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Leiser 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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$168kHealth$113kCivil Rights$74kPhilanthropy$68kEducation$36kInternational$33kArts & Culture$15kEnvironment$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$20,000
USHMM - NE REGIONAL OFFICE$20,000
BETH JACOB SYNAGOGUE$17,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$15,000
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY AND MEDICINE$6,000
CHABAD OF EASTERN CT$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT$4,000
MACCABI USA$3,000
AVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY$1,000
GARDE ARTS CENTER$1,000
ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB$1,000
UCFS HEALTHCARE$600
CONGREGATION AHAVATH CHESED$325
HADASSAH$100
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 47% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 14%CAMP RAMAH OF EASTERN CT: $5k → 7%CONGREGATION BETH-EL: $2k → 8%MACCABI USA: $3k → 22%ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB: $2k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $18k → 17%BETH JACOB SYNAGOGUE: $18k → 9%YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $25k → 12%ONE PENCIL PROJECT: $6k → 8%RUACH CHAIM INC: $3k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $15k → 17%BETH JACOB SYNAGOGUE: $6k → 9%YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $24k → 12%ONE PENCIL PROJECT: $3k → 8%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $20k → 17%YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $24k → 12%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $19k → 17%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $17k → 17%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $17k → 17%RAMAH ISRAEL: $1k → 17%AMERICA GIVES: $18k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT: $21k → 9%USHMM - NE REGIONAL OFFICE: $20k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT: $20k → 9%USHMM - NE REGIONAL OFFICE: $20k → 17%SOLOMON SCHECHTER ACADEMY: $13k → 9%USHMM - NE REGIONAL OFFICE: $20k → 17%GARDE ARTS CENTER: $7k → 9%USHMM - NE REGIONAL OFFICE: $19k → 17%CHABAD OF EASTERN CT: $7k → 9%USHMM - NE REGIONAL OFFICE: $9k → 17%CHABAD OF EASTERN CT: $6k → 9%USHMM - NE REGIONAL OFFICE: $6k → 17%MITCHELL COLLEGE: $6k → 9%USHMM - NE REGIONAL OFFICE: $4k → 17%MITCHELL COLLEGE: $6k → 9%CHABAD OF EASTERN CT: $5k → 9%GARDE ARTS CENTER: $5k → 9%CHABAD OF EASTERN CT: $5k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT: $4k → 9%CONGREGATION BETH-EL: $3k → 9%CHABAD OF EASTERN CT: $2k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT: $2k → 9%GARDE ARTS CENTER: $2k → 9%CHABAD OF EASTERN CT: $2k → 9%CONGREGATION BETH-EL: $1k → 9%CONGREGATION BETH-EL: $1k → 9%CHABAD OF EASTERN CT: $1k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT: $1k → 9%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

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CA
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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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$497k · 21 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$497k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-20%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
EnvironmentHealthEducationCivil RightsInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • YN
    YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +64%
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $74k · revenue +58%
  • GA
    Garde Arts Center Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • AG
    AMERICA GIVES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -25%
  • CR
    CAMP RAMAH OF EASTERN CT
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • RC
    RUACH CHAIM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -8%

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
American Friends of Rabbinical College Netiv Hadaat Inc

To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem

Education
2
Jcc Rockland Inc

JCC Rockland is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the enrichment and continuity of Jewish life and to the preservation of Jewish heritage.

Human Services
3
New Haven Jewish Community Council Housing Corporation D/B/a the Towers

We are a warm and vibrant senior community, infused with jewish values, where people live their best lives.

4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

5
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc

The jewish federation of greater new haven, inc. is the central planning, fund-raising and coordinating body of the jewish community in new haven county,connecticut. the jewish federation funds a variety of constituent and beneficiary…

8
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
9
Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Inc

The jewish foundation of greater new haven's mission is to solicit and properly manage current and new charitable endowments and planned gifts for organizations in greater new haven so that there will be permanent and ongoing funding for…

Religion
10
Magen David of Manhattan

The organization maintains a jewish community center to provide social and educational services to the jewish community in new york city, new york.

Religion
11
National Ramah Commission Inc

The national ramah commission (nrc) is the central coordinating, convening, and catalyzing body of the ramah camping movement. the nrc works with our movement's professional and lay leadership to preserve, strengthen, and build on the…

12
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Magen David Adom and the most unlike its peers is Wings of Rescue Inc. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 29 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

USHMM - NE REGIONAL OFFICE — $99,100 · OtherUSHMM - NE REGIONAL OFFICEJEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $50,795 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INCCHABAD OF EASTERN CT — $30,093 · OtherCHABAD OF EASTERN CTBETH JACOB SYNAGOGUE — $23,100 · OtherBETH JACOB SYNAGOGUEPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $19,600 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY AND MEDICINE — $18,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY AND MEDICINESOLOMON SCHECHTER ACADEMY — $12,750 · OtherONE PENCIL PROJECT — $11,500 · Other+15 more — $38,243 · Other+15 moreYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $74,575 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN H…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $73,500 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $32,500 · InternationalAMERICA GIVES INC — $17,500 · PhilanthropyGarde Arts Center Inc — $14,900 · Arts & CultureMITCHELL COLLEGE — $11,700 · Education
Other$303,181Health$74,575Civil Rights$73,500International$32,500Philanthropy$17,500Arts & Culture$14,900Education$11,700

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $74,575 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $73,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $50,795 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGarde Arts Center Inc — $14,900 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMITCHELL COLLEGE — $11,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRUACH CHAIM INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OF RESCUE INC — $50 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.

  • Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
  • Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC
  • Who funds Garde Arts Center Inc
  • Who funds MITCHELL COLLEGE
  • Who funds AVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
  • Who funds MACCABI USA INC
  • Who funds RUACH CHAIM INC
  • Who funds WINGS OF RESCUE 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.

The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut IncCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Leiser 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc21% of income from government
  • Garde Arts Center Inc10% of income from government
  • Mitchell College2% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 29 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.

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