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Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$157k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$14,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$14,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 17
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$157k8%
FY202313$167k0%
FY202214$168k7%
FY202114$242k7%
FY202016$511k13%
FY201917$422k24%
FY201816$159kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$591kYouth Development$437kEducation$249kHuman Services$237kArts & Culture$176kHealth$136kCivil Rights$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fresh Youth Initiatives Inc$255,00073%
Association to Benefit Children$229,00071%
Legal Outreach Inc$179,90074%
Ballet Tech Foundation Inc$175,60071%
Fiver Children's Foundation Inc$159,00074%
The Go Project Inc$154,00073%
Avenues for Justice Inc$139,00073%
Exalt Youth$138,30072%
Children of Promise NYC$130,00071%
Breakthrough New York Inc$94,00071%
Atlas Diy Corporation$20,00021%
Northeast Community Center Inc$7,00070%
Equal Justice USA Inc$1,60310%
The Children's Health Fund$1,50030%
Red Hook Initiative$1,00010%
Citizens Committee for Children of New York Inc$75020%
Center for Community Alternatives Inc$50010%
American Friends Service Committee$5001n/a
Hour Children Inc$50010%
Preparing Leaders of Tomorrow$5001n/a
New York Immigration Coalition Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($137k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFresh Youth Initiatives Inc: $255,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetAssociation to Benefit Children: $229,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLegal Outreach Inc: $179,900 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetBallet Tech Foundation Inc: $175,600 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetFiver Children's Foundation Inc: $159,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetThe Go Project Inc: $154,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetAvenues for Justice Inc: $139,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetExalt Youth: $138,300 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetChildren of Promise NYC: $130,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetBreakthrough New York Inc: $94,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAtlas Diy Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNortheast Community Center Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEqual Justice USA Inc: $1,603 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRed Hook Initiative: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens Committee for Children of New York Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Community Alternatives Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHour Children Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Immigration Coalition Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 19.

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.

Pinkerton FoundationNY17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pinkerton Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rose M Badgeley Charitable Trust 10-214890 · The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The New York Bar Foundation · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc

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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How do I get to Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stephen & May C Leeman 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.

About Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation

How much does Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation give?
Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $156,603 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (32%), Youth Development (24%), Education (14%).
Who are Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Fresh Youth Initiatives Inc ($255k), Association to Benefit Children ($229k), Legal Outreach Inc ($180k).
Does Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pinkerton Foundation, Brooklyn Community Foundation, Robin Hood Foundation.
Where is Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation based?
Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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