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Henry M & Eleanora Pianka Leonard Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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Henry M & Eleanora Pianka Leonard Charitable Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$303kHealth$5kCommunity Improvement$3k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$626k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$30,000
GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$5,000
PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE$5,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Babson College: $3k → 7%Worcester Polytechnic Institute: $3k → 11%University of Massachusetts: $5k → 12%Western New England College: $3k → 17%Pennsylvania State University: $5k → 16%TUNNELS TO TOWERS: $2k → 11%Union College: $3k → 12%PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $5k → 16%University of Michigan: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $3k → 11%BOLTON HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 11%Eastern Connecticut State Universit: $3k → 12%GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $12k → 7%Xavier University: $3k → 16%Franklin Pierce University: $3k → 9%University of New Hampshire: $5k → 9%University of New England: $3k → 9%University of Maine: $3k → 15%Wellesley College: $3k → 7%Mount Holyoke College: $3k → 12%University of St Joseph: $3k → 11%Bolton High School: $10k → 11%Southern Connecticut State Universi: $3k → 12%University of New Hampshire: $3k → 9%Manchester Community College: $3k → 11%BOLTON HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 11%Southern Connecticut State Universi: $3k → 12%Manchester Community College: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $30k → 11%Tunxis Community College: $3k → 11%University of Connecticut: $15k → 11%ENFIELD HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $13k → 11%ENFIELD HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 11%University of Connecticut: $13k → 11%Enfield High School: $10k → 11%University of Connecticut: $5k → 11%Asnuntuck Community College: $3k → 11%Coventry High School: $10k → 11%Asnuntuck Community College: $3k → 11%COVENTRY HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 11%Wethersfield High School: $10k → 11%WETHERSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 11%WETHERSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 11%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

ME
NH
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$237k · 10 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$237k
$62k

Still filing today

0%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    5× · 2017–2025 · $76k
  • WH
    Wethersfield High School
    3× · 2021–2023 · $30k
  • EH
    ENFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2023 · $30k

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • UO
    University of Michigangraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +202%
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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

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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
6
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
7
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
12
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 31 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $75,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTWethersfield High School: $30,000 · OtherWethersfield High SchoolENFIELD HIGH SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherENFIELD HIGH SCHOOLBOLTON HIGH SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherBOLTON HIGH SCHOOLCENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSIT: $28,842 · OtherCENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITCoventry High School: $20,000 · OtherCoventry High SchoolUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $11,500 · Other+14 more: $57,500 · Other+14 morePENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC: $5,000 · EducationPENSACOLA…BABSON COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationBABSON CO…UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $2,500 · EducationUNIVERSIT…XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationXAVIER UN…Wellesley College: $2,500 · EducationWellesley…UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $2,500 · EducationUNIVERSIT…University of New England: $2,500 · EducationUniversit…Franklin Pierce University: $2,500 · EducationFranklin …THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationTHE TRUST…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationSTEPHEN S…
Other$283,342Education$27,000

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 budgetUniversity of Michigan: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Pierce University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $2,500 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.

  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
  • Who funds University of New England ↗
  • Who funds Franklin Pierce University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Henry M & Eleanora Pianka Leonard Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry M & Eleanora Pianka Leonard Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
  • University of Saint Joseph: 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 0% of income from government
  • Babson College: 0% of income from government
  • Pensacola Christian College Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 31 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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