Illinois · Private foundation
Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation
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.
- $14k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 49
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $61k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 48 | $13k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $26k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $41k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $23k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $19k | 82% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $56k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Church of Lake Bluff | $17,340 | 5 | n/a |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $5,800 | 6 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Earth | $4,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Wilderness Society | $4,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Beloit College | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $1,750 | 5 | 0% |
| The International Dark-Sky Association Inc | $1,100 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($110k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation
- How much does Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation give?
- Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $14,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Science & Tech (21%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Union Church of Lake Bluff ($17k), Sierra Club Foundation ($11k), Northern Illinois Food Bank ($6k).
- Does Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, AbbVie Foundation, Ibm International Foundation.
- Where is Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation based?
- Nels and Liz Leutwiler Foundation is based in IL.
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