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The Eason and Ellen Leake Charitable 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.

$289k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$221k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$368kEmployment$214kEducation$144kArts & Culture$43kReligion$12kHousing & Shelter$3kHuman Services$1kAnimals$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $221k
$7,800
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JDRFBREAKTHROUGH T1D$220,500
NATIONAL ALOPECIA AREATA FDN$25,000
MILLSAPS COLLEGE$15,000
ST JOHN'S COLLEGE$10,000
ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$7,800
MS MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
2ND CHANCE MS$2,500
ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF MS FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CIVICA FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%CIVICA FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
CA
UT
MD
NC
DC
LA
MS

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$502k · 11 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$502k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

64%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthEmploymentArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MDRC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $206k · revenue +36%
  • NA
    National Alopecia Areata Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +67%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MS ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • TC
    TOUGALOO COLLEGE STEVE EDDS FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MS MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Mississippi College

Mississippi college is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university of liberal arts and sciences and professional studies dedicated to the pursuit of academic excellence. founded in 1826, mississippi college is the oldest…

Education
4
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
5
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

9
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

12
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rescue Missions Ministries 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JDRFBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $220,500 · OtherJDRFBREAKTHROUGH T1DST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $35,000 · OtherST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF MS ENDOWMENT — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MS ENDOWMENTTOUGALOO COLLEGE STEVE EDDS FUND — $25,000 · OtherTOUGALOO COLLEGE STEVE EDDS FUNDMS MUSEUM OF ART — $20,000 · OtherMS MUSEUM OF ARTIndividual grant recipient — $19,000 · Other+9 more — $27,350 · Other+9 moreMDRC — $206,000 · EmploymentMDRC+1 more — $2,500 · EmploymentCIVICA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Human ServicesCIVICA FOUNDAT…ST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $30,000 · EducationMillsaps College — $27,500 · Education2ND CHANCE MS — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationNational Alopecia Areata Foundation — $45,000 · Health+2 more — $2,000 · HealthWASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART — $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$371,850Employment$208,500Human Services$100,000Education$63,500Health$47,000Arts & Culture$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMDRC — $206,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCIVICA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Alopecia Areata Foundation — $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMillsaps College — $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget2ND CHANCE MS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Selby and Richard McRae FoundationMS13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation 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 The Eason and Ellen Leake Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • St John's College2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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