California · Private foundation
Leslie Family Foundation
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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2023
- 119
- Grants FY2023
- 109
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Leslie Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Leslie Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 86 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 109 to 120
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 13
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Leslie Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 109 | $1.6M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 118 | $1.8M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 114 | $1.9M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 120 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accion Opportunity Fund Inc | $2,680,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Tawonga Jewish Community Corporation | $743,000 | 2 | 9% |
| The Opportunity Fund | $720,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oshman Family Jewish Community Center | $593,788 | 3 | 1% |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $400,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greene Scholars | $305,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $233,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Kitchen Table Advisors | $230,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Education Pioneers | $185,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Science Is Elementary Inc | $150,000 | 4 | 17% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($900k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leslie Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · John and Marcia Goldman Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Koret Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
How this is measured
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About Leslie Family Foundation
- How much does Leslie Family Foundation give?
- Leslie Family Foundation reported 119 grants totaling $1,911,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 109 and 120 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Leslie Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (82%), Community Improvement (6%), Education (2%).
- Who are Leslie Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Accion Opportunity Fund Inc ($2.7M), Tawonga Jewish Community Corporation ($743k), The Opportunity Fund ($720k).
- Does Leslie Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leslie Family 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 Leslie Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Leslie Family Foundation based?
- Leslie Family Foundation is based in CA.
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