· Private foundation
Klein & Mary Lee Leister Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of KLEIN & MARY LEE LEISTER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| CONEXUS | $500 |
| ATLANTIC GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MYRON SMITH VISION CONSERVATION TRUST | $500 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE | $500 |
| OUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $350 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES | $250 |
| THE COSTEN HOUSE MUSEUM | $250 |
| BETHANY CHURCH | $250 |
| SAMARITAN MINISTRIES | $250 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $250 |
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 (FY18–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- SUSALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +99%
- CConexus7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +487%
- SMSamaritan Ministries5× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- PUPECOMETH UNITED METHODIST CAMP AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +81%
- PMPOCOMOKE MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $1k
- CDCFWNC-EMERGENCY & DISASTER RESPONSE FUNDone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
To engage, educate and lead worcester county in creating a hunger free community.
Outer cape health services, inc.'s mission is to provide a full range of healthcare and supportive social services that promote the health and well-being of all who live in or visit the ten outermost towns of cape cod.
Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.
The organization's mission is to feed the hungry and food insufficient by providing a food pantry through a network of faith-based communities, civic organizations, and other stakeholders.
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
The mission of the library is to serve to the community, cultivate knowledge, promote curiosity, and inspire lifelong learning.
To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.
It is the mission of wayne memorial hospital to provide quality healthcare with compassion, advocacy, respect, excellence, and service; to promote wellness in our community; and to be proactive in responding to our community's needs.
Barrier islands free medical clinic is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a comprehensive medical home promoting dignity, wellness, and health for uninsured tri-county adults who qualify financially.
The mission of the united way of chatham county is to address the most critical needs of county residents.
To enhance the quality of life for the residents and visitors of dare county and the surrounding region by promoting wellness and providing the highest quality healthcare services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlantic General Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 43 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 SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Conexus ↗
- Who funds PECOMETH UNITED METHODIST CAMP AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Ministries ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marva Theater Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds BEACH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR A BETTER EASTERN SHORE ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE ↗
- Who funds Southside SPCA ↗
- Who funds Hatteras Island Meals Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WORCESTER COUNTY INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · Townebank Foundation · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Klein & Mary Lee Leister Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.