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Leatherby 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.

$85k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
46%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$535k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Leatherby Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureReligionHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$85k43%
FY202413$40k46%
FY20238$56k88%
FY20229$11k44%
FY20217$15k43%
FY20208$21k75%
FY201711$31kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$90kEducation$56kReligion$29kFood & Nutrition$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kInternational$14kHealth$11kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Leatherby Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pacific Symphony$80,00020%
Chapman University$20,00010%
Multiplication Network Ministries$12,00030%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$11,00020%
Orange County Rescue Mission Inc$10,00030%
Wells of Life Inc$10,00010%
Backhausdance$10,00012%
Brackens Kitchen Inc$10,00020%
Hoag Hospital Foundation$8,00020%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc$5,00010%
Africa Renewal Ministries Inc$4,00040%
Trinity United Presbyterian Church$4,0002n/a
The Giving Tree Oc Inc$2,00011%
University of California Irvine Foundation$1,50010%
First Love Ministries USA$1,00010%
Mae House$1,0001n/a
Casa de Amma$1,00010%
Sacramento Life Center Inc$50010%
Homeword$50010%
Newport Beach Junior Lifeguard Foundation$50010%
Voice of the Martyrs Inc$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leatherby Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPacific Symphony: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChapman University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMultiplication Network Ministries: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWells of Life Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBackhausdance: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBrackens Kitchen Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHoag Hospital Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAfrica Renewal Ministries Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Giving Tree Oc Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of California Irvine Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Love Ministries USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCasa de Amma: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSacramento Life Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeword: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewport Beach Junior Lifeguard Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Leatherby Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Leatherby Family Foundation

How much does Leatherby Family Foundation give?
Leatherby Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $85,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Leatherby Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Education (13%), Religion (7%).
Who are Leatherby Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pacific Symphony ($80k), Chapman University ($20k), Multiplication Network Ministries ($12k).
Does Leatherby Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leatherby Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Leatherby Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Leatherby Family Foundation based?
Leatherby Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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