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Leder Family 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2022
24
Grants FY2022
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

67% of Leder Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federation Of Greater Washington Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Leder Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

15
’21
21
’22
20
’23
11
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Philanthropy$1.8MEducation$1.1MScience & Tech$500kCivil Rights$210kHealth$142kEmployment$65kYouth Development$58kInternational$56kOther$0
02FY2022 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k12 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED EDUCATION IN THE SCIENCES$500,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$500,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL ARTS AND$50,000
DIRECT RELIEF$50,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC$50,000
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE$33,333
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL ARTS AND$30,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONA$10,000
CITY KIDS TO WILDERNESS PROJECT INC$10,000
BREAST CARE FOR WASHINGTON$10,000
WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION$10,000
COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE INC$5,000
COLLEGETRACKS$5,000
AUTISM SPEAKS INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EL SOL JUPITERS NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5k → 11%UNCOMMON GOOD: $5k → 14%MARTHAS VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 8%COMFORT CASES INC: $3k → 8%GIVING FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $5k → 8%GIVING FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $3k → 8%BETHESDA CARES INC: $500 → 8%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MD
NC
DC
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 36% of Leder Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Leder Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.7% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$457k · 16 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$457k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+36%

Still filing today

75%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • GC
    GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $72k · revenue +19%
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $55k · revenue +13%
  • CK
    City Kids to Wilderness Project Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S NORWOOD EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • HF
    HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -74%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
5
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
7
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
8
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
9
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mi Vecinos. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Environmental Conservation …Developmental Disabilities …Policy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportCancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Ymca Youth DevelopmentCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr16%11%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr16%1%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr16%85%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,799

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.

05the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
28/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $1,600,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INCGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED EDUCATION IN THE SCIENCES INC — $500,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED EDUCATION…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION — $80,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT C…GETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $71,666 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGE+3 more — $20,000 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · Community ImprovementST FRANCES ACADEMY — $100,000 · OtherST FRANCES A…MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC — $55,000 · OtherMARTHA'S VIN…WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION — $35,000 · OtherWASHINGTON H…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY O…JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONA — $17,500 · OtherST JOHN'S NORWOOD EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $15,000 · OtherBREAST CARE FOR WASHINGTON — $17,500 · OtherCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE — $15,000 · OtherCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc — $30,000 · OtherCity Kids to…HOUR GENERATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherHOUR GENERAT…+24 more — $92,000 · Other+24 moreANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $210,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $5,000 · Civil RightsDIRECT RELIEF — $50,000 · InternationalYAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT — $25,000 · International+2 more — $5,000 · InternationalTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$1,755,000Education$1,171,666Community Improvement$300,000Other$432,000Civil Rights$215,000International$80,000Employment$65,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $1,600,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED EDUCATION IN THE SCIENCES INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $210,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $71,666 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC — $55,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOUR GENERATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBREAST CARE FOR WASHINGTON — $17,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGETRACKS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAIN STREET CONNECT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGiving Foundation For Women & Children — $7,500 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetEl Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNCOMMON GOOD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROMANIAN CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH ELECTORATE INSTITUTE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMFORT CASES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND BORDERS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMI VECINOS — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSINAI ASSISTED HOUSING FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAASAI GIRLS EDUCATION FUND — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA CARES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Philip L Graham Fund …United Way of the Nat…T Rowe Price Program …American Gift FundClark-Winchcole Found…The Jewish Federation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Boston Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC32.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Gift Fund · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Leder Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
  • Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines