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Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$76k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,550
Largest grant, FY2025
$11,250
Organizations funded a year
7 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$76k22%
FY20248$62k50%
FY20239$60k22%
FY202211$52k18%
FY202116$72k19%
FY202022$73k36%
FY20197$20k43%
FY201821$66k90%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$506kRecreation & Sports$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nevada R-5 School District Public Foundation$10,00013%

Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($497k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen 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.

About Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen

How much does Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen give?
Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen reported 9 grants totaling $75,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
Who are Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nevada R-5 School District Public Foundation ($10k).
Does Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen based?
Leonard W Hester & Helen L Hester % Joseph Swearingen is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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