· Private foundation
The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $665k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $755k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNTRAIL COUNTY MEDICAL CNTR INC | $250,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $250,000 |
| BISMARCK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| CENTRAL DAKOTA HUMANE SOCIETY | $120,000 |
| HOPE MANOR FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT MEDORA FDN | $50,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| STATE HISTORICAL SOC OF ND FDN | $50,000 |
| BISMARCK CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERITY OF MARY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN | $50,000 |
| WESTERN ND HONOR FLIGHT | $50,000 |
| MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY | $40,000 |
| 318 PROJECT | $40,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $695k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% 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 +29% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $482k 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
- UOUniversity of Mary9× · 2017–2025 · $783k · revenue +61%
- BCBISMARCK CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $550k · revenue +1%
- GTGATEWAY TO SCIENCE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $530k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- CSCHI ST ALEXIUS HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $75k
- BCBISMARCK-MANDAN CHAMBER FDN-BELLE Mone grant, 2019 · $40k
- RMRUTH MEIERS HOSPITALITY HOUSE INCone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.
The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.
The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.
It is the mission of the Odd Fellows Home to be a "Place Where Somebody Cares." This has been the motto off Odd Fellows Home since the 1925 dedication. The Odd Fellows Home's mission is to provide a comfortable and pleasant atmosphere as…
Our mission is to connect people to a community of support by offering free resources and services that address immediate and long-term needs. Partner agencies and the Dream Center will work in many different areas including nutrition,…
Committed to improving the wellness of families.
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
Museum/educational center
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Hope Manor Foundation Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 23. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 153 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 University of Mary ↗
- Who funds BISMARCK CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEARTVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bismarck State College Foundation ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ND HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds Mountrail County Medical Center ↗
- Who funds HEAVENS HELPERS ↗
- Who funds ABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL DAKOTA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOPE MANOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Missouri Valley Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINOT ↗
- Who funds The Banquet ↗
- Who funds STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLEEPY HOLLOW THEATRE & ARTS PARK ↗
- Who funds 31-8 PROJECT ↗
- Who funds University of Jamestown ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH ↗
- Who funds Ministry on the Margins ↗
- Who funds Gaia Home ↗
- Who funds BISMARCK-MANDAN ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: North Dakota Community Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Sanford Group Return · Paris Family Foundation · Missouri Slope Areawide United Way · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Impact Foundation · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Alex Stern Family 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 organization The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation 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.
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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