· Private foundation
Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz- Lew Leibowitz Legacy 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ARK | $160,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $72,500 |
| ACLU | $70,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $52,500 |
| NRDC | $50,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $50,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $40,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $40,000 |
| NIGHT MINISTRY | $35,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER | $35,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING | $30,000 |
| JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS | $30,000 |
| ALL CHICAGO | $30,000 |
| CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $25,000 |
| OPENLANDS | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2020–2025 · $243k · revenue +63%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY6× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +17%
Feeding America6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +40%
Funded once
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Cafha provides training and technical assistance to a wide array of stakeholders combating housing discrimination and promoting equitable place-based opportunity through education, advocacy, and collaborative action.
The hunger project is working to create a world without hunger through women-centered, holistic development strategies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. in 2025, it reached nearly 12.7 million people in over 10,000…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY ↗
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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz- Lew Leibowitz Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz- Lew Leibowitz Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
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