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The Leppien Foundation at a glance

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The Leppien Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
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, FY2017 to 2024.

International$6.4MReligion$6.3MEducation$400kHuman Services$275kHousing & Shelter$25k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $744k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$60,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$187k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northern Christian Radio$250,000
3xM$200,000
Keys for Kids Ministries$184,000
Global Compassion$100,000
Central MI YFC$60,000
Need Him Global$50,000
Anderson University$50,000
Samaritan's Purse$50,000
Youth Haven Ranches$50,000
Insight For Living$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEED HIM GLOAL: $50k → 5%GOOD NEWS MEDIA: $100k → 7%3xM: $200k → 10%Central MI YFC: $80k → 12%YOUTH HAVEN RANCHES: $50k → 13%EAGLE VILLAGE: $125k → 16%Samaritan's Purse: $50k → 21%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $2.0M → 9%GLOBAL COMPASSION: $120k → 9%Anderson University: $50k → 15%INSIGHT FOR LIVING: $75k → 5%3XM: $200k → 10%CENTRAL MI YFC: $60k → 12%YOUTH HAVEN RANCHES: $50k → 13%EAGLE VILLAGE: $75k → 16%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50k → 21%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $2.0M → 9%GLOBAL COMPASSION: $100k → 9%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%3xM: $200k → 10%Central MI YFC: $60k → 12%YOUTH HAVEN RANCHES: $50k → 13%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50k → 21%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $2.0M → 9%GLOBAL COMPASSION: $100k → 9%Anderson University: $50k → 15%3XM: $200k → 10%CENTRAL MI YFC: $50k → 12%YOUTH HAVEN RANCHES: $50k → 13%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50k → 21%GLOBAL COMPASSION: $100k → 9%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%3XM: $100k → 10%CENTRAL MI YFC: $50k → 12%YOUTH HAVEN RANCHES: $50k → 13%Samaritan's Purse: $50k → 21%GLOBAL COMPASSION: $100k → 9%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%3XM: $100k → 10%CENTRAL MI YFC: $50k → 12%YOUTH HAVEN RANCHES: $50k → 13%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50k → 21%Global Compassion: $100k → 9%3XM: $100k → 10%GLOBAL COMPASSION: $100k → 9%3XM: $100k → 10%GLOBAL COMPASSION: $100k → 9%Global Compassion: $100k → 9%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 16 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

$14M
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+32%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalEducationHuman 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

  • Compassion International Incorporated
    4× · 2017–2023 · $6.0M · revenue +16%
  • KF
    Keys for Kids Ministries Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +94%
  • IL
    INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +311%

Funded once

  • GN
    GOOD NEWS MEDIA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • CC
    CRISIS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +32%
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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Ave Maria Communications

Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.

Religion
3
Christian Radio International Inc

Provide inspirational programming in various languages domestically and abroad via satellite, cable, internet, radio local am, fm and television mediums.

Religion
4
Family Life Broadcasting System

Religious radio broadcasting

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5
Nrb Network Inc

NRB Network was founded with a vision of impacting the culture through Christian television. NRBTV equips you to live differently with programming that inspires deep thinking and provides the practical tools you need to put your faith into…

Human Services
6
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
7
Good News Publishers

Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian publishing ministry of Good News Publishers that exists to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and other means, in order, by God's grace: to bring people to Christ as their Lord and…

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8
Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc

1) To proclaim the good news of the Gospel throughout the earth. 2) To teach and nurture His followers. 3) To equip and encourage believers to live out their faith. 4) To defend religious liberty by helping believers understand America's…

Religion
9
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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10
247 Media Ministries

The mission of worship 24/7 is to ignite a passion for god through worship that results in a life of generosity, discipleship, evangelism, generosity and service.

Religion
11
Associated Christian Broadcasters

Christian Radio Station

Arts & Culture
12
Haven Ministries

The Organization provides Christian religious radio programming and Christian inspirational literature, music and publications. The radio program broadcasts daily on stations across the USA, Canada, and around the world.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Christian Radio; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

11 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. 11 of the 21 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Compassion International Incorporated: $6,010,000 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated3XM: $1,250,000 · Other3XMGLOBAL COMPASSION: $920,000 · OtherGLOBAL COMPASSIONIndividual grant recipient: $585,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTHERN CHRISTIAN RADIO: $500,000 · OtherNORTHERN CHRISTIAN RADIOCentral MI YFC: $500,000 · OtherCentral MI YFCYOUTH HAVEN RANCHES: $450,000 · OtherYOUTH HAVEN RANCHESEagle Village Inc: $275,000 · OtherEagle Village Inc+6 more: $352,000 · Other+6 moreKeys for Kids Ministries Inc: $1,397,400 · ReligionKeys for Kids Ministries…INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA: $700,000 · ReligionINTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIASAMARITAN'S PURSE: $450,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSENEED HIM NATIONAL MEDIA OUTREACH INC: $300,000 · ReligionNEED HIM NATIONAL MEDIA …INSIGHT FOR LIVING: $250,000 · ReligionINSIGHT FOR LIVINGANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC: $450,000 · EducationCRISIS CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human Services
International$6,010,000Other$4,832,500Religion$3,097,400Education$450,000Human Services$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $6,010,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKeys for Kids Ministries Inc: $1,397,400 over 9y, 21% of budgetINTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA: $700,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetNORTHERN CHRISTIAN RADIO: $500,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $450,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC: $450,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNEED HIM NATIONAL MEDIA OUTREACH INC: $300,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetEagle Village Inc: $275,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetINSIGHT FOR LIVING: $250,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD NEWS MEDIA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCRISIS CENTER INC: $25,000 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.

  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Keys for Kids Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN CHRISTIAN RADIO ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEED HIM NATIONAL MEDIA OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
  • Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEWS MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA12.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Leppien Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leppien Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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