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The Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc

Build public will for federal policies that promote and protect civil and human rights, and empower and mobilize advocates around the country to push for progressive change in the united states.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Philanthropy$4.1MCivil Rights$1.7MHealth$1.5MCommunity Improvement$969kHuman Services$465kEducation$320kCrime & Legal$300kInternational$250kSocial Science$250kOther$3.1M
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $846k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS$250,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS FBO EMPOWERING PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITIES$150,000
MALIKAH$106,000
COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS$95,000
NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND$85,000
ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION$75,000
BLACK RESEARCHERS COLLECTIVE$75,000
ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE$60,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
SOUTHEAST ASIAN RESOURCE ACTION CENTER$50,000
HISPANIC FEDERATION$50,000
COALITION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER$10,000
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 (FY21–23, $465k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA: $250k → 14%ACCESS NATIONAL NETWORK FOR ARAB AMERICAN COMMUNITIES: $200k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES: $15k → 21%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

IL
MI
NY
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
NM
SC
DC
GA
TX

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 15 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 10 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

15
23

Total granted

$5.9M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+25%

Still filing today

93%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther

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

  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $470k · revenue +13%
  • NE
    NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $460k · revenue +19%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    2× · 2022–2024 · $350k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • AA
    ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +25% · 45% of their budget
  • WI
    WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +7%
  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2023 · $325k

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.

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Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
2
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
3
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

The asian american legal defense and education fund (aaldef), founded in 1974, is a national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of asian americans through litigation, advocacy, education, and organizing.

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4
American Legislative Exchange Council

The american legislative exchange council (alec) is a forum for stakeholders to exchange ideas and develop potential solutions. alec's mission is to advance and promote the jeffersonian principles of limited government, free markets and…

Public Benefit
5
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.

Philanthropy
6
First Amendment Coalition

The first amendment coalition protects and promotes a free press, freedom of expression and the people's right to know. continued on schedule o.

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7
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
8
Association of Legal Administrators

Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.

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9
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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10
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
11
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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12
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is The Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Faith-Based Social ServicesPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%23%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr15%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%37%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr15%10%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,958

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 43 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
24/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $4,111,192 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation In…THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $1,635,000 · OtherTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL…NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND — $460,000 · OtherNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUNDREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $325,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — $200,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $300,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILD…SOUTHEAST ASIA RESOURCE ACTION CENTER SEARAC — $250,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST ASIA RESOURCE ACTION CEN…MARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY INC — $250,000 · OtherMARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY…+7 more — $214,500 · Other+7 moreASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $470,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICAN…ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $400,000 · Civil RightsARAB AMERICAN …MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $300,000 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXIC…COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS — $270,000 · Civil RightsCOALITION ON H…MALIKAH INC FKA INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM WOMENS INITIATIVE FOR SELF EMPOWERMENT — $106,000 · Civil RightsMALIKAH INC FK…CAROLINA FOR ALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $36,000 · Civil RightsWHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC — $400,000 · HealthWHITMAN-WALK…ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION — $325,000 · HealthALTAMED HEAL…FREDERICK COUNTY HEALTHCARE COALITION INC — $250,000 · HealthFREDERICK CO…ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES — $250,000 · HealthASIAN HEALTH…California Pan-Ethnic Health Network — $250,000 · HealthCalifornia P…COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $350,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $300,000 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLINK — $174,000 · Community ImprovementBlack Researchers Collective — $75,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $70,000 · Community ImprovementThe Children's Agenda Inc — $250,000 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $215,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HEALTH INNOVATION — $250,000 · EducationGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $50,000 · Education+2 more — $20,000 · Education
Philanthropy$4,111,192Other$3,934,500Civil Rights$1,652,000Health$1,475,000Community Improvement$969,000Human Services$465,000Education$320,000

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 budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $4,111,192 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $1,635,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $470,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND — $460,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetWHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC — $400,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION — $325,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $300,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $300,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS — $270,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetThe Children's Agenda Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH INNOVATION — $250,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIA RESOURCE ACTION CENTER SEARAC — $250,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetFREDERICK COUNTY HEALTHCARE COALITION INC — $250,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetMARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY INC — $250,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetASIAN HEALTH SERVICES — $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health Network — $250,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $215,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPOLICYLINK — $174,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMALIKAH INC FKA INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM WOMENS INITIATIVE FOR SELF EMPOWERMENT — $106,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetBlack Researchers Collective — $75,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCAROLINA FOR ALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetDEEP CENTER INCORPORATED — $65,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGALEO LATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOP FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCivic Engagement Beyond Voting — $22,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & SOCIAL JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCivic Nation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO VOICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

New Venture FundTides FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Wellspring Philanthro…All Voting Is LocalProteus Fund IncAnnie E Casey Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…WK Kellogg FoundationThe Ford FoundationTelescope Fund
New Venture FundDC26.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · All Voting Is Local · Proteus Fund Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Telescope Fund

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 Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

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