· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOATHOUSE BISTRO LLC | $25,000 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VICENTE'S NEW BEDFORD LLC | $25,000 |
| MERENGUE RESTAURANT AND CATERING | $22,527 |
| RINCON LIMENO REVERE INC | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,500 |
| MICHAEL AGRICOLA LLC | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,492 |
| ELLEN WILSON DBA FREE RANGERS FARM | $22,000 |
| DIEUDONNE LEAN DBA DEE'S DELUX CARIBBEAN | $21,700 |
| DIEGO PRECIADO - PRECIADO BROTHERS (NAME OF RESTAURANT) | $21,691 |
| GONCALVES GROUP LLC | $20,567 |
| MOONLIGHTROSE | $12,500 |
| CHATHAM HARVESTERS COOPERATIVE INC | $12,500 |
| MILL CITY GROWS INC | $12,000 |
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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% 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
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 29 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Local Enterprise Assistance Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Local Enterprise Assistance Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Coastal Foodshed: 66% of income from government
- Building Audacity: 24% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc: 7% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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