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Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2024
29
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$320,000
Organizations funded a year
29 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving31$1.8M6%
FY202329$126k0%
FY202230$125k3%
FY202133$130k6%
FY202029$117k0%
FY201931$130k3%
FY201831$127k3%
FY201732$130kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.6MReligion$213kHousing & Shelter$205kInternational$189kHealth$158kYouth Development$107kHuman Services$80kArts & Culture$60kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Association of Illiana Christian High School of Indiana Inc$355,00082%
Association for Christian Instruction$345,00085%
Elim Christian Services$333,00041%
Chicago West Side Christian School Association$249,00089%
Trinity Christian College Association$200,00010%
Every Child Ministries$100,00081%
World Renew$74,00080%
Hearts in Motion$45,00081%
Donka Incorporated$45,00082%
Cornerstone Academy co Richard Van der Molen$37,00082%
New Leaf Resources$36,00081%
Hammond Christian Reformed Church$36,0008n/a
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$35,0006n/a
Grace Christian Educational Association$35,00081%
Salvation Army$27,0008n/a
Sylvia's Place$23,00061%
Kindred Life Ministries Inc$21,00062%
Pine Rest Foundation$18,00080%
Teen Mother Choices International$16,00054%
Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us$15,00010%
Lifeplan$14,00032%
Homeplate Youth Services$14,00081%
Bible League$9,0008n/a
Highland Historical Society Incorporated$4,5008n/a
Exceptional Equestrians Unlimited Inc$4,00042%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($551k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Association of Illiana Christian High School of Indiana Inc: $355,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetAssociation for Christian Instruction: $345,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetElim Christian Services: $333,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetChicago West Side Christian School Association: $249,000 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetTrinity Christian College Association: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEvery Child Ministries: $100,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetWorld Renew: $74,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHearts in Motion: $45,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetDonka Incorporated: $45,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCornerstone Academy co Richard Van der Molen: $37,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetNew Leaf Resources: $36,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetGrace Christian Educational Association: $35,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSylvia's Place: $23,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetKindred Life Ministries Inc: $21,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetPine Rest Foundation: $18,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTeen Mother Choices International: $16,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetOpportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeplan: $14,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHomeplate Youth Services: $14,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetExceptional Equestrians Unlimited Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Barnabas FoundationIL19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barnabas Foundation · Van Dyke Family Charitable Foundation · Cornucopia Family Foundation · The Brandsma Family Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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About Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation

How much does Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation give?
Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $1,757,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), Religion (8%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
Who are Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Association of Illiana Christian High School of Indiana Inc ($355k), Association for Christian Instruction ($345k), Elim Christian Services ($333k).
Does Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barnabas Foundation, Van Dyke Family Charitable Foundation, Cornucopia Family Foundation.
Where is Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation based?
Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation is based in IN.

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 39 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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