New York · Private foundation
Leonian Charitable Trust
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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $520,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Leonian Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $332k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $1.4M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $582k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $1.9M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $6.2M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $8.7M | 37% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $5.3M | 48% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $2.0M | 58% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $11M | 65% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yavne Foundation Inc | $4,475,000 | 8 | 54% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $4,234,038 | 5 | 0% |
| Chabad East Lakeview Inc | $2,244,850 | 3 | n/a |
| The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | $1,500,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Chicago Mezuzah and Mitzvah Campaign | $976,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Lubavitch Girls High School Inc | $950,000 | 3 | 18% |
| Fund More Good Foundation Inc | $900,000 | 4 | 78% |
| The Ember Foundation | $605,250 | 6 | 39% |
| Chicago Jewish Day School | $525,000 | 2 | 4% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Leonian Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Crain-Maling Foundation · Walder Foundation · Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation · The Ojc Fund · The Novick Family Foundation · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Leonian Charitable Trust
- How much does Leonian Charitable Trust give?
- Leonian Charitable Trust reported 6 grants totaling $1,425,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Leonian Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Religion (26%), Education (6%).
- Who are Leonian Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yavne Foundation Inc ($4.5M), The Art Institute of Chicago ($4.2M), Chabad East Lakeview Inc ($2.2M).
- Does Leonian Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leonian Charitable Trust 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 Leonian Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jewish Communal Fund, Crain-Maling Foundation.
- Where is Leonian Charitable Trust based?
- Leonian Charitable Trust is based in NY.
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