· Private foundation
Leslie Fund Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k58 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC | $40,000 |
| BRIGID ALLIANCE INC | $30,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $29,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC | $23,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS | $20,000 |
| OUTDOORS FOR ALL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $19,000 |
| THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INCORPORATED | $12,000 |
| ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| OUTDOORS FOR ALL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $8,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
96 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OFOutdoors for all Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $605k · revenue +71%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra8× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +58%
- NONEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- AWAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +54%
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INCone grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -41%- CFCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE Ione grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
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See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
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The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
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To build a thriving, just and empowered pacific northwest using capital, relationships and voice.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Lower 9TH Ward Homeownership Association. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
106 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. 106 of the 120 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Outdoors for all Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HUMANITIES AND ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CIVITAS ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Seattle Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds Little Village Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · United Way of King County · Artsfund · Raikes Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Medina 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 Fund Inc 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.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
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.