Illinois · 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.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $387k
- 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 Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 18 | $40k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $34k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $27k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $33k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $38k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $11k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $20k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flagg Creek Heritage Society | $19,930 | 1 | n/a |
| Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra Inc | $13,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Special Equestrians Inc | $13,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Hope Ignites Chicago | $11,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Waterleaf Women's Center Inc | $10,710 | 1 | 1% |
| The Center for Enriched Living Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Exploit No More Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| South West Florida Horse Rescue Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($71k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation
- How much does Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation give?
- Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $39,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Health (20%), Education (16%).
- Who are Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Flagg Creek Heritage Society ($20k), Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra Inc ($14k), Special Equestrians Inc ($14k).
- Does Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation 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 Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation.
- Where is Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation based?
- Roger and Paula Leyden Foundation is based in IL.
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