Delaware · 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.
- $446k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 72
- Grants FY2025
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 76
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Leslie Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 67 | $438k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 72 | $435k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $509k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $460k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $453k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $441k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $460k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 56 | $448k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outdoors for all Foundation | $605,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $254,450 | 8 | 0% |
| New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc | $172,000 | 8 | 0% |
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $124,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The University of Puget Sound | $122,600 | 3 | 0% |
| The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Brigid Alliance Inc | $97,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Voter Participation Center | $92,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Southeast Inc | $68,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 104 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($155k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leslie Fund Inc 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: 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
How this is measured
About Leslie Fund Inc
- How much does Leslie Fund Inc give?
- Leslie Fund Inc reported 72 grants totaling $446,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Leslie Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Recreation & Sports (16%), Education (12%).
- Who are Leslie Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Outdoors for all Foundation ($605k), Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($254k), New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc ($172k).
- Does Leslie Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leslie Fund Inc 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 Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Greater New Orleans Foundation.
- Where is Leslie Fund Inc based?
- Leslie Fund Inc is based in DE.
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