· Private foundation
Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation
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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE | $6,000 |
| GULF COAST SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| NORTH CATHOLIC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE | $2,000 |
| KIDS INC | $2,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $2,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS SW FLORIDA | $1,000 |
| GLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| EVANSTON WILMETTE GOLF COURSE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| UNCOMMON FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- GCGULF COAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +25%
- SESPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +15%
- HIHOPE IGNITES CHICAGO4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- FCFLAGG CREEK HERITAGE SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $20k
- WWWaterleaf Women's Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +55%
Exploit No More Incone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -42%
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 organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Suncoast hospice institute is now inactive.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired and the most unlike its peers is The Hilgos 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 41 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 GULF COAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Waterleaf Women's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Exploit No More Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WEST FLORIDA HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds GLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE OF SW FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON WILMETTE GOLF COURSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI Chicago ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS SW FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds The Hilgos Foundation ↗
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: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation · The United Way of Lee County Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Roger and Paula Leyden 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Special Equestrians Inc — 2% 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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