· Private foundation
Leonard Hill Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $764k
- $250k+9 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE TRACK LOS ANGELES | $825,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS | $755,000 |
| PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION | $560,000 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $500,000 |
| PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED | $500,000 |
| READING PARTNERS | $500,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $500,000 |
| YMCA | $378,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC | $250,000 |
| SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE | $200,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $180,000 |
| AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR NOPROFIT NEWS | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS | $80,000 |
| IKAR | $54,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of Leonard Hill Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 71%.
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 +49% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% 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
Backed again, and grew
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS6× · 2019–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +94%
CITY YEAR INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +0%- BSBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION2× · 2018–2020 · $1.5M · revenue +318% · 82% of their budget
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $410k · revenue -51%
- NCNATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INCone grant, 2022 · $295k · revenue -61%
- JSJ STREET EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
To increase educational equity by providing joyful, enriching learning experiences for middle school students, aspiring teachers, and experienced educators.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 74 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CureCervicalCancer ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds National Education Opportunity Network Inc ↗
- Who funds PS ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE MATCH ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FIELD RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds READY TO SUCCEED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gates Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leonard Hill Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leonard Hill Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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