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Lederer 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.

$286k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$310kCivil Rights$308kPhilanthropy$169kEducation$120kInternational$65kScience & Tech$53kCrime & Legal$39kEnvironment$39kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $210k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDIA DEMOCRACY FUND$30,000
MOVEMENT VOTER FUND$30,000
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT$30,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$29,991
MOVEMENT PROTECTION FUND$25,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$25,000
COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION$10,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$10,000
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$10,000
CHINOOK FUND$10,000
PRO PUBLICA$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS$5,000
VERIFIED VOTING FOUNDATION$5,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND$5,000
FAIR FIGHT ACTION CIVIC EDUCATION AND VOTER PROTECTION FUND$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 (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AYNI INSTITUTE: $4k → 16%UNLOCKING FUTURES: $500 → 17%THE WOMENS FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $300 → 12%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

NH
WA
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$964k · 29 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
34

Total granted

$964k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+57%

Still filing today

90%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsInternationalEducationEnvironmentPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther

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

  • WD
    WOMEN DONORS NETWORK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +276%
  • PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT
    7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +347%
  • WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +182%

Funded once

  • JA
    JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +16%
  • TM
    TIDES MOVEMENT VOTER FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

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Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
2
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
3
Towards Justice of Colorado

Towards justice is a nonprofit law firm that seeks to advance economic equity and worker power through impact litigation, strategic policy advocacy, and collaboration with organizers and public agencies. we were founded in response to the…

Civil Rights
4
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
5
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

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6
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
7
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
8
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
9
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
12
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. 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 backsteadyGovernment Accountability R…Pregnancy Support ServicesLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Asian American Advocacy & H…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Jewish Community FederationsFood Pantries & Assistance
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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%45%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,498

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
47/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado — $84,991 · OtherAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Colora…MOVEMENT VOTER FUND — $50,000 · OtherMOVEMENT VOTER FUNDMEDIA DEMOCRACY FUND — $30,000 · OtherMEDIA DEMOCRACY FUNDMOVEMENT PROTECTION FUND — $25,000 · OtherMOVEMENT PROTECTION FUNDJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER — $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION — $20,000 · OtherTIDES MOVEMENT VOTER FUND — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $15,000 · OtherHUNGER FREE COLORADO — $20,000 · OtherUnited for A Fair Economy Inc — $17,500 · Other+29 more — $113,300 · Other+29 morePROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $100,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJ…ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK — $35,000 · Civil RightsROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRA…New Era Colorado Foundation — $30,000 · Civil RightsNew Era Colorado Found…The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice — $25,000 · Civil RightsThe Center for Media J…COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION — $15,000 · Civil RightsCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIG…CONSERVATION COLORADO — $10,000 · Civil RightsCOBALT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Civil Rights+8 more — $13,000 · Civil Rights+8 moreWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $153,275 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DONORS NETWO…CHINOOK FUND INC — $41,000 · PhilanthropyCHINOOK FUND INC+2 more — $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $53,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF …AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $36,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWI…GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $31,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND F…URGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM — $11,500 · InternationalURGENT ACTION…NEW ISRAEL FUND — $5,000 · International+3 more — $3,000 · InternationalWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $100,000 · EducationWILLIAM J B…MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $10,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTE…GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO — $7,000 · EducationGREAT EDUCA…+3 more — $6,000 · EducationCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $40,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $4,000 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $2,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $1,000 · Public BenefitCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY — $25,000 · Crime & LegalDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Crime & LegalColorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit — $4,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$430,791Civil Rights$238,000Philanthropy$200,275International$139,500Education$123,000Public Benefit$47,000Crime & Legal$34,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $153,275 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $100,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $100,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Colorado — $84,991 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $53,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHINOOK FUND INC — $41,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $36,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK — $35,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation — $30,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice — $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited for A Fair Economy Inc — $17,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM — $11,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE — $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO — $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO — $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit — $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREVISION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGrassroots Power Project — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORWARD MT — $2,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSTATE VOICES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationImpactassetsincNew Venture FundThe Ford FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncProteus Fund IncRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationThe Women's Foundatio…The Colorado Trust
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC41.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Colorado Trust

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 Lederer 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lederer Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lederer 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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