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Falling Leaves Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Falling Leaves Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Falling Leaves Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION | $3,955,590 |
| OLIN T BINKLEY MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| COMMITTEE OF 100 | $3,500 |
| SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,991 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION | $800 |
| OLIVE CREST ABUSED CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $500 |
| NATIONAL CENTRALIZED REPOSITORY FOR ALZHEIMER'S | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +61%
- HHHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $32k · revenue +237%
- SCSegerstrom Center for the Arts5× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- IWImperial War Museumone grant, 2018 · $314k
- TITHE IMC OF SACRED HEART CANOSSIAN COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $6k
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIOone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +20%
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE OF 100 INC ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds DARROW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ABUSED CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds THE HUTCHINS CONSORT ↗
- Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Falling Leaves Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Falling Leaves Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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