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The National Leadership Foundation

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$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Health$333kHuman Services$297kEducation$196kFood & Nutrition$169kYouth Development$165kHousing & Shelter$87kPublic Benefit$57kRecreation & Sports$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $190,999, the rows itemized in this filing. The $210,693 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,694 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $97k
$8,620
Median grant
1
States reached
$681k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GILL CHILDREN'S$19,132
Neuro Assistance Foundation$12,512
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$12,245
LINKED$11,245
MEALS ON WHEELS$11,038
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY$10,501
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$10,352
COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS$10,162
Texas Academy 4$9,570
Rutledge Cancer Foundation$9,270
THE PARENTING CENTER$8,620
THE WELMAN PROJECT$7,895
CAMP JOHN MARC$7,862
WINGS OF HOPE EQUITHERAPY$7,607
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$7,494
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 (FY17–25, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WINGS OF HOPE EQUITHERAPY: $8k → 10%WINGS OF HOPE EQUITHERAPY: $8k → 10%WINGS OF HOPE EQUITHERAPY: $8k → 10%LINKED: $11k → 11%LINKED: $10k → 11%LINKED: $9k → 11%LINKED: $7k → 11%LINKED: $6k → 11%LINKED: $5k → 11%LINKED: $5k → 11%LINKED: $5k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $12k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $11k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $9k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $7k → 11%Northside Inter-Community Agency: $5k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $15k → 11%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS: $11k → 11%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS: $10k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $9k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $8k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $7k → 11%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS: $7k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $7k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $7k → 11%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS: $6k → 11%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 24 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
3

Total granted

$1.3M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+8%

Still filing today

96%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • GC
    GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +103%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +120%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +762%

Funded once

  • SC
    Safe City Commission
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +8%
  • P
    PROJECTHANDUP
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +2%
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +34%
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
The Arc of North Texas

To support and empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to improve their quality of life.

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2
Texans Care for Children Inc

Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…

Crime & Legal
3
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
4
Connectability

ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.

Human Services
5
Family Compass

To build healthy families and a strong north texas community by preventing child abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
6
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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7
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
8
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
9
Family and Child Guidance Center

Our mission is to provide quality mental health services to children and adults in low income families who are impacted by severe and persistent mental illness, emotional disturbances, child abuse and neglect, high-risk behaviors and…

Health
10
Tip of Texas Family Outreach Inc

To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

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11
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
12
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recovery Resource Council; the most unlike its peers is The Welman Project. 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

29 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. 29 of the 30 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County: $80,828 · OtherUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant CountyHelping Restore Ability: $66,659 · OtherHelping Restore AbilityRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC: $57,022 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INCRecovery Resource Council: $55,967 · OtherRecovery Resource CouncilA WISH WITH WINGS INC: $52,577 · OtherA WISH WITH WINGS INCALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS: $44,325 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXASKIDS WHO CARE INC: $21,901 · OtherFort Worth Airpower Foundation: $56,767 · OtherFort Worth Airpower FoundationHOPE CENTER 4 AUTISM - FORT WORTH: $22,453 · OtherTHE WELMAN PROJECT: $34,847 · OtherTHE WELMAN PROJECTTEXAS ACADEMY 4: $30,779 · OtherTEXAS ACADEMY 4+5 more: $46,393 · Other+5 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $87,339 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCE…THE PARENTING CENTER: $82,302 · Human ServicesTHE PARENTING CENTERLEARNING CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $59,516 · Human ServicesLEARNING CENTER OF NORTH…Community Healthcare of Texas: $45,149 · Human ServicesCommunity Healthcare of …Wings of Hope Equitherapy: $24,150 · Human ServicesWings of Hope Equitherap…+1 more: $5,097 · Human ServicesGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $130,101 · EducationGILL CHILD…MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY: $114,676 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $68,039 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTH…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $44,050 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $53,120 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL CAMPS FOR SPECIAL KIDS: $29,303 · Recreation & SportsDONT FORGET TO FEED ME PET FOOD BANK INC: $54,542 · AnimalsHumane Society of North Texas: $16,384 · Animals
Other$570,518Human Services$303,553Education$130,101Food & Nutrition$114,676Youth Development$112,089Recreation & Sports$82,423Animals$70,926

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 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
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 …Thomas M Helen McKee …Communities Foundatio…Amon G Carter Foundat…Sid W Richardson Foun…Bnsf Railway Foundati…The Morris FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…Amon G Carter-Star Te…United Way of Tarrant…Textron Charitable Tr…America's Charities
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The National Leadership Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The National Leadership Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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