Connecticut · Private foundation
Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust
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.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $590k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 10 | $2.1M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $2.4M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $1.4M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $1.6M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $1.1M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $1.4M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $944k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $945k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butler University | $1,600,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc | $1,027,750 | 8 | 1% |
| Bucknell University | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Ocean Community United Theatre Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Canterbury School Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Westerly Hospital Foundation Inc | $115,000 | 7 | 3% |
| New York Common Pantry | $115,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Connecticut Children's Medical Center | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butler University | $1,600,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc | $1,027,750 | 8 | 1% |
| Bucknell University | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Ocean Community United Theatre Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Canterbury School Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Westerly Hospital Foundation Inc | $115,000 | 7 | 3% |
| New York Common Pantry | $115,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Connecticut Children's Medical Center | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Newtown Scholarship Association Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Strike 3 Foundation | $55,000 | 4 | 50% |
| Fairfield University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catherine Violet Hubbard Foundation Inc | $25,800 | 1 | 5% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Zeta Charter Schools Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust
- How much does Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust give?
- Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust reported 10 grants totaling $2,100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (20%).
- Who are Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Butler University ($1.6M), Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc ($1.0M), Bucknell University ($500k).
- Does Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust 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 Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust based?
- Robert and Jill Leblanc Charitable Trust is based in CT.
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