California · Private foundation
Leighton Foundation Inc
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.
- $570k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Leighton Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $570k | 74% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $170k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $107k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $136k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $128k | 78% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $60k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Teralta Art | $20,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Vista Christian School | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Scripps Ranch Wrestling Booster Clu B | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Elijo Middle School Band Booster Club | $8,500 | 1 | 9% |
| Turtleback Education Foundation | $8,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Willard B Hage Elementary PTA | $7,500 | 1 | 20% |
| Wolverine Athletic Foundation | $6,800 | 1 | 1% |
| Wildcoast | $2,880 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Leighton Foundation Inc
- How much does Leighton Foundation Inc give?
- Leighton Foundation Inc reported 45 grants totaling $569,740 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Leighton Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (63%), Arts & Culture (16%), Community Improvement (8%).
- Who are Leighton Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Uc San Diego Foundation ($25k), Teralta Art ($20k), Vista Christian School ($20k).
- Does Leighton Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leighton Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Leighton Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Leighton Foundation Inc based?
- Leighton Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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