· Private foundation
Leahy 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NSSRA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of your 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.
8 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- THTHE H FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +58%
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Lake County6× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +215%
- GFGATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH3× · 2017–2019 · $18k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- LOLEMONS OF LOVE INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +9%
- LFLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +87%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +70%
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.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
The organization supports development of novel and compassionate therapies and treatment for the poor, the needy, the hopeless and the forgotten stricken with the deadly disease of cancer.
To ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.
The hairy cell leukemia foundation is dedicated to improving outcomes for patients by advancing research into the causes and treatment of hairy cell leukemia, as well as by providing educational resources and comfort to all those affected…
The Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation's mission is to eradicate breast cancer by investing in early career doctors and innovative research. Investments are directed locally within the Chicago area, but drive impact globally.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The foundation supports gateway for cancer research and its efforts to battle cancer by funding phase i and phase ii cancer trials.
To cure leukemia by funding innovative research, and to support patients and families.
The mission of the lexington cancer foundation, inc. organization is to create awareness and raise funds in the fight against cancer. the organization is also dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare for cancer patients.
To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.
Cparf funds us-based research to change what's possible for people with cerebral palsy, implements proven science, and advances innovation to benefit all people with disabilities around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Benny's World. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 THE H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake County ↗
- Who funds NSSRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEMONS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BENNY'S WORLD ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Helix Illinois NFP ↗
- Who funds THE LAMBS FARM 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: AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Leahy Family 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.