Does Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy 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 Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, Madison Community Foundation, The Evjue Foundation Inc.

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Wisconsin · Private foundation

Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 1
Grants FY2024: 2
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $1,858,683
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,858,683
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 38; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $19M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	1	$1.9M	0%
FY2023	2	$983k	50%
FY2022	1	$882k	100%
FY2021	38	$1.3M	24%
FY2020	34	$593k	94%
FY2018	7	$30k	100%
FY2017	1	$70	n/a

92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.5MArts & Culture$758kHuman Services$647kEnvironment$248kEducation$189kHousing & Shelter$116kYouth Development$35kHealth$35kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Prl Keystone Foundation Inc	$3,499,071	3	100%
Madison Children's Museum Inc	$270,000	2	8%
Madison Youth Arts Center Inc	$250,000	1	11%
Bt Farms Foundation Inc	$225,000	1	29%
University of Wisconsin Foundation	$131,000	2	0%
Bayview Foundation Inc	$110,000	2	2%
Sessions at McPike Park Inc	$25,000	2	4%
Reap Food Group Inc	$15,000	3	1%
Ceos of Tomorrow Inc	$15,000	2	3%
Wingra School Inc	$10,070	3	0%

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All grantees of Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Prl Keystone Foundation Inc	$3,499,071	3	100%
Madison Children's Museum Inc	$270,000	2	8%
Madison Youth Arts Center Inc	$250,000	1	11%
Bt Farms Foundation Inc	$225,000	1	29%
University of Wisconsin Foundation	$131,000	2	0%
Bayview Foundation Inc	$110,000	2	2%
Sessions at McPike Park Inc	$25,000	2	4%
Reap Food Group Inc	$15,000	3	1%
Ceos of Tomorrow Inc	$15,000	2	3%
Wingra School Inc	$10,070	3	0%
Clean Lakes Alliance Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Jewish Social Services of Madison Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Women in Focus Incorporated	$10,000	2	9%
Foundation for Black Women's Wellness Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Centro Hispano Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Mann Educational Opportunity Fund Inc	$10,000	2	n/a
Girls Rock Camp Madison	$10,000	2	8%
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Domestic Abuse Intervention Services Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Maydm Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Lussier Community Education Center Inc	$7,500	2	0%
Kavod	$7,500	2	0%
Nehemiah Corporation	$6,000	1	n/a
Urban League of Greater Madison Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Denver Homeless Out Loud	$5,850	2	n/a
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago	$5,000	1	0%
Ocean Conservancy	$5,000	1	0%
Milestone Democratic School Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Wisconsin Youth Company Inc	$5,000	2	0%
Alliance for the Great Lakes	$5,000	1	0%
Community Groundworks Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Today Not Tomorrow Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Reclaim	$4,000	1	n/a
Denver Indian Center Inc	$3,350	1	0%
La Raza Services Inc	$3,350	1	0%
Native American Community Clinic	$3,000	1	0%
Frogtown Garden	$3,000	1	2%
Climate Justice Alliance	$2,500	1	n/a
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Inc	$1,000	2	0%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($861k), not named here.

Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Madison Gas and Electric Foundation IncWI42.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Prl Keystone Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Green Bay Packers Foundation

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.

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About Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation

How much does Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation give?: Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,858,683 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (56%), Arts & Culture (12%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Prl Keystone Foundation Inc ($3.5M), Madison Children's Museum Inc ($270k), Madison Youth Arts Center Inc ($250k).
Does Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy 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 Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, Madison Community Foundation, The Evjue Foundation Inc.
Where is Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation based?: Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation is based in WI.