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Jim and Norma Leslie Family Foundation at a glance

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Jim and Norma Leslie Family 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.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$810kEducation$496kHealth$350kHuman Services$218kFood & Nutrition$187kCommunity Improvement$100kReligion$100kCrime & Legal$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSTELLATION FUND$150,000
CHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$50,000
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 (FY18–21, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $3k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $150k → 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

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
MO
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 14 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
10

Total granted

$2.0M
$303k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+34%

Still filing today

93%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TC
    The Constellation Fund
    5× · 2020–2025 · $650k · revenue +48%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $291k · revenue +87%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    3× · 2020–2022 · $175k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • CT
    CENTRO TYRONE GUZMANgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +34%
  • PR
    PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • TB
    THE BLAKE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +5%
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
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
2
Augustana College

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…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
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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8
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Almost Home. 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

21 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. 21 of the 24 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)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $560,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY (PRISM): $100,000 · OtherPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINIST…+6 more: $49,500 · Other+6 moreThe Constellation Fund: $650,000 · PhilanthropyThe Constellation FundUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $290,741 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA …FRANKLIN SWITZERLAND INC: $100,000 · EducationFRANKLIN SWITZERLAND INCDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $40,000 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECH…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $20,000 · EducationSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $175,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance: $9,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $150,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $10,500 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $30,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$709,500Philanthropy$650,000Education$495,741Food & Nutrition$184,000Human Services$163,000Community Improvement$100,000Crime & Legal$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Constellation Fund: $650,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $290,741 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $150,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRANKLIN SWITZERLAND INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home: $18,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOCALESSENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDream of Wild Health: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Baird Foundation IncThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Jim and Norma Leslie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim and Norma Leslie Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Jim and Norma Leslie Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jim and Norma Leslie Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 24 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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