How much did THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATIO grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATIO’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

pmt paymentsspringheritagemandan finalfinal paymentpayments madepaid remaining

2019

pointparticipateartisticpledge paymentgoaltrapafter-school

2020

mental healthworkshopfoot carelaw facultyfaculty recruitmentpmts pledgeafb

2021

needingunable payafbexhibitallowstageonline

2022

plainscapital buildingveteranschild

2023

capital campaign-newplainscampaign-new buildingcapital buildingchildveteransequipment

2024

additioncapital campaign-newcampuschildmilitarysystemcare

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $103k
$10k–50k39 grants · $674k
$50k–250k13 grants · $875k
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$31M

Total assets

Largest grants

SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST$300,000
DAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$125,000
BENEFIT FUND OF MCKENZIE HEALTH$120,000
DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH$100,000
ANNE CARLSEN CENTER$60,000
HOPE MANOR FOUNDATION$60,000
GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK$60,000
ND ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE$50,000
UNIVERITY OF MARY$50,000
GAIA HOME$50,000
THEODORE ROOSEVELT MEDORA FDN$50,000
WESTERN ND HONOR FLIGHT$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN$50,000
MINISTRY ON THE MARGINS$50,000
BISMARCK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$40,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $634k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10M · 107 repeat orgs$644k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

107 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107

Total granted

$10M

$467k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+24%

Still filing today

42%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF MARY
8× · 2017–2024 · $673k · revenue +17%
BC
BISMARCK CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2023 · $500k · revenue +183%
GT
GATEWAY TO SCIENCE CENTER INC
5× · 2017–2021 · $420k · revenue +184%

Funded once

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STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ND FDN
one grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue -35%
CS
CHI ST ALEXIUS HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $75k
BC
BISMARCK-MANDAN CHAMBER FDN-BELLE M
one grant, 2019 · $40k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

North Dakota Natural Resources

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Ne South Dakota Community

The organization was formed to reduce poverty, revitalize low-income communities, and empower low-income individuals and families to become self sufficient.

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North Dakota Association for the

Assisting people with physical and mental disabilities in the state of north dakota

Human Services

Cass County North Dakota Historical

To collect, display, and interpret artifacts relevant to the history and cultural heritage of Cass County and the Red River Valley.

Arts & Culture

Dakota Medical Foundation

We lead initiatives to create a region of the healthiest people, build the fundraising success of charities, and invest in new ideas that create widespread health improvement.

Health

University of South Dakota Foundation

Provide private resources to benefit the university of south dakota.

Education

South Dakota Military Heritage Alliance

The purpose of this corporation is to provide support services, encouragement, camaraderie, entertainment and esprit de corps for military veterans, active duty servicemembers, actively-serving Reserve Component (i.e. Reserve and National…

Public Benefit

Children's Museum of South Dakota

Philanthropy

North Iowa Cultural Center & Museum

Provide cultural, educational, and entertainment opportunities.

Arts & Culture

North Dakota Masonic Foundation

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Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.

Health

Central Minnesota Arts Board

Fund local arts programs

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anne Carlsen Center and the most unlike its peers is Sleepy Hollow Theatre & Arts Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/68

the rest of the field

140/2,149

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.

05the grantee network

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/63

Grantees still filing

49/63

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,951,300Education$1,377,500Health$973,500Arts & Culture$886,700Human Services$819,000Food & Nutrition$415,000Philanthropy$399,000

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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

North Dakota Community FoundationND72.4× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Dakota Community Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Sanford Group Return · Missouri Slope Areawide United Way · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Paris Family Foundation · Impact Foundation · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation

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 organisation THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATIO 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 474808145 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 53% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Tom and Frances Leach Foundatio through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATIO

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Tom and Frances Leach Foundatio?

More from the funding graph

THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATIO

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Tom and Frances Leach Foundatio?

More from the funding graph