· Private foundation
John D & Jane Leifheit Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY | $10,796 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,796 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,796 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,796 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,796 |
| HINCKLEY BIG-ROCK COMMUNITY HIGH SC | $7,500 |
| HINCKLEY FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HINCKLEY COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION | $5,000 |
| HINCKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,500 |
| DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HINCKLEY AREA FOOD PANTRY | $1,500 |
| HINCKLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| DEKALB COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| SOMONAUK UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +33%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +27%
- DCDEKALB COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC3× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +158%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to foster compassionate human and animal connections; forge safe, healthy, and thriving communities for animals; provide care and transitional sheltering to animals; provide leadership and guidance to the animal sheltering…
The organization provides a safe shelter for animals until they can be adopted into a lifelong home. the organization supports local law enforcement departments in animal abuse and neglect cases, works with animal rescue groups and…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Driven by a vision to end cancer as we know it for everyone, the american cancer society cancer action network, inc. (acs can) advocates for evidence-based public policies to reduce the cancer burden by engaging advocates across the…
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
Provide shelter and adoption services for abandoned and lost animals and to educate the public in the areas of pet care and responsibility
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
Asheville humane society is building a supportive community that posivitely impacts pets and people.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dekalb County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HINCKLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HINCKLEY AREA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dekalb County Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization John D & Jane Leifheit Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.