Massachusetts · Public charity
Local Enterprise Assistance Fund
Leaf's mission is to promote human and economic development by providing financing and development assistance to cooperatives and social purpose ventures that create and retain jobs for low-income people.
- $319k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,492
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 5
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $34M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Local Enterprise Assistance Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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 | 15 | $294k | 93% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $79k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $258k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $56k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josiah a Spaulding Education Fund | $22,000 | 1 | 42% |
| Band of Brothers Nam Knights of America Central Mass Chapter Inc | $21,691 | 1 | n/a |
| Building Audacity | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Coastal Foodshed | $13,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mill City Grows Inc | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($602k), not named here.
About Local Enterprise Assistance Fund
- How much does Local Enterprise Assistance Fund give?
- Local Enterprise Assistance Fund reported 16 grants totaling $318,577 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Local Enterprise Assistance Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (33%), Human Services (21%), Public Benefit (9%).
- Who are Local Enterprise Assistance Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Josiah a Spaulding Education Fund ($22k), Band of Brothers Nam Knights of America Central Mass Chapter Inc ($22k), Building Audacity ($15k).
- Does Local Enterprise Assistance Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Local Enterprise Assistance Fund based?
- Local Enterprise Assistance Fund is based in MA.
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