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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of NICHOLAS LEEP & HILDA LEEP FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $600k
- $250k+3 grants · $960k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLIANA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $320,000 |
| HIGHLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $320,000 |
| ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $320,000 |
| TRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| ROSELAND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $200,000 |
| CHICAGO WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| WORLD RENEW | $16,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| LIFELINE YOUTH MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| LOVE INC | $10,000 |
| HEARTS IN MOTION | $10,000 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $10,000 |
| DONKA INC | $10,000 |
| EVERY CHILD MINISTRIES | $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 (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
- TATHE ASSOCIATION OF ILLIANA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +77%
- AFASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION8× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +151%
- ECELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES4× · 2021–2024 · $333k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Education - private christian school grades k-12
The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.
To provide christian education to students in grades pre-k to 12.
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
The function of associates in christian counseling is to provide psychological counseling and education services to individuals, couples, and families. services provided are for a wide range of psychological problems including, but not…
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
Valley christian school pursues educational excellence through christ centered programs to produce servant leaders.
Culpeper christian school exists to please the lord jesus christ and to train students by working with the home to build academic excellence on the word of god. the school served approximately 150 students from k-3 preschool through 8th…
Education of students from preschool to 12th grade
To provide formal instruction via regular faculty, curriculum, enrolled body of students and a place where educational activities are regularly conducted.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elim Christian Services and the most unlike its peers is Sylvia's Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 THE ASSOCIATION OF ILLIANA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY CHILD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds World Renew ↗
- Who funds DONKA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HEARTS IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Academy co Richard Van der Molen ↗
- Who funds NEW LEAF RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SYLVIA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds KINDRED LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PINE REST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEEN MOTHER CHOICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds LIFEPLAN ↗
- Who funds HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS UNLIMITED 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: 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
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 Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep 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.
- Homeplate Youth Services — 17% of income from government
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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