Connecticut · Private foundation
Leonard Litz Foundation
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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 72
- Grants FY2024
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $170,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 55
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Leonard Litz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $294k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 72 | $1.3M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $1.0M | 56% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $734k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $771k | 97% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $71k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Triangle Community Center Inc | $423,500 | 5 | 11% |
| Centerlink Inc | $185,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Bridgeport Pride Center Inc | $131,000 | 1 | 56% |
| Pride Network Inc | $118,500 | 4 | 27% |
| Odyssey Teen Camp Inc | $115,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Washington Blade Foundation | $102,500 | 4 | 37% |
| In Our Own Voices Inc | $90,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Glaad Inc | $75,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Eastern Pa Trans Equity Project Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 34% |
| Congregation Beit Simchat Torah | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Leonard Litz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Centerlink Inc · Wild Geese Foundation Inc · Gill Foundation · David Bohnett Foundation · Tides Foundation · The World Health Clinicians Inc · Advancing Connecticut Together Inc · Health Care Advocates International Inc · The Astraea Foundation Inc · The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · Arcus Foundation · AIDS Healthcare Foundation
How this is measured
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About Leonard Litz Foundation
- How much does Leonard Litz Foundation give?
- Leonard Litz Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $1,275,809 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 55 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Leonard Litz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (47%), Human Services (12%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Leonard Litz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Triangle Community Center Inc ($424k), Centerlink Inc ($185k), Bridgeport Pride Center Inc ($131k).
- Does Leonard Litz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leonard Litz 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 Leonard Litz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Centerlink Inc, Wild Geese Foundation Inc, Gill Foundation.
- Where is Leonard Litz Foundation based?
- Leonard Litz Foundation is based in CT.
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