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Marie Keese Lelash Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$231k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$163kFood & Nutrition$139kArts & Culture$101kHealth$100kYouth Development$53kEducation$52kHousing & Shelter$39kHuman Services$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
826 LA$5,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$5,000
BENEVITY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $9k → 14%CHILDHELP: $3k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $600 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$471k · 23 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
15

Total granted

$471k
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+22%

Still filing today

83%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +29%
  • EI
    EDESIA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +22%
  • SU
    STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK
    3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • EN
    EDESIA NUTRITION
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • YM
    YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -10%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ORANGUTAN & CHIMPANZEE CONSERVATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
2
Alliance for Safety and Justice

Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…

Crime & Legal
3
Crisis Text Line Inc

By leveraging innovative technology and research, we are shaping mental health policy and systems to create a world where everyone has access to the support they need anytime, anywhere.

Health
4
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
5
Emanate Health

Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.

Health
6
The Health Trust

The mission is to build health equity in silicon valley.

Health
7
Sacramento Children's Home

At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.

Human Services
8
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
9
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
10
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
11
Emanate Health Hospice

Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.

Human Services
12
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern California Center for Nonprofit Management; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER: $45,000 · OtherCAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTEREDESIA NUTRITION: $30,000 · OtherEDESIA NUTRITIONEDESIA: $25,000 · OtherEDESIAYOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE: $23,000 · OtherYOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUEHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SW FLORIDA: $20,000 · OtherHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SW FLORIDATHE CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $20,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR GREAT APESLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $20,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INCCENTER THEATER GROUP: $18,000 · OtherHASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $15,000 · OtherTHE PROSPECTOR FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE PROSPECTOR FOUNDATION INC+21 more: $130,500 · Other+21 moreCAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION: $45,000 · AnimalsCAPE CORAL AN…Valley Humane SocietyInc: $37,500 · AnimalsValley Humane…Cape Coral Wildlife Trust Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsCape Coral Wi…EDESIA INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionEDESIA INCECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $24,000 · Food & NutritionECUMENICAL H…SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $17,500 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVE…STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSTEP UP WOM…ADAMS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $30,000 · Arts & CultureADAMS COUNT…CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $13,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEA…DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthDIABETES …BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $17,500 · HealthBLOOD CAN…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $7,500 · HealthSEMPER FI…THE JED FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthJUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER: $16,500 · Education826LA: $15,000 · EducationSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $19,000 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INC: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $600 · Human Services
Other$366,500Animals$87,500Food & Nutrition$76,500Arts & Culture$73,000Health$57,500Education$31,500Human Services$22,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION: $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetValley Humane SocietyInc: $37,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEDESIA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetADAMS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE: $23,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PROSPECTOR FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget826LA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCape Coral Wildlife Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne's Family Services: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Valley Humane SocietyInc ↗
  • Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
  • Who funds STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ADAMS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE PROSPECTOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT ↗
  • Who funds Cape Coral Wildlife Trust Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way WorldwideCalifornia Community …Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…The Blackbaud Giving …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…
United Way WorldwideVA13× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marie Keese Lelash Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marie Keese Lelash Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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