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Leichtag 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $576k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $793,459 |
| COASTAL ROOTS FARM 1 | $494,334 |
| IMPACT CUBED | $363,383 |
| KEREN SHITUF TORMIN DONOR-AVISED FUNDLTD | $264,500 |
| JGIVE FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC | $150,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS | $105,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $101,000 |
| HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO | $50,220 |
| JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK | $50,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $35,000 |
| TEMECH INC | $33,750 |
| JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK | $25,000 |
| 70 FACES MEDIA | $20,000 |
| HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO | $20,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 80% of grant dollars ($30M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($7.6M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 20% of all-years giving ($7.6M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Leichtag 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. Read by recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 48% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
178 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 151 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CRCOASTAL ROOTS FARM8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +218% · 67% of their budget
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +78%
- TSTHE SAN MARCOS PROMISE4× · 2018–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +81% · 76% of their budget
Funded once
- KSKEREN SHITUF TORMIN DONOR-ADVISED FUNDLTDone grant, 2022 · $1.6M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $433k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $405k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
(continued from page 1) nationally and internationally. Further, J seeks to enrich the cultural, religious and social life of the community through its articles, interviews and features.
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,…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Litvak Dance Arts Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
321 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. 321 of the 480 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN MARCOS PROMISE ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds IMPACT CUBED ↗
- Who funds QUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEMECH INC CO AVI SCHRON ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds SEACREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEAH'S PANTRY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds ProduceGood ↗
- Who funds CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds EDEN VILLAGE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds SOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua
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 Leichtag 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.
- American Public Gardens Association — 10% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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