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Richard T Liebhaber and Kirsten E Liebhaber Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Richard T Liebhaber and Kirsten E Liebhaber Family Foundation Inc

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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$744kArts & Culture$161kHealth$76kAnimals$50kEducation$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS: $1k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $500 → 14%BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS: $245k → 7%INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $250 → 6%COSMOS CLUB HISTORICAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS: $239k → 7%INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $250 → 6%COSMOS CLUB HISTORICAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS: $77k → 7%INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDEN: $66k → 7%INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDEN: $58k → 7%INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS: $42k → 7%INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS: $5k → 7%BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS: $5k → 7%BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS: $5k → 7%VAIL CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$980k · 6 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$980k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
-7%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BF
    Betty Ford Alpine Gardens
    9× · 2017–2025 · $744k · revenue +97%
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +58%
  • IH
    INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $41k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF VAIL MOUNTAIN RESCUE
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -7%
  • VC
    VAIL CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
4
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
5
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
6
The Alexandria Hospital Foundation

Fundraising to support inova alexandria hospital, an acute care tax exempt hospital.

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7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
Uvmc Foundation

Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Betty Ford Alpine Gardens: $743,650 · EnvironmentBetty Ford Alpine Gardens+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $150,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CE…COSMOS CLUB HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOSMOS CLUB HISTO…INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $41,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF VAIL MOUNTAIN RESCUE: $50,000 · OtherVAIL CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherFriends of Mountain Rescue Inc: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $500 · Education
Environment$744,150Arts & Culture$160,000Health$76,000Other$56,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000Education$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBetty Ford Alpine Gardens: $743,650 over 9y, 13% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Mountain Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard T Liebhaber and Kirsten E Liebhaber Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard T Liebhaber and Kirsten E Liebhaber Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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