· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,796 |
| EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY | $10,796 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,796 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 HINCKLEY AREA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dekalb County Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John D & Jane Leifheit Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John D & Jane Leifheit Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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