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The Eason and Ellen Leake Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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
CA
UT
MD
NC
DC
LA
MS
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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%
+3%

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
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

  • 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
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
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…

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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…

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation; 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 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. 15 of the 27 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,000 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.

Selby and Richard McR…Community Foundation …Greater Washington Co…Shell USA Company Fou…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…
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

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 The Eason and Ellen Leake Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eason and Ellen Leake Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • St John's College: 2% 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, 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 27 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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