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Geo Zoltan Lefton Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$26k
Granted FY2018
20
Grants FY2018
9
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$903k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
bluhm cardiovascular institute$3,500
northwestern memorial foundation$3,500
johns hopkins university$1,500
st jude childrens research$1,500
misericordia heart of mercy$1,500
cultural council of palm beach$1,000
wounded warriors project$1,000
leukemia and lymphoma society$1,000
university of miami foundation$1,000
save the children$1,000
unicorn childrens foundation$1,000
canine companions$1,000
american red cross$1,000
jewish adoption and foster care$1,000
malignant hyperthermia association$1,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%jewish adoption and foster care: $1k → 13%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

IL
NY
CT
CA
MD
TN
GA
TX
FL
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 field

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.

1
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
2
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

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5
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
6
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
7
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
8
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
11
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
12
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Cancer Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

northwestern memorial foundation: $3,500 · Othernorthwestern memorial foundationbluhm cardiovascular institute: $3,500 · Otherbluhm cardiovascular institutemisericordia heart of mercy: $1,500 · Othermisericordia heart of mercyst jude childrens research: $1,500 · Otherst jude childrens researchuniversity of miami foundation: $1,000 · Otheruniversity of miami foundationcrohns and colitis: $1,000 · Othercrohns and colitisamerican red cross: $1,000 · Otheramerican red crossThe Unicorn Childrens Foundation: $1,000 · OtherThe Unicorn Childrens Foundationnational breast cancer society: $1,000 · Othernational breast cancer society+1 more: $500 · OtherMALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $1,000 · HealthMALIGNANT HYPER…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UN…AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $500 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG A…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPAN…Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesJewish Adopti…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRI…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · EducationCultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 · International
Other$15,500Health$3,500Human Services$3,000Education$1,500Arts & Culture$1,000International$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Unicorn Childrens Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Geo Zoltan Lefton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geo Zoltan Lefton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 20 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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