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Charles and Demetra Leonard Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Charles and Demetra Leonard Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$68kReligion$8kHealth$6kCrime & Legal$5kArts & Culture$4kHuman Services$2kRecreation & Sports$2kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
4
States reached
$935k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kemp Klein Law Firm$5,164
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Pontiac High School Athletics Dept$600
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$250
Individual grant recipient$250
Michigan Education Savings Plan$250
Individual grant recipient$250
Individual grant recipient$250
Individual grant recipient$250
Individual grant recipient$250
Individual grant recipient$250
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Lead Foundation: $500 → 5%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
MA
IN
OH
PA
MD
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36k · 34 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
190

Total granted

$36k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+127%

Still filing today

0%
2%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
EducationPhilanthropyHuman 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

  • PU
    PONTIAC UNITED EDUCATION COALITION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2017–2020 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • LC
    LAKE COUNTY MERRY MAKERS
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 253 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kemp Klein Law Firm: $5,164 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · Other+193 more: $89,359 · Other+193 morePONTIAC UNITED EDUCATION COALITION: $5,500 · EducationTOLLING FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATI: $200 · EducationIRWIN AND BETHEA GREEN SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyL E A D FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$103,523Education$5,700Philanthropy$500Human Services$500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPONTIAC UNITED EDUCATION COALITION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPONTIAC REGIONAL CHAMBER: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIRWIN AND BETHEA GREEN SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetL E A D FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTOLLING FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATI: $200 over 1y, 0.6% 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 PONTIAC UNITED EDUCATION COALITION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charles and Demetra Leonard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles and Demetra Leonard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Charles and Demetra Leonard Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Charles and Demetra Leonard 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 253 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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