· Private foundation
Leaw Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k51 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VCCA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA PUBLIC MEDIA PBS | $10,000 |
| WILDLIFE CENTER OF VA | $4,000 |
| MISSOULA ART MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $4,000 |
| JAMES RIVER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $4,000 |
| ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $4,000 |
| LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO | $3,000 |
| READY KIDS | $3,000 |
| KID PAN ALLEY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| FREE UNION COUNTRY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 14 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- RWROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +148%
TREVOR PROJECT INC8× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +570%- LHLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- UNUNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORK AGENCY FOR PALESTINEone grant, 2023 · $10k
- EFEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORKone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +13%
- WCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN - ATTN ERIN GORE (DONOR SERVICES TEAM)one grant, 2024 · $5k
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 goals of City Wildlife are to rescue sick, orphaned, and injured wild animals and return them to the wild; to promote the enjoyment of and harmonious co-existence with native wildlife; and to protect the District of Columbias wild…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Our mission is to study and restore carnivore populations at risk of extinction and the mountain ecosystems they call home through innovative science, strong partnerships and local community action.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Treatment and rehabilitation of ill or injured wild animals and educational programs for various environmental issues.
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. We publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Preemptive Love Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 99 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 ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds Kid Pan Alley ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SECOND STREET GALLERY INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE SMART MISSOULA INC ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CASA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA AUDUBON ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA RIDING THERAPY ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROXY THEATER ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Caplin Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Dammann Fund Inc · The High Stakes 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 Leaw Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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.