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Serve to Lead Foundation at a glance

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Serve to Lead Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$10kArts & Culture$9kEnvironment$8kPublic Benefit$4kEducation$2kHuman Services$650Social Science$500Community Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,100
Median grant
2
States reached
$297k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION IN$6,100
KENNETH L MADDY INSTITUTE$250
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 (FY18–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $100 → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $50 → 14%AMERICAN PURPOSE LLC: $500 → 14%AMERICAN PURPOSE LLC: $500 → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $500 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CA
MO
VA
AZ
DC
LA
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 13 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$28k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +266%
  • EL
    Environmental Law Institute
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +43%
  • TR
    Theodore Roosevelt Association
    4× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +358%

Funded once

  • OG
    OLD GLOBE THEATRE
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • AC
    AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAMgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +495%
  • LG
    LIBRARY GUILD OF RANCHO SANTA FEgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue ×11
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
3
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
4
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
7
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
10
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
11
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
12
The National Bureau of Asian Research

Nbr conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, energy, globalization, and health issues affecting u.s. relations with asia. drawing upon an extensive network of the world's leading specialists and leveraging…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Constitution Center; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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

26 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. 26 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $9,700 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND E…FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION: $2,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCA…CalMatters: $500 · Civil RightsTheodore Roosevelt Association: $3,200 · Arts & CultureTheodore Roosevelt Associati…NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $1,800 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTERNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $1,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMO…OLD GLOBE THEATRE: $1,200 · Arts & CultureOLD GLOBE THEATRETHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASS…SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $500 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL…+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureEnvironmental Law Institute: $5,100 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Law I…The Breakthrough Institute: $500 · EnvironmentThe Breakthrough In…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $450 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFEN…+1 more: $100 · EnvironmentLIBRARY GUILD OF RANCHO SANTA FE: $1,000 · OtherLIBRARY GUIL…THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION Rolf Benirschke Legacy F: $500 · OtherTHE SAN DIEG…AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $1,000 · OtherAMAZON CONSE…MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $500 · OtherMANHATTAN IN…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $350 · OtherPLANNED PARE…THE RAOUL WALLENBERG COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES LTD: $200 · Other+3 more: $300 · Other+3 moreAMERICAN PURPOSE LLC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $650 · Human ServicesSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $1,000 · Community ImprovementQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT: $500 · Community ImprovementISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationKENNETH L MADDY INSTITUTE: $250 · Education
Civil Rights$12,200Arts & Culture$8,950Environment$6,150Other$3,850Human Services$1,650Community Improvement$1,500Education$1,250

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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $9,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Law Institute: $5,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Association: $3,200 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PURPOSE LLC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBRARY GUILD OF RANCHO SANTA FE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breakthrough Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalMatters: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNETH L MADDY INSTITUTE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAOUL WALLENBERG COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES LTD: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $100 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.

Rancho Santa Fe Found…The San Diego Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Rancho Santa Fe FoundationCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Serve to Lead Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Serve to Lead Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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