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The Leep Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$265k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$888kYouth Development$869kPhilanthropy$804kHealth$649kFood & Nutrition$543kHousing & Shelter$460kInternational$245kEducation$224kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $212k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $568k
  • $250k+1 grant · $265k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Foundation St Joseph County Inc$265,000
CULTIVATE FOOD RESCUE$125,333
Diocese of Norwich Outreach to Haiti Inc$100,000
Hospice Foundation$100,000
Marian University Ancilla College$75,000
Reins of Life$62,500
Transformation Ministries$55,000
Habitat for Humanity$50,000
LOGAN CENTER$40,000
Family Justice Center of St Joseph Cnty$35,000
Heroes Camp Inc$25,000
YMCA OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$25,000
THE MUSIC VILLAGE$19,000
Kentucky State University$15,913
Ronald McDonald House Charities$15,000
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 (FY17–24, $431k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Women's Care Center Foundation: $75k → 13%The Roadie Clinic Inc: $4k → 15%Family Justice Center of St Joseph Cnty: $35k → 13%THE ROADIE CLINIC: $4k → 15%Family Justice Center of St Joseph County: $25k → 13%THE ROADIE CLINIC INC: $4k → 15%Family Justice Center of St Joseph County: $25k → 13%FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $15k → 13%Family Justice Center of St Joseph Cnty: $15k → 13%FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $11k → 13%FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ST JOSPEH COUNTY INC: $4k → 13%Family Justice Center of St Joseph County Inc: $1k → 13%Martin Luther King Multi-Service Center Indianapolis Inc: $13k → 16%Martin Luther King Multi-Service Center Indianapolis Inc: $13k → 16%Martin Luther King Multi-Service Center Indianapolis Inc: $13k → 16%MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTISERVICE CENTER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $7k → 16%MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTISERVICE CENTER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $4k → 16%Indiana Youth Group: $4k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH GROUP INC: $4k → 16%MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTISERVICE CENTER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $3k → 16%Martin Luther King Multi-Service Center Indianapolis Inc: $3k → 16%Indiana Youth Group: $3k → 16%Hannah's House Inc: $50k → 13%Hannah's House: $50k → 13%Hannah's House: $36k → 13%Hannah's House: $10k → 13%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
IA
IN
CT
KY
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 38 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
31

Total granted

$3.7M
$610k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+17%

Still filing today

74%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $512k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CC
    CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $472k · revenue ×13
  • LC
    Logan Community Resources Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $256k · revenue +69%
  • HH
    HANNAH'S HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $243k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Foundation of St Joe Co
    one grant, 2021 · $155k
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTER FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +95%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH THE PROTECTOR FDN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -38%
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
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Indiana United Methodist Children's Home Inc

To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…

Human Services
3
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
4
St Joseph Missions Inc

To provide emergency shelter and resources for single homeless women, regardless of their faith, in an environment that respects their dignity as human persons, affords them the opportunity to live indivdiually and collectively with others…

Philanthropy
5
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
6
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
7
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Central Indiana Inc

To provide a supportive home-away-from-home for families of children receiving medical care at riley children's health and other area hospitals.

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8
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Inc

We, saint joseph regional medical center (sjrmc) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc is a member of trinity health.

Health
9
Bowen Health Inc

To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.

Health
10
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…

Health
11
Cathedral Center Inc

Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…

Religion
12
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Indiana Corridor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Figge Art Museum. 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

53 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. 53 of the 81 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
38/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Foundation St Joseph County Inc: $265,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation St Joseph County IncCAMPAGNA ACADEMY INC: $260,000 · OtherCAMPAGNA ACADEMY INCLogan Community Resources Inc: $256,000 · OtherLogan Community Resources IncDIOCESE OF NORWICH OUTREACH TO HAITI INC: $242,750 · OtherDIOCESE OF NORWICH OUTREACH TO HAITI INCHospice Foundation: $200,000 · OtherHospice FoundationCommunity Foundation of St Joe Co: $155,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of St Joe CoBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $136,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $105,000 · OtherTRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES INC: $145,000 · Other+52 more: $1,115,702 · Other+52 moreHANNAH'S HOUSE INC: $243,200 · Human ServicesHANNAH'S HO…FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $130,888 · Human ServicesFAMILY JUST…ST JOSEPH THE PROTECTOR FDN INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH T…MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $56,999 · Human ServicesMARTIN LUTH…+2 more: $22,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $315,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTER FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FOUNDA…REINS OF LIFE INC: $62,500 · PhilanthropyREINS OF L…CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $471,775 · EmploymentCULTIVATE …HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $300,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHEROES CAMP INC: $142,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC: $109,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $150,000 · HealthBUSES BY THE BEACH INC: $23,000 · HealthCROSSROADS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Health
Other$2,880,452Human Services$528,087Philanthropy$477,500Employment$471,775Housing & Shelter$310,000Youth Development$276,000Health$190,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $471,775 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $315,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCAMPAGNA ACADEMY INC: $260,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLogan Community Resources Inc: $256,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHANNAH'S HOUSE INC: $243,200 over 8y, 11% of budgetDIOCESE OF NORWICH OUTREACH TO HAITI INC: $242,750 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES INC: $145,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHEROES CAMP INC: $142,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $130,888 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC: $109,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $105,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTER FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $95,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MICHIANA INC: $90,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ART ALLIANCE INC: $83,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetST JOSEPH THE PROTECTOR FDN INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREINS OF LIFE INC: $62,500 over 1y, 44% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $56,999 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMarian University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF INDIANA-MICHIANA INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBUSES BY THE BEACH INC: $23,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetSt Joseph County Parks Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $16,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER COUNSEL- ING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $15,040 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROADIE CLINIC INC: $12,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetGIRLS ROCK INDIANAPOLIS INC: $10,125 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetIYG INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSt Margarets House: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROADS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSt Jude House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDAVENPORT SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES: $4,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE KING'S HARVEST INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Community Foundation …University of Notre D…Lilly Endowment IncAsante Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …United Way of St Jose…The Specialized Staff…Carroll F V Char Tr-M…Judd Leighton Foundat…Memorial Hospital of …Radiology Inc Foundat…Schwartz Wiekamp Foun…
Community Foundation of St Joseph County IncIN42.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Lilly Endowment Inc · Asante Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · The Specialized Staffing Charitable Foundation Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Memorial Hospital of South Bend Inc · Radiology Inc Foundation · Schwartz Wiekamp Foundation

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 Leep Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leep Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 81 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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