· Private foundation
Paul and Lynn Leight Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of PAUL AND LYNN LEIGHT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $8.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000,000 |
| THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER PROCESSING | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES - MIAMI CHAPTER | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH - MIAMI | $10,000 |
| CHABAD AT HAMILTON | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN ZIONIST MOVEMENT | $5,000 |
| JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE | $5,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE | $5,000 |
| SEEDS OF PEACE | $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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 Moishe House and the most unlike its peers is Project New Born 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 40 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 JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NEW BORN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC ↗
- Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds American Zionist Movement Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds American Forests ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ZO ARTZEINU INC DBA THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP MOVEMENT/MANHIGUT YEHU ↗
- Who funds LEV LALEV INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
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.
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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 Paul and Lynn Leight Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
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.