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Leclairryan Foundation at a glance

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Leclairryan Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2018
20
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Human Services$29kHealth$18kCrime & Legal$16kYouth Development$16kEducation$11kArts & Culture$8kSocial Science$5kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2018 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$31k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
KIDS IN CRISIS$5,000
THE DOORWAYS$5,000
LGBT BAR ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NY$5,000
NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE$5,000
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF GREATER SACRAMENTO CA$3,500
VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER$2,500
GALGOS DEL SOL USA$2,500
LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER$2,500
YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND$2,500
JR LEAGUE OF NORFOLK - VA BEACH$2,500
PANS RESEARCH & ADVOCACY INITIATIVE$2,500
HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION$2,500
PATRICK HENRY HS OUTREACH COMMITTEE$2,500
CHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER PROGRAM$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES LEGAL NETWORK: $2k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES LEGAL NETWORK: $1k → 14%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 22%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $3k → 22%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.
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 7 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$47k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+23%

Still filing today

57%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalEducationOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +154%
  • KI
    KIDS IN CRISIS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +76%
  • VP
    VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • RM
    RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE - BUDDY & ANN ALLEN SCHOLOARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • LH
    LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +56%
  • FA
    FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +54%
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
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
2
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
3
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.

Crime & Legal
4
Volunteer Legal Advocates

To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…

Housing & Shelter
5
The Virginia Bar Association

To cultivate & advance the science of jurisprudence, promote reform in the law & in judicial procedure, facilitate the administration of justice in virginia, and to uphold & elevate the standard of honor, integrity, and courtesy in the…

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6
Virginia Law Foundation

Virginia law foundation's mission is to promote through philanthropy the rule of law, access to justice and law related education.

Crime & Legal
7
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
8
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
9
Disability Law Center of Virginia

Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…

Human Services
10
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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11
Virginia Sheriffs' Association Inc

Vsa represents sheriffs and their staff on criminal justice issues on a state level and provides information about emerging law enforcement issues, corrections and crime prevention to sheriff's offices and the public.

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12
Legal Aid of West Virginia Inc

To advocate for low-income, vulnerable west virginians seeking equal access to justice and create system change in order to improve client safety, health, housing, income, and access to resources.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769); the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of Greater Hampton Roads Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DOORWAYS: $10,000 · OtherTHE DOORWAYSKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $10,000 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INCRANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE - BUDDY & ANN ALLEN SCHOLOARSHIP FUND: $5,320 · OtherRANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE - BUDDY & ANN ALLEN SCHOLOARSHIP FUNDLGBT BAR ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NY: $5,000 · OtherLGBT BAR ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NYPANS RESEARCH & ADVOCACY INITIATIVE: $5,000 · OtherPANS RESEARCH & ADVOCACY INITIATIVENEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · OtherNEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INCCHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER PROGRAM: $4,000 · OtherCHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER PROGRAMBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $3,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF GREATER SACRAMENTO CA: $3,500 · OtherUNBOUNDRVA: $3,000 · OtherJR LEAGUE OF NORFOLK - VA BEACH: $2,500 · OtherPATRICK HENRY HS OUTREACH COMMITTEE: $2,500 · OtherDESTINATION IMAGINATION INC: $2,500 · Other+8 more: $11,372 · Other+8 moreChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $10,000 · HealthChildren's Hosp…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA: $3,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOU…LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER: $2,500 · HealthLEGAL INFORMATI…FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS A…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $2,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC …Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $2,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men…LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY TAX LAW PROJECT: $1,000 · Crime & LegalGALGOS DEL SOL USA: $2,500 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER HAMPTON ROADS INC: $2,500 · InternationalNew Haven County Bar Foundation Inc: $2,000 · EducationST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education
Other$73,192Health$16,000Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$7,500Crime & Legal$6,000International$5,000Education$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNBOUNDRVA: $3,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGALGOS DEL SOL USA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDESTINATION IMAGINATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER HAMPTON ROADS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Haven County Bar Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetPROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY TAX LAW PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $82 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…Williams Mullen Found…Carmax FoundationThe Pauley Family Fou…Robins FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Community Foundation IncVA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Leclairryan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leclairryan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to Leclairryan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leclairryan 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.

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 35 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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