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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$3.5MArts & Culture$546kEnvironment$246kEducation$166kHuman Services$38kHealth$27kFood & Nutrition$15kReligion$10kOther$1.1M
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,858,683
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRL KEYSTONE FOUNDATION$1,858,683
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC: $3k → 11%RECLAIM: $4k → 14%OCEAN CONSERVANCY INC: $5k → 14%BT FARMS FOUNDATION: $225k → 10%ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $5k → 14%FROGTOWN GARDENS: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY GROUNDWORKS INC: $5k → 10%PRL KEYSTONE FOUNDATION: $1.9M → 10%PRL KEYSTONE FOUNDATION: $882k → 10%REAP FOOD GROUP INC: $5k → 10%PRL KEYSTONE FOUNDATION: $758k → 10%WINGRA SCHOOL INC: $70 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.0M · 30 repeat orgs$557k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
21

Total granted

$5.0M
$557k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+33%

Still filing today

70%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • PK
    PRL KEYSTONE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +111% · 100% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $131k · revenue +29%
  • BF
    BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $110k · revenue +265%

Funded once

  • MY
    MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +171%
  • BF
    BT FARMS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $225k · 29% of their budget
  • AA
    Art and Soul, Proud Theatre
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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2
Midwest Environmental Advocates Inc

Midwest environmental advocates is a nonprofit law center that combines the power of law with the resolve of communities facing environmental injustice to secure and protect the rights of all people to healthy water, land, and air.

Crime & Legal
3
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
4
Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy
5
Madison Development Corporation

Madison development corporation (mdc)'s mission is to help create jobs by providing gap financing to small businesses and to develop and finance quality, affordable workforce housing units in madison and the dane county area.

Community Improvement
6
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
7
Madison Art Gallery
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8
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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9
Groundwork Milwaukee Inc

Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…

Environment
10
Ywca Madison Inc

Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
11
United Way of Dane County Inc

Unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives.

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12
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centro Hispano Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prl Keystone Foundation Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%14%<5yr13%11%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr14%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%79%<5yr13%6%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%1%20–35yr15%7%35–55yr14%6%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 79% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/40
the rest of the field
13%
2,248/17,355

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 52 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRL KEYSTONE FOUNDATION INC — $3,499,071 · PhilanthropyPRL KEYSTONE FOUNDATION INC+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyGoodman, Irwin A and Robert D Community Center Inc. — $485,000 · OtherGoodman, Irwin A and …Wisconsin Historical Museum — $200,000 · OtherWisconsin Historical …Camp Chi, Jewish Community Center of Chicago — $120,000 · OtherCamp Chi, Jewish Comm…BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 · OtherBAYVIEW FOUNDATION IN…+24 more — $166,900 · Other+24 moreMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $270,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON CHI…MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON YOU…Sessions at McPike Park Inc — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureBT FARMS FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · Environment+3 more — $10,500 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $131,000 · EducationCEOS OF TOMORROW INC — $15,000 · EducationWINGRA SCHOOL INC — $10,070 · EducationWOMEN IN FOCUS INCORPORATED — $10,000 · EducationCENTRO HISPANO INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesKAVOD — $7,500 · Human ServicesLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesDENVER INDIAN CENTER INC — $3,350 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC — $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 · HealthRECLAIM — $4,000 · HealthNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $3,000 · Health
Philanthropy$3,504,071Other$1,081,900Arts & Culture$546,000Environment$245,500Education$166,070Human Services$38,350Health$27,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPRL KEYSTONE FOUNDATION INC — $3,499,071 over 3y, 100% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $270,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetMADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBT FARMS FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $131,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSessions at McPike Park Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCEOS OF TOMORROW INC — $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetREAP FOOD GROUP INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWINGRA SCHOOL INC — $10,070 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYDM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN IN FOCUS INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetGIRLS ROCK CAMP MADISON — $10,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES OF MADISON INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKAVOD — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY GROUNDWORKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA RAZA SERVICES INC — $3,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER INDIAN CENTER INC — $3,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFROGTOWN GARDEN — $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Madison Gas and Elect…Madison Community Fou…The Evjue Foundation …Prl Keystone Foundati…Alliant Energy Founda…Trustage Foundation I…United Way of Dane Co…Endres Manufacturing …Sub-Zero Group Founda…The Roots and Wings F…Otto Bremer TrustGreen Bay Packers Fou…
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

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 Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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