· Private foundation
Lisa & Michael Leffell Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $647k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $945k
- $250k+1 grant · $262k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $262,240 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $110,000 |
| JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA | $105,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| SINAI TEMPLE | $75,000 |
| STEVEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE | $75,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER | $55,000 |
| MOISHE HOUSE | $50,000 |
| ZIONESS MOVEMENT | $40,000 |
| CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION | $40,000 |
| NATIONAL BLACK EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| FUENTE LATINA | $40,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +53% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +39%
- JIJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA7× · 2017–2024 · $747k · revenue +62%
- FFFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $535k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- BIBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +90%
- EJEMORY JEWISH STUDENT CENTER INC - CHABAD AT EMORYone grant, 2022 · $100k
- BBOUNDLESSone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network and the most unlike its peers is Heart of a Nation. 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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 136 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds REUT USA ↗
- Who funds ZIONESS MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds BOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fuente Latina Inc ↗
- Who funds National Black Empowerment Council Inc ↗
- Who funds SIXPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A WIDER BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds JLENS ↗
- Who funds STARDUST JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Heart of A Nation ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER JEWISH COUNCIL 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fjc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation · Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trus · Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
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 Lisa & Michael Leffell 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.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% 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.