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J Leon Lockard

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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$52kHuman Services$42kFood & Nutrition$31kHousing & Shelter$30kArts & Culture$20kHealth$20kCrime & Legal$18kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$628k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA$10,000
PROJECT REFIT$10,000
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA$5,138
CORKRAN SCHOOL INC$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $7k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $5k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $3k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $3k → 7%CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $8k → 22%Esperanza Immigration Legal Services: $8k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMENS NETWORK: $5k → 22%Garces Family Foundation: $5k → 22%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.
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
Family Promise of Philadelphia

To end family homelessness through direct aid, direct services, and advocacy.

Human Services
2
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
3
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Education
4
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
5
Project Home

The mission of the project home community is to empower adults, children, and families to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty, to alleviate the underlying causes of poverty, and to enable all of us to attain our fullest potential…

Human Services
6
The Philadelphia Prevention Partnership

The Philadelphia Prevention Partnership is a coalition of community partnerships sharing the common goal of preventing substance abuse Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in the long term throughout the City.

Health
7
Build Philly Now

Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.

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8
Together for West Philadelphia

Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.

Unclassified
9
Pennsylvania Community Real Estate Corp

None

Housing & Shelter
10
Educating Communities for Parenting Inc

Using the parent-child model ecp increases the potential for developing life-long positive relationship.

Human Services
11
Homeless Advocacy Project

To provide free civil legal services and advocacy to reduce the frequency and duration of homelessness in philadelphia.

Crime & Legal
12
Greater Philadelphia Health Action Inc

To provide quality comprehensive primary medical, dental, behavioral health and child care services using a fiscally responsible approach to meet the needs of a diverse population regardless of ability to pay

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Children's Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Gentle Gratitude. 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

38 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. 38 of the 42 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $17,500 · OtherLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCYORK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $11,835 · OtherYORK COUNTY FOOD BANKPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $9,950 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRAST JAMES SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherST JAMES SCHOOLHOPECAM INC: $7,500 · OtherHOPECAM INCASSOC FOR ADULTS WITH DEV DISABILITIES: $5,802 · OtherYOUNG AUDIENCES OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $5,138 · OtherREESE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 · OtherCONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY CITY ARTS LEAGUE INC: $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 · OtherPREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC: $5,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $5,500 · OtherANTI-VIOLENCE PARTNERSHIP OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 · OtherProject Refit: $10,000 · OtherProject RefitGREENER PARTNERS: $10,000 · OtherGREENER PARTNERSHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $5,301 · Other+3 more: $7,182 · Other+3 moreCASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $7,500 · Human ServicesCASA OF PHILADEL…Esperanza Immigration Legal Services: $7,500 · Human ServicesEsperanza Immigr…FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $7,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE M…JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $6,513 · Human ServicesJEWISH RELIEF AG…GARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesGARCES FAMILY FO…CONNECTEDLY: $5,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTEDLYONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesONE HOUSE AT A T…BUILDING 21: $10,000 · EducationBUILDING 21BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5,820 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH OF…Corkran School Inc: $5,000 · EducationCorkran School …HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $5,000 · EducationHOPE PARTNERSHI…Hunting Park Christian Academy: $4,987 · EducationHunting Park Ch…MIGHTY WRITERS: $4,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERSBoricuactivated: $4,000 · EducationBoricuactivatedPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPETER'S PLACE: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentStarfinder Foundation: $10,062 · PhilanthropyGENTLE GRATITUDE: $9,500 · PhilanthropyHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC: $15,000 · ReligionSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$133,208Human Services$41,513Education$38,807Youth Development$20,000Philanthropy$19,562Religion$15,000Community Improvement$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetYORK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $11,835 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStarfinder Foundation: $10,062 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBUILDING 21: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREENER PARTNERS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $9,950 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGENTLE GRATITUDE: $9,500 over 1y, 54% of budgetHOPECAM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEsperanza Immigration Legal Services: $7,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $6,513 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5,820 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $5,301 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCorkran School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPETER'S PLACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetANTI-VIOLENCE PARTNERSHIP OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTEDLY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY CITY ARTS LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHunting Park Christian Academy: $4,987 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoricuactivated: $4,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CLINIC FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC: $3,182 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP DREAMCATCHER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Patricia Kind Fam…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The William Penn Foun…The Gordon Charter Fo…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Connelly FoundationClaneil Foundation IncClarence a Rowell #2Wsfs Cares FoundationUnited Way of Greater…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA44.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The William Penn Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Clarence a Rowell #2 · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization J Leon Lockard funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Leon Lockard. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Project Refit: 13% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report 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 42 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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