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Leaw Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Leaw Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$153k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$519kAnimals$157kHealth$91kFood & Nutrition$83kYouth Development$64kEnvironment$63kCrime & Legal$42kInternational$34kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k51 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VCCA$15,000
VIRGINIA PUBLIC MEDIA PBS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
JAMES RIVER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$4,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT$4,000
ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY$4,000
WILDLIFE CENTER OF VA$4,000
MISSOULA ART MUSEUM$4,000
LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO$3,000
ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$3,000
CLIMATE SMART MISSOULA$3,000
SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST$3,000
BLUE RIDGE FOOD BANK$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THORN: $3k → 17%THORN: $2k → 14%STEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE: $2k → 8%SIN BARRERASWITHOUT BARRIERS: $2k → 8%READY KIDS: $3k → 8%READY KIDS: $3k → 8%READY KIDS: $3k → 8%READY KIDS: $3k → 8%READY KIDS: $3k → 8%READY KIDS: $3k → 8%READY KIDS: $3k → 8%READY KIDS: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
MI
NY
CT
CA
VA
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 55 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
30

Total granted

$1.1M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+15%

Still filing today

62%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RW
    ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +148%
  • TREVOR PROJECT INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +570%
  • LH
    LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • UN
    UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORK AGENCY FOR PALESTINE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • WC
    WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN - ATTN ERIN GORE (DONOR SERVICES TEAM)
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • EF
    EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +13%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
City Wildlife Inc

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…

Education
2
Rocky Mountain 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…

Environment
3
Wild Virginia Incorporated

Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.

Environment
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
Animal Outlook Inc

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.

Animals
6
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
7
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
8
Cascades Carnivore Project

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.

Science & Tech
9
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
10
The Wildlife Center of Virginia

Treatment and rehabilitation of ill or injured wild animals and educational programs for various environmental issues.

Animals
11
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
12
Civil Eats

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.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 99 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VCCA: $339,791 · OtherVCCAJAMES RIVER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $44,000 · OtherWILDLIFE CENTER OF VA: $35,000 · Other+60 more: $409,750 · Other+60 moreKid Pan Alley: $27,000 · Arts & CultureKid Pan Al…LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureLIGHT HOUS…MISSOULA ART MUSEUM: $24,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOULA A…SECOND STREET GALLERY INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureSECOND STR…+4 more: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $34,000 · AnimalsROCKFISH …WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $25,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE …ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $17,500 · AnimalsANIMAL WE…K9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $9,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR W…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $4,000 · Animals+4 more: $9,000 · Animals+4 moreCLIMATE SMART MISSOULA INC: $22,500 · EnvironmentMONTANA AUDUBON: $17,750 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $5,000 · EnvironmentGREAT BURN STUDY GROUP dba Great Burn Conservation Alliance: $5,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $2,000 · Environment+2 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $20,000 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA RIDING THERAPY: $10,000 · HealthTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $5,000 · HealthBLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC: $4,000 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $4,000 · HealthBirth Sisters of Charlottesville: $3,000 · HealthREADYKIDS INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesTHORN: $5,000 · Human ServicesSIN BARRERAS WITHOUT BARRIERS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE: $2,000 · Human ServicesTREVOR PROJECT INC: $29,000 · Civil Rights
Other$828,541Arts & Culture$109,000Animals$98,500Environment$57,250Health$46,000Human Services$31,000Civil Rights$29,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $34,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $29,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKid Pan Alley: $27,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC: $27,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $24,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMISSOULA ART MUSEUM: $24,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND STREET GALLERY INC: $23,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetCLIMATE SMART MISSOULA INC: $22,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetREADYKIDS INC: $22,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $20,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPIEDMONT CASA INC: $19,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMONTANA AUDUBON: $17,750 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN CITY HARVEST INC: $14,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA RIDING THERAPY: $10,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROXY THEATER: $8,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANOVA STABLES FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT BURN STUDY GROUP dba Great Burn Conservation Alliance: $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHORN: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCultivate Charlottesville: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUR KIDS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREE UNION COUNTRY SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER PINES HORSE SANCTUARY: $2,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIN BARRERAS WITHOUT BARRIERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Neighbors Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOWS PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTELL US SOMETHING: $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLAY STUDIO OF MISSOULA: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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 ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Kid Pan Alley ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗

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.

Charlottesville Area …Manning Family Founda…The J & E Berkley Fou…Caplin FoundationThe Charles Fund IncPerry Foundation IncThe Genan FoundationS&P Global Foundation…The Oak Hill FundOakwood Foundation Ch…Dammann Fund IncThe High Stakes Found…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA52.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Leaw Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leaw Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 99 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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