New York · Private foundation
Leona Bothmer 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.
- $375k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 17
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Leona Bothmer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $375k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $330k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $300k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $370k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $325k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $310k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $275k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Friends Animal Society | $285,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Adopt-A-Dog Inc | $235,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Bideawee Inc | $170,000 | 7 | 0% |
| North Shore Animal League America Inc | $170,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Connecticut Humane Society | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Paws Crossed Animal Rescue Inc | $110,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Spca of Westchester Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Friends Animal Society | $285,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Adopt-A-Dog Inc | $235,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Bideawee Inc | $170,000 | 7 | 0% |
| North Shore Animal League America Inc | $170,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Connecticut Humane Society | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Paws Crossed Animal Rescue Inc | $110,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Spca of Westchester Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Defenders of Wildlife | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pets for Patriots Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($615k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leona Bothmer Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Leona Bothmer Foundation
- How much does Leona Bothmer Foundation give?
- Leona Bothmer Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $375,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Leona Bothmer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (95%), Philanthropy (3%), Housing & Shelter (2%).
- Who are Leona Bothmer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Best Friends Animal Society ($285k), Adopt-A-Dog Inc ($235k), Bideawee Inc ($170k).
- Does Leona Bothmer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leona Bothmer Foundation 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 Leona Bothmer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Leona Bothmer Foundation based?
- Leona Bothmer Foundation is based in NY.
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