· Private foundation
Leslie J Raffel Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $302k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,983,745 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| PURDUE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $368,943 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIV | $250,000 |
| ALL STARS PROJECT | $201,922 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $100,412 |
| CHABAD OF PURDUE UNIV | $30,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| ALL STARS PROJECT | $2,321 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Leslie J Raffel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 3% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 14%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Purdue Research Foundation3× · 2023–2026 · $770k · revenue +39%- ASALL STARS PROJECT INC2× · 2025–2026 · $520k · revenue +58%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE4× · 2022–2026 · $206k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $205k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TBTEMPLE BETH ELone grant, 2021 · $6k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leslie J Raffel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leslie J Raffel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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