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· Public charity

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 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, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.1MCivil Rights$3.7MHealth$2.3MCommunity Improvement$944kPublic Benefit$653kCrime & Legal$365kEducation$310kHuman Services$272kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SOUTHEAST ASIAN RESOURCE ACTION CENTER$50,000
HISPANIC FEDERATION$50,000
COALITION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$50,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

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

+17%
+9%

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
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

  • NE
    NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $460k · revenue +19%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    2× · 2022–2024 · $350k · revenue +78%
  • ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $325k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • WI
    WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +7%
  • AA
    ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +25% · 45% of their budget
  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2023 · $325k
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
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
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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3
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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4
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
5
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
6
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
7
Latino Political Network
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8
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
9
American Business Immigration Coalition

To promote sensible immigration reform that supports the economy of the united states, provides american companies with both the high-skilled and low-skilled talent they need, and allows the integration of immigrants into our economy as…

Public Benefit
10
Equality Alliance of San Diego

Alliance is a community organization working to build a more inclusive democracy so that all people can achieve their full potential in an environment of harmony, safety, equality, and justice. Alliance develops leaders, builds coalitions,…

Civil Rights
11
Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote

It is the mission of APIAVote to encourage and promote civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public processes at the national, state, and local levels. APIAVote also aims to educate and inform Asian…

Civil Rights
12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
23/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…California Pan-Ethnic Health Network: $250,000 · HealthCalifornia P…ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $250,000 · HealthASIAN HEALTH…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 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 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 budgetWHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC: $400,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $325,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $300,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCOALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS: $270,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetFREDERICK COUNTY HEALTHCARE COALITION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIA RESOURCE ACTION CENTER SEARAC: $250,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health Network: $250,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH INNOVATION: $250,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Agenda Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY INC: $250,000 over 2y, 15% 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
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.

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

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 Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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 43 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 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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