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The National Leadership Foundation

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$211k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Itemized grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$191k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$8,620
Largest grant, FY2025
$19,132
Organizations funded a year
10 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$681k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The National Leadership Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$191k14%
FY202421$194k0%
FY202321$198k10%
FY202219$148k11%
FY202119$202k16%
FY202017$150k18%
FY201913$124k23%
FY201810$91k40%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$333kHuman Services$297kEducation$196kFood & Nutrition$169kYouth Development$165kHousing & Shelter$87kPublic Benefit$57kRecreation & Sports$29kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The National Leadership Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGill Children's Services Inc: $130,101 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County: $114,676 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth: $87,339 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Parenting Center: $82,302 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant County: $80,828 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star: $68,039 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHelping Restore Ability: $66,659 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLearning Center of North Texas Inc: $59,516 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Fort Worth Inc: $57,022 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFort Worth Airpower Foundation: $56,767 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetRecovery Resource Council: $55,967 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDont Forget to Feed Me Pet Food Bank Inc: $54,542 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetFort Worth Junior Golf Foundation Inc: $53,120 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetA Wish With Wings Inc: $52,577 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCommunity Healthcare of Texas: $45,149 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County Inc: $44,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Welman Project: $34,847 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTexas Academy 4: $30,779 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSpecial Camps for Special Kids: $29,303 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWings of Hope Equitherapy: $24,150 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHope Center 4 Autism - Fort Worth: $22,453 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKids Who Care Inc: $21,901 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas: $16,384 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSafe City Commission: $12,914 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNeuro Assistance Foundation: $12,512 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRutledge Cancer Foundation: $9,270 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetProjecthandup: $6,460 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Women's Center of Tarrant County Inc: $5,237 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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 of North Texas (TaxTX47.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Morris Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · United Way of Tarrant County · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · America's Charities

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.

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How do I get to The National Leadership Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The National Leadership Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The National Leadership Foundation

How much does The National Leadership Foundation give?
The National Leadership Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $190,999, out of $210,693 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The National Leadership Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Human Services (21%), Education (14%).
Who are The National Leadership Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gill Children's Services Inc ($130k), Meals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County ($115k), Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth ($87k).
Does The National Leadership Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The National Leadership Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax, Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc.
Where is The National Leadership Foundation based?
The National Leadership Foundation is based in TX.

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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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