· Private foundation
Stephen & May C Leeman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC | $14,000 |
| LEGAL OUTREACH | $14,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK | $14,000 |
| BALLET TECH FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| AVENUES FOR JUSTICE | $14,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF NY | $14,000 |
| ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN | $14,000 |
| THE GO PROJECT | $14,000 |
| FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES | $14,000 |
| EXALT YOUTH | $14,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE USA | $1,603 |
| NORTH EAST COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $485k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FYFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $255k · revenue +43%
- ATASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN7× · 2018–2024 · $229k · revenue +61%
- BTBALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $176k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- BBROTHERSINCone grant, 2022 · $1k
- RHRED HOOK INITIATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +50%
- CFCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +90%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To ensure a high quality education for new york students who face barriers to academic success, focusing on students from low-income backgrounds.
Friends of the children - new york has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
Establish a unified voice for children and youth with emotional, behavioral, and social challenges. the organizational mission is to ensure that every family has access to needed information, support, and services.
Futures and options expands opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds and historically underrepresented communities, collaborating with employers to empower students to gain the skills and confidence needed to succeed in future…
Youth Justice Network (YJN)s mission is to break cycles of incarceration and build an equitable justice system by providing young people with individualized advocacy, mentorship, and opportunities to grow, thrive, and lead. (SEE SCHEDULE O)
Apex for youth delivers possibilities to underserved asian and immigrant youth from low-income families in nyc. apex recruits working professionals to volunteer and become positive role models who inspire youth to expand their horizons and…
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
New York State Youth Leadership Council, Inc. (NYSYLC or the Organization) works to empower immigrant youth through leadership development, grassroots organizing, educational advancement, and self-expression. NYSYLCs goal is to give…
Vision: a world where no child's life is torn apart by war.children in conflict works tirelessly to restore hope, safety and childhoods to children whose lives are affected by war.
Founded in 2012, young new yorkers' restorative art diversion programs allow young people to exit the criminal legal system, have their cases dismissed and sealed, and avoid a life-long criminal record. in addition, our graduate programs…
The purpose of the organization is to build an enriching educational setting for under-served brooklyn youth, using athletics as a vehicle to inspire them to fulfill their academic, physical, and personal potential. bkysc is driven by an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens Committee for Children of New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Children's Health Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LEGAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds EXALT YOUTH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ATLAS DIY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Preparing Leaders of Tomorrow ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
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.
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
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 Stephen & May C Leeman 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.
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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