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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
13
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

87
’20
88
’21
90
’22
86
’23
6
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$45MCommunity Improvement$3.0MEducation$1.1MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHuman Services$933kPublic Benefit$856kRecreation & Sports$745kEnvironment$508kOther$0
02FY2023 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k88 grants · $146k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $640k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $625k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$1,800
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND$500,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$225,000
PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST$100,000
OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$100,000
GREENE SCHOLARS$75,000
SECOND HARVEST SILICON VALLEY$75,000
IMMIGRANTS RISING$50,000
KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS$40,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$40,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL$40,000
UPWARDLY GLOBAL$40,000
UPSTART BAY AREA$35,000
SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY$35,000
EDUCATION PIONEERS$30,000
REPAIR THE WORLD$30,000
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 (FY20–23, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $20k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $4k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $4k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $15k → 8%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.4M · 126 repeat orgs$457k to everyone else

126 repeat relationships — 99 still active in FY2023, 27 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126
30

Total granted

$9.4M
$438k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthReligionCivil RightsOther

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

  • TJ
    TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $743k · revenue +82%
  • PO
    PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST
    2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +152%
  • GS
    Greene Scholars
    5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • PF
    POST FARMLAND FUTURES
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION TEEN CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • E4
    EDUCATORS 4 FAIR CONSIDERATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

—
3
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
4
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
5
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
6
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

—
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
11
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc

(continued from page 1) nationally and internationally. Further, J seeks to enrich the cultural, religious and social life of the community through its articles, interviews and features.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Computer History Museum. 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 FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local History MuseumsPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Development CentersSenior Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support ServicesSchool District FoundationsCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and AdvocacyLocal Food System Organizat…Jewish Community Organizati…
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 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%6%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr14%34%20–35yr16%17%35–55yr20%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr16%66%35–55yr20%2%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/125
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,181

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

120 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. 120 of the 173 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/120
Grantees still filing
76/120
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $27,443,451 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $2,680,000 · Community ImprovementACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC+4 more — $382,000 · Community ImprovementDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $8,373,102 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCDaffy Charitable Fund — $8,373,102 · PhilanthropyDaffy Charitable Fund+5 more — $655,100 · PhilanthropyTHE OPPORTUNITY FUND — $720,000 · OtherOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $593,788 · OtherOSHMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $200,000 · OtherUPWARDLY GLOBAL — $140,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $205,000 · Other+121 more — $2,267,507 · OtherTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $743,000 · Religion+6 more — $24,800 · ReligionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $233,750 · Food & NutritionKITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS — $230,000 · Food & NutritionFRESH APPROACH — $120,000 · Food & NutritionECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM — $39,500 · Food & NutritionFARM TO FIGHT HUNGER — $34,400 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $2,000 · Food & NutritionEDUCATION PIONEERS — $185,000 · EducationSCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC — $150,000 · EducationThe Charlie Cart Project — $145,000 · EducationThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $98,000 · Education+11 more — $63,550 · EducationPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $400,000 · Environment+4 more — $12,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$30,505,451Philanthropy$17,401,304Other$4,126,295Religion$767,800Food & Nutrition$659,650Education$641,550Environment$412,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $27,443,451 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $8,373,102 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDaffy Charitable Fund — $8,373,102 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $2,680,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $743,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $593,788 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $400,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGreene Scholars — $305,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $233,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS — $230,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $225,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $205,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS — $185,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC — $150,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetThe Charlie Cart Project — $145,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetUPWARDLY GLOBAL — $140,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVEGGIELUTION — $130,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HEALTH TRUST — $130,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMy Digital TAT2 Inc — $121,507 over 4y, 13% of budgetFRESH APPROACH — $120,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $116,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $115,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJOBTRAIN INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $98,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLIVING CLASSROOM — $95,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD — $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE — $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $64,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUPSTART BAY AREA — $62,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $40,400 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM — $39,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFARM TO FIGHT HUNGER — $34,400 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC — $18,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChallenge Success — $11,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC — $11,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Center — $10,300 over 4y, 0.1% 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.

Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…Gordon E and Betty I …The David and Lucile …The Palo Alto Communi…John and Marcia Goldm…Los Altos Mountain Vi…Atkinson FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Koret FoundationPhilanthropic Venture…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA57.8× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Leslie Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
32report 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 Leslie Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leslie Family 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 173 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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