· Private foundation
The Leighton-Oare Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $326k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $410k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VENUES PARKS & ARTS FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $100,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY-NILES | $80,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $75,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS VA | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CAMP EBERHART ALUMNI ASSCOCIATION INC | $40,000 |
| SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL CLUB | $33,500 |
| ACADEMY AT THE LAKES | $26,000 |
| VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES INC | $20,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (UNC) | $20,000 |
| UNITED STATES HUNTER JUMPER ASSOCIATION | $11,725 |
| MICHIGAN GATEWAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
84 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VPVENUES PARKS & ARTS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +77%
- WCWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +95%
- VHVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $134k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF MICHIANAone grant, 2022 · $100k
- SBSOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -15%
- CECAMP EBERHART ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $46k · revenue +126% · 68% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is J Red Peach Foundation. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
71 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. 71 of the 127 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds VENUES PARKS & ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY AT THE LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES HUNTER JUMPER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN GATEWAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Norton Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP EBERHART ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds J RED PEACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds The People's Music School ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Washington International Horse Show ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Wise Foundation · Dun Foundation · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · American Electric Power Foundation · The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation Inc · The Charles Cohn Foundation Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Everwise 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 Leighton-Oare Foundation 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.
- Child Advocacy Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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