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Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$270k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,259
Organizations funded a year
11 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$4.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving19$265k26%
FY202318$297k17%
FY202232$283k16%
FY202133$310k24%
FY202027$240k78%
FY201919$249k37%
FY201814$277k57%
FY201711$214kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$492kYouth Development$369kHuman Services$265kReligion$259kHealth$186kArts & Culture$142kEnvironment$70kFood & Nutrition$57kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Brass City Charter School$148,23861%
Children's Community School Inc$133,15472%
Police Activity League of Waterbury$100,00035%
Mattatuck Historical Society$75,00041%
Waterbury Youth Services Inc$54,40051%
The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association$50,00020%
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury$45,74143%
Save Girls on Fyer Inc$45,00019%
Seven Angels Theatre Inc$33,20041%
Pastor & Standing Comm South Congregation Church$21,00015%
Safe Haven of Greater Wtby Inc$20,00011%
Catholic Academy of Waterbury$17,5001n/a
Skidmore College$15,00030%
Shakesperience Productions Inc$15,00032%
Porters House Inc$15,00018%
Stamford Center for the Arts Inc$12,50020%
Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury$5,00030%
Trinity College$5,00010%
Naugatuck Youth Services Inc$4,50011%
For Right Now Corporation Incorporated$4,0003n/a
Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc$3,00010%
United Muslim Mosque Inc$3,0002n/a
Grace Baptist Church$3,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrass City Charter School: $148,238 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetChildren's Community School Inc: $133,154 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetPolice Activity League of Waterbury: $100,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetMattatuck Historical Society: $75,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWaterbury Youth Services Inc: $54,400 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury: $45,741 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetSave Girls on Fyer Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetSeven Angels Theatre Inc: $33,200 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPastor & Standing Comm South Congregation Church: $21,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSafe Haven of Greater Wtby Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSkidmore College: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShakesperience Productions Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPorters House Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetStamford Center for the Arts Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTrinity College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaugatuck Youth Services Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWaterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 19.

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.

The Connecticut Community FoundationCT38.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · The Leever Foundation · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley-Watertown · The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Chase Collegiate School Foundation · Element Solutions Foundation Inc

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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About Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc

How much does Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc give?
Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $270,285 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Youth Development (17%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Brass City Charter School ($148k), Children's Community School Inc ($133k), Police Activity League of Waterbury ($100k).
Does Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Connecticut Community Foundation, Ion Bank Foundation Inc, American Savings Foundation Inc.
Where is Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc based?
Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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