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Leestma Family Foundation at a glance

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Leestma Family 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.

$700k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$898kHealth$843kEducation$544kHousing & Shelter$520kFood & Nutrition$453kReligion$390kInternational$252kEnvironment$185kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $525k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Canal Alliance$90,000
Center for Domestic Peace$70,000
Planned Parenthood of Northern CA$40,000
Mark Day School$40,000
Cabrillo College Foundation The Ses$35,000
Jubilee Ministries$35,000
Community Action Marin$35,000
San Francisco-Marin Food Bank$30,000
Community Action House$30,000
Encompass Community Services GEMMA$25,000
The Salvation Army - San Rafael$25,000
10000 Degrees Marin Co School Volun$20,000
Doctors Without Borders$20,000
Deborah's Place$20,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository$20,000
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 (FY17–25, $810k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $10k → 10%Juvenile Protective Association: $10k → 14%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $10k → 10%Juvenile Protective Association: $10k → 14%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $10k → 10%Juvenile Protective Association: $10k → 14%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $10k → 10%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $6k → 10%Jubilee Ministries: $35k → 10%Jubilee Ministries: $25k → 10%Jubilee Ministries: $25k → 10%Jubilee Ministries: $25k → 10%Not for Sale Fund: $3k → 10%Jubilee Ministries: $25k → 10%Community Action Marin: $35k → 8%Jubilee Ministries: $20k → 10%Community Action Marin: $25k → 8%Jubilee Ministries: $20k → 10%Community Action Marin: $25k → 8%Jubilee Ministries: $20k → 10%Community Action Marin: $25k → 8%Jubilee Ministries: $20k → 10%Community Action Marin: $25k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $70k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $41k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $40k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $40k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $30k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $30k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $30k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $30k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $30k → 8%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $10k → 8%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $10k → 8%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $10k → 8%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $10k → 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

IL
MI
NY
CA
MD
AR
DC
GA
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 41 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
8

Total granted

$4.3M
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+31%

Still filing today

66%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationReligionFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CA
    CANAL ALLIANCE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +229%
  • Center for Domestic Peace
    9× · 2017–2025 · $341k · revenue +79%
  • JM
    JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +485%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Salvation Army - Fort Meyers Br
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • FO
    Friends of Marin County School Volu
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
5
Mentis

Mentis provides bilingual professional mental health services to people throughout the county of every age, stage, and income level.

Human Services
6
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
7
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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8
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
9
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
California Agricultural Leadership Found

To enhance the long-term viability of california agriculture through leadership development, which in turn benefits the people and communities that agriculture serves. we grow leaders who make a difference.

Food & Nutrition
12
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action House; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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

36 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. 36 of the 55 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Falk Center for Molecular Therapeut: $180,000 · OtherFalk Center for Molecular TherapeutST JAMES CATHEDRAL COUNSELING CTR: $175,000 · OtherST JAMES CATHEDRAL COUNSELING CTREncompass Community Services GEMMA: $173,000 · OtherEncompass Community Services GEMMASAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $150,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKPlanned Parenthood of Northern CA: $130,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of Northern CATRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL: $120,000 · OtherTRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONALPlanned Parenthood: $113,000 · OtherMARK DAY SCHOOL: $112,000 · OtherG WELL INC: $106,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity: $95,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $80,000 · OtherLand Conservancy of West Michigan: $75,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $95,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH CLIENT ACTION NETWORK: $92,500 · Other+23 more: $547,000 · Other+23 moreCenter for Domestic Peace: $340,500 · Human ServicesCenter for Domestic …JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC: $215,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE MINISTRIES I…COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $135,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION MAR…HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $86,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PR…JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesCANAL ALLIANCE: $390,000 · ReligionCANAL ALLI…The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $15,000 · Religion10000 DEGREES: $130,000 · EducationCabrillo College Foundation: $116,300 · EducationThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $45,000 · EducationNORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC: $40,000 · EducationGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $160,000 · Food & NutritionMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $90,000 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $210,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $17,000 · InternationalDEBORAH'S PLACE: $130,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $80,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,243,500Human Services$809,500Religion$405,000Education$331,300Food & Nutrition$250,000International$227,000Housing & Shelter$210,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $390,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Domestic Peace: $340,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetJUBILEE MINISTRIES INC: $215,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $210,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST JAMES CATHEDRAL COUNSELING CTR: $175,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $150,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $130,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budget10000 DEGREES: $130,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL: $120,000 over 8y, 50% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation: $116,300 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMARK DAY SCHOOL: $112,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $95,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH CLIENT ACTION NETWORK: $92,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $90,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $86,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLand Conservancy of West Michigan: $75,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $45,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSLIDE RANCH: $45,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNorthwestern University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Marin Community Services: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYouth in Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOT FOR SALE FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $3,000 over 1y, 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 CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Center for Domestic Peace ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES CATHEDRAL COUNSELING CTR ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds TRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MARK DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CLIENT ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
  • Who funds SLIDE RANCH ↗
  • Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds North Marin Community Services ↗

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.

Leonard & Beryl Buck …Marin Community Found…Bothin FoundationMcNabb FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Hobsonlucas Family Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Gordon E and Betty I …Amg Charitable Gift F…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Chicago Community…The San Francisco Fou…
Leonard & Beryl Buck FoundationMO21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Chicago Community Trust · The San Francisco 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 Leestma Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leestma Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 55 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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