New York · Private foundation
Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $693k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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 | 52 | $673k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $507k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $567k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $503k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $525k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $451k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $532k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $510k | 70% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bronx Documentary Center | $493,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Fotofest Inc | $230,000 | 7 | 3% |
| NYC Salt Inc | $220,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Houston Center for Photography Inc | $209,852 | 7 | 8% |
| Center for Photography at Woodstock | $201,000 | 8 | 10% |
| United Photo Industries Inc | $168,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Eddie Adams Workshop Organization Inc | $155,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Visual Studies Workshop Inc | $103,000 | 6 | 7% |
| En Foco Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 9% |
| National Museum of Mexican Art Fka Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum | $84,700 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Joy of Giving Something Inc · Hillman Family Foundations · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The New York Community Trust · Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation · The Murthynayak Foundation Inc · Henry Nias Foundation Inc · The Honickman Foundation · Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation with peer funders
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About Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation
- How much does Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation give?
- Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $692,570 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (88%), Youth Development (5%), Civil Rights (2%).
- Who are Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Bronx Documentary Center ($493k), Fotofest Inc ($230k), NYC Salt Inc ($220k).
- Does Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Joy of Giving Something Inc, Hillman Family Foundations, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc.
- Where is Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation based?
- Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation is based in NY.
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