· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Best Friends Animal Society | $45,000 |
| ADOPT-A-DOG Inc | $35,000 |
| MCPCA Cape Cod Animal Care & Adoption Center | $35,000 |
| Paws Crossed Animal Rescue Inc | $30,000 |
| Bideawee Inc | $30,000 |
| The North Shore Animal League | $25,000 |
| SPCA Westchester Inc | $25,000 |
| The Humane Society of the United States | $20,000 |
| National Audubon Society | $20,000 |
| Humane Society Mohawk Hudson | $20,000 |
| Connecticut Humane Society | $20,000 |
| ASPCA | $20,000 |
| Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue | $15,000 |
| National Wildlife Federation | $10,000 |
| World Wide Life Fund | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY7× · 2019–2025 · $285k · revenue +44%- AIADOPT-A-DOG INC7× · 2019–2025 · $235k · revenue +16%
BIDEAWEE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- DODefenders of Wildlifeone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +13%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.
Rescue dogs and cats to find them forever homes
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-DOG INC ↗
- Who funds BIDEAWEE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds PETS FOR PATRIOTS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leona Bothmer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leona Bothmer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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