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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 FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$170k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Civil Rights$1.8MHuman Services$483kRecreation & Sports$424kYouth Development$333kHealth$131kHousing & Shelter$123kEducation$120kArts & Culture$114kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $529k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $683k
$7,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$170,000
BRIDGEPORT PRIDE CENTER INC$131,000
TRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER$119,500
CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
THE LOFT$60,000
GLAAD$52,200
CENTERLINK$50,000
THE PRIDE NETWORK$39,000
CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH$35,000
NEW HAVEN PRIDE CENTER$30,000
ALI-FORNEY CENTER$27,500
ODYSSEY TEEN CAMP$25,000
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE$25,000
OUTRIGHT VERMONT$25,000
MILWAUKE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $434k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%THE WELCOME PROJECT PA: $10k → 7%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF FINGER LAKES: $10k → 10%CARIBBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT: $30k → 13%MILWAUKE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 17%OUTCT: $2k → 9%BRIDGEPORT PRIDE CENTER INC: $131k → 9%SAM AND DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH: $15k → 4%PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $11k → 11%DUTCHESS COUNTY PRIDE CENTER: $5k → 9%SAM AND DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH: $15k → 4%EASTERN PA TRANS EQUALITY PROJECT: $25k → 11%NEW HAVEN PRIDE CENTER: $30k → 12%SAM AND DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH: $10k → 4%EASTERN PA TRANS EQUALITY PROJECT: $25k → 11%DUTCHESS COUNTY PRIDE CENTER: $500 → 9%NEW HAVEN PRIDE CENTER: $15k → 12%EASTERN PA TRANS EQUALITY PROJECT: $25k → 11%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%HETRICK MARTIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
WV
VA
MD
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 52 repeat orgs$738k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
37

Total granted

$3.1M
$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+30%

Still filing today

56%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    TRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $424k · revenue +16%
  • PN
    PRIDE NETWORK INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $119k · revenue +19% · 27% of their budget
  • IO
    IN OUR OWN VOICES INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $90k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • CE
    CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +30%
  • GM
    GAY MEN'S CHORUS OF WASHINGTON DC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • LO
    LIVE OUT LOUD
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hudson Valley Lgbtq Community Center Inc

As a safe, supportive environment, the Hudson Valley LBGTQ Community Center provides services, professional resources, and programs that unite the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, and queer community across lines of age, race, gender,…

Human Services
2
Pride Center of Vermont Inc

Pride Center of Vermont educates, advocates and celebrates with and for LGBTQ+ Vermonters.

Human Services
3
The Alliance for Lgbtq Youth Inc

The Alliance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Youth provides mental health and care coordination services, leadership development, and policy advocacy that centers the lives and experiences of LGBTQ youth in…

Human Services
4
Queer Works

Our mission is to ameliorate disparities faced by transgender, gender non-binary and intersex people as well as help reduce similar disparities among our lesbian, gay and bisexual communities.

Health
5
Interpride

To contribute to the visibility and inclusion of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (sogiesc) communities. to connect, grow, and support pride platforms and networks globally. to assist…

Education
6
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc

EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…

Human Services
7
The American Museum of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender History & Culture

Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people

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8
Lgbt Center Intercultural Collective Inc

Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo is a social organization, which works on the empowerment of human rights, access and comprehensive health care of TransGNB people, strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender…

Civil Rights
9
Pride Center of Staten Island Inc

To enhance and sustain the well-being of the lgbtqia+ and allied communities by providing programs and services that cultivate community; advocate for lgbtqia+ interests; educate and empower, and provide social support.

Civil Rights
10
Lavender Legal Center

Public interest law firm

Crime & Legal
11
EqualityMaine

EqualityMaine works to protect and advance full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through political action, community building, education,…

Civil Rights
12
Queer Asterisk

Queer Asterisk empowers and nurtures the diverse ways of being that LGBTQ people embody by providing accessible counseling, education and community programs that uplift LGBTQ lives

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Gay and Lesbian Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersChristian Youth CampsSenior Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportJewish Community Organizati…Independent K-12 SchoolsAffordable Housing Developm…Lgbtq+ Community Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%14%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%9%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,497

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 122 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
35/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $542,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE LOFT — $210,000 · OtherTHE LOFTCITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $135,000 · OtherCITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONGLAAD INC — $75,400 · OtherCONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH — $70,000 · Other+78 more — $1,013,200 · Other+78 moreCENTERLINK INC — $185,000 · Civil RightsCENTERLINK INCPRIDE NETWORK INC — $118,500 · Civil RightsPRIDE NETWORK INCIN OUR OWN VOICES INC — $90,000 · Civil RightsIN OUR OWN VOICES…ROCKLAND COUNTY PRIDE CENTER INC — $40,500 · Civil RightsROCKLAND COUNTY P…BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER INC — $40,000 · Civil RightsBROOKLYN COMMUNIT…PRIDE CENTER OF NEW JERSEY INC — $20,000 · Civil Rights+10 more — $95,579 · Civil Rights+10 moreBRIDGEPORT PRIDE CENTER INC — $131,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT PR…EASTERN PA TRANS EQUITY PROJECT INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesEASTERN PA TR…THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE HETRICK-M…NEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesNEW HAVEN GAY…OUT IN THE OPEN INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesOUT IN THE OP…Sam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth — $40,000 · Human ServicesSam & Devorah…CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesCARRIBEAN EQU…MILWAUKEE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human Services+5 more — $38,000 · Human Services+5 moreTRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $423,500 · Recreation & SportsTRIANGLE COM…WASHINGTON BLADE FOUNDATION — $102,500 · Arts & CultureHARVARD GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBlack Rock Theater Corporation — $7,500 · Arts & CultureODYSSEY TEEN CAMP INC — $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH PRIDE INC — $40,000 · HealthWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $30,000 · HealthJERSEY CITY CONNECTIONS INC — $10,000 · HealthFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · Health
Other$2,046,100Civil Rights$589,579Human Services$474,000Recreation & Sports$423,500Arts & Culture$135,000Youth Development$115,000Health$92,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $423,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetCENTERLINK INC — $185,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBRIDGEPORT PRIDE CENTER INC — $131,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetPRIDE NETWORK INC — $118,500 over 4y, 27% of budgetODYSSEY TEEN CAMP INC — $115,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetWASHINGTON BLADE FOUNDATION — $102,500 over 4y, 37% of budgetIN OUR OWN VOICES INC — $90,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGLAAD INC — $75,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEASTERN PA TRANS EQUITY PROJECT INC — $75,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $60,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBRADBURY-SULLIVAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — $60,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $45,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetROCKLAND COUNTY PRIDE CENTER INC — $40,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOUT IN THE OPEN INC — $40,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth — $40,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetYOUTH PRIDE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE NORWALK CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS INC — $37,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHARVARD GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPRIDE CENTER OF NEW JERSEY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetEDGE NEW JERSEY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAZZONI CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRIDEWORKS — $15,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFREESTATE JUSTICE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Pride Center Of Maryland Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetROXBURY YOUTHWORKS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLGBTQ Victory Institute Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON — $10,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAMA DRAGONS — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCommunity Shelter Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOUT Maine — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJERSEY CITY CONNECTIONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINREACH — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUT METROWEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Centerlink IncWild Geese Foundation…Gill FoundationDavid Bohnett Foundat…Tides FoundationThe World Health Clin…Advancing Connecticut…Health Care Advocates…The Astraea Foundatio…The Thomas Phillips a…Arcus FoundationAIDS Healthcare Found…
Centerlink IncFL32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Leonard Litz Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Roxbury Youthworks Inc — 88% of income from government
  • The Pride Center of Maryland Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Out in the Open Inc — 25% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
  • Centerlink Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Mid Fairfield Aids Project — 10% of income from government
  • Out Metrowest Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Edge New Jersey Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Triangle Community Center Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Black Rock Theater Corporation — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Leonard Litz Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leonard Litz 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines