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Leiter Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$104k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
88%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 88% of the organizations Leiter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$104k85%
FY202317$87k88%
FY202215$96k53%
FY202113$73k62%
FY202017$73k53%
FY201913$66k23%
FY201815$62k53%
FY20179$50kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$396kAnimals$140kEducation$31kInternational$23kFood & Nutrition$8kArts & Culture$5kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
ID
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
NM
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seacology$25,00030%
Wildearth Guardians$22,00050%
Capitol Land Trust$17,00040%
Green Empowerment$16,00031%
Columbia Land Trust$16,00020%
Prescott College Inc$14,00020%
Jefferson Land Trust$13,00020%
Trees Water and People$11,50030%
Fxb USA Inc$10,00022%
Eco-Logic Development Fund$10,00021%
Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($349k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leiter Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeacology: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWildearth Guardians: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCapitol Land Trust: $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGreen Empowerment: $16,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetColumbia Land Trust: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPrescott College Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJefferson Land Trust: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrees Water and People: $11,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFxb USA Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEco-Logic Development Fund: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCascade Forest Conservancy: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBurn Design Lab: $7,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetKaniksu Land Trust Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOkanogan Land Trust: $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPollinator Project Rogue Valley: $6,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWild Tomorrow Fund: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Big Bad Project: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetOne Earth Collective: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOne Stone Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCatskill Fly Fishing Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFiloli Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirds Georgia Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetConservation Nw: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGlobio: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDrink Local Drink Tap Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of Arava the Institute Ltd: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOne Earth Conservation: $4,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Kaleidoscope FoundationWA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaleidoscope Foundation · Land Trust Alliance Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Weyerhaeuser Family Foundationinc · The Burning Foundation · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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How do I get to Leiter Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leiter Family 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.

About Leiter Family Foundation

How much does Leiter Family Foundation give?
Leiter Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $104,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Leiter Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (65%), Animals (23%), Education (5%).
Who are Leiter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Seacology ($25k), Wildearth Guardians ($22k), Capitol Land Trust ($17k).
Does Leiter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leiter Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Leiter Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaleidoscope Foundation, Land Trust Alliance Inc, The Oregon Community Foundation.
Where is Leiter Family Foundation based?
Leiter Family Foundation is based in WA.

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 77 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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