· Private foundation
Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $526k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER | $50,000 |
| FOTOFEST INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| NYC SALT | $30,000 |
| OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS-DBA BLUE SKY GALLERY | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK | $25,000 |
| UNITED PHOTO INDUSTRIES | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY | $25,000 |
| EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION INC | $25,000 |
| WILLIAM EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND CO INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY | $25,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE | $20,000 |
| EN FOCO INC | $15,000 |
| PENUMBRA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VISUAL STUDIES WORKSHOP | $15,000 |
| THE VII FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of your 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TBTHE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $493k · revenue +84%
- NSNYC SALT INC8× · 2018–2025 · $220k · revenue +48%
- CFCENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK8× · 2017–2025 · $201k · revenue +209%
Funded once
- VCVIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -55%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $30k
- TJTHE JEWISH MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
SF Camerawork provokes discovery, experimentation, and exchange through exhibitions and experiences for all who value new ideas in photography.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Print Center and the most unlike its peers is Penumbra Foundation. 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 114 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 THE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Fotofest Inc ↗
- Who funds NYC SALT INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Center for Photography Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK ↗
- Who funds United Photo Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISUAL STUDIES WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds EN FOCO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENUMBRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PROOF MEDIA FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIONS PRESERVATION PROJECT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHINE HERRICK PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Case Art Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PHOTO LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
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 Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 4YOUTH Productions Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc — 5% of income from government
- Neskowin Coast Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc — 1% 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.
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