· Private foundation
Matt Leinart Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHOC FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $11,500 |
| COSTA MESA POP WARNER | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MDMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE2× · 2017–2018 · $9k
- CMCOSTA MESA POP WARNER4× · 2017–2020 · $8k
- SASANTA ANA POP WARNER2× · 2017–2019 · $4k
Funded once
- BPBE PERFECT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -65%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +44%
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +140%
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.
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.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.
To generate philanthropic support for the united states olympic and paralympic committee (usopc). the usopc's mission is: empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
Madison health's vision is to provide exceptional healthcare in a respectful, compassionate, and healing environment.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 27 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 Matt Leinart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matt Leinart Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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