· Private foundation
Marie Keese Lelash Foundation 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER | $30,000 |
| VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| EDESIA | $25,000 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SW FLORIDA | $20,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR GREAT APES | $20,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LEE & HORRY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK | $10,000 |
| CENTER THEATER GROUP | $10,000 |
| PROSPECTOR THEATER | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $8,500 |
| SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $8,500 |
| ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM | $8,000 |
| BENEVITY | $5,000 |
| 826 LA | $5,000 |
| HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- CCCAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +29%
- EIEDESIA INC2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +22%
- ACADAMS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- ENEDESIA NUTRITIONone grant, 2024 · $30k
- YMYOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUEone grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -10%
- CFCENTER FOR ORANGUTAN & CHIMPANZEE CONSERVATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern California Center for Nonprofit Management and the most unlike its peers is Cape Coral Wildlife Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 49 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 CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Valley Humane SocietyInc ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROSPECTOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds 826LA ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds Cape Coral Wildlife Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT ↗
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: United Way Worldwide · California Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Marie Keese Lelash Foundation Inc 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.
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.