· Private foundation
Least of These Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $17,085 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,085 |
| Lifetown | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,750 |
| Tunnel to Towers | $6,000 |
| Gigi's Shelter for Dogs | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Semper Fi Fund | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| St Jude's Children Hospital | $3,000 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $3,000 |
| West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Disabled American Veterans | $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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2017–2022 · $252k · revenue +134%
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $109k · revenue +56%
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- NCNy County School Districtone grant, 2020 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Non-profit research institute to advance a systems (or holistic and cross-disciplinary) approach to science; personalized medicine; global health & environmental sustainability; science education; & the pioneering & invention of biological…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 33 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS ↗
- Who funds I KNOW I CAN ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Least of These Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Least of These Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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