fruit ministries shares the unconditional love of god through outreach and supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness or trafficking in southeastern north carolina.
Provide food at no cost to hungry people in need in avery county, nc and improve their health where possible
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
To build a safe and nurturing facility where families and individuals can maintain their sense of well-being and dignity while rebuilding their lives and ultimately finding and securing permanent housing.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.
Upstate freshwater institute, inc. (ufi) is a not-for-profit research corporation dedicated to the improvement of water quality and the advancement of freshwater research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds REACHING U A FOUNDATION FOR URUGUAY ↗
- Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES 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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Linda J Leith Family 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.