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Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
84
Grants FY2025
100
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
99 to 141
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
18
Total assets, FY2025
$26M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsFood & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving83$3.0M29%
FY2024100$2.8M18%
FY2023129$1.6M22%
FY2022124$2.0M23%
FY2021117$1.8M15%
FY2020105$1.3M16%
FY201999$1.3M9%
FY2018141$2.0M9%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$8.1MAnimals$3.1MFood & Nutrition$1.0MHealth$839kHuman Services$713kScience & Tech$502kEducation$465kYouth Development$376kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 169 grantees
All grantees of Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$787,00090%
Keweenaw Community Forest Company$598,000834%
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc$595,000333%
Keweenaw Land Trust Inc$522,000917%
Friends of Sax-Zim Bog$477,000936%
Earthjustice$436,00080%
Humane Farming Association$421,00092%
Payette Land Trust Inc$400,567320%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$395,00080%
Glen Canyon Institute$331,000820%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$320,00070%
El Rio Foundation Inc$216,00082%
Western Watersheds Projects Inc$195,50094%
Snowdon Wildlife Sanctuary$179,000540%
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse$172,50090%
Community Food Bank Inc$168,00050%
Family Care Foundation$167,0003n/a
Wildearth Guardians$159,00091%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$156,00080%
Saluda Community Land Trust Inc$155,00027%
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy$154,00081%
Greenpeace Inc$147,50070%
Save the Scenic Santa Ritas$135,000762%
Conserving Carolina$135,00031%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation$130,00040%
Planned Parenthood Arizona Inc$129,00080%
Pets for the Elderly Foundation$125,000817%
Idaho Youth Ranch Inc$125,00060%
Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection$125,00087%
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation$120,00030%
Can Do Canines$116,00091%
30-Days Foundation$114,000921%
Earthworks$111,00071%
Unique Places to Save$108,00032%
The Children's Chance Inc$101,000526%
Chimp Haven Inc$100,00090%
Humane World for Animals Inc$95,00040%
Mainspring Conservation Trust Inc$95,00031%
Friends of Cave Creek Canyon$94,500820%
Fresh Energy$92,00081%
The Wilderness Land Trust$90,00023%
Bountifield International$85,00026%
Blue Ridge Conservancy$80,00030%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$80,00030%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$77,00080%
Catch Inc$73,00091%
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy$70,00030%
The Child Language Center Inc$68,00083%
Live Theatre Workshop$65,50082%
Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona Inc$62,50081%
American Bird Conservancy$60,00050%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$60,00030%
Norwegian Lutheran Church Historical Society$57,0007n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson Inc$56,00080%
Painesdale Mine & Shaft Inc$55,0009n/a
Advocates for the West Inc$55,00031%
Nepal Social Services Fund Inc$54,000633%
The Pisgah Conservancy$50,00031%
Animal Rescue League of Iowa Inc$50,00040%
Population Connection$50,00020%
Grandparents as Parents Inc$49,00063%
Center for Science in the Public Interest$49,00080%
Keweenaw County Historical Society$49,00084%
Ruff Start Rescue Inc$48,00051%
Harmony and Hope Horse Haven Inc$47,00085%
Idahoans United for Women and Families$45,00025%
Friends of the Mississippi River$45,00011%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sw Id Inc$42,00061%
Rainforest Alliance Inc$40,00030%
Animal Outlook Inc$40,00012%
Izaak Walton League of America Inc$39,00077%
The Food Trust$37,50070%
The Sonoran Institute Inc$37,50070%
Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc$35,00041%
Chiricahua Land Conservancy$35,00034%
Minnesota Land Trust$35,00060%
Cascade Food Pantry$35,000333%
Malpai Borderlands Group Inc$34,50072%
Tlc Horse Mule & Donkey Rescue Inc$34,000615%
Humane Society of Southern Arizona$34,00070%
Northern Jaguar Project$33,00072%
Alliance for Sustainability$32,00077%
Greyhound Rescue of Idaho$32,0008n/a
Freeborn County Humane Society$32,000314%
Aquability Inc$31,00066%
Spay Neuter Idaho Pets Inc$30,00061%
Meals From the Heartland Inc$30,00030%
West Valley Humane Society Inc$30,00060%
Sageland Collaborative$30,00032%
Razom Inc$30,00020%
Shepherds Home Inc$30,00037%
Katie's Krops$28,00039%
Friends of Casco Bay$26,00031%
St Luke's McCall Foundation$25,0001n/a
Real People Media Inc$25,00046%
My Generation Corporation$25,0002n/a
Vision Loss Resources Inc$24,00050%
Franklin Center$23,00030%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Arizona Incorporated$23,00071%
The Copper Range Historical Society$22,0009n/a
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation$22,00020%
Galapagos Conservancy Inc$22,00010%
Patagonia Area Resource Alliance$21,00046%
Portal Rescue Inc$21,000210%
Open Space Institute Inc$20,0001n/a
Swedetown Trails Club$20,00018%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$20,00010%
Friends of Dupont Forest$20,00026%
Appalachian Trail Conservancy$20,00020%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$20,00030%
Population Media Center Inc$20,00030%
Planet Water Foundation$20,00011%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$19,00050%
National Stuttering Association$18,00032%
Native Seedssouthwestern Endangered$17,50021%
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center$17,00040%
Family Planning Association of Maine Inc$16,00020%
Chiricahua Regional Council Incorporated$15,0003n/a
Calumet Art Center$15,000319%
Minneapolis Recreation Development Inc Love One Another$15,00013%
A Mothers Love Initiative$15,00031%
Truthout$15,00030%
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness$15,00011%
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence$15,00030%
Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly Upper Michigan Chapter$14,00031%
Sky Island Alliance$13,00030%
Friends of the Myrtle Kraft-Portal Library$13,0003n/a
Wild Arizona$13,00030%
River Network$13,00030%
Rethos F/K/A Preservation Alliance of Minnesota$12,00021%
Defenders of Wildlife$12,00020%
Society For Companion Animals$12,0002n/a
Veteran Resilience Project Inc$12,00013%
Merryspring Inc$10,0002n/a
International Medical Corps$10,00010%
The Calumet Theatre Company$10,00015%
Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education Inc$10,00020%
American Veterinary Medical Foundation$10,0001n/a
Tedford Housing$10,00020%
Onegeneration$10,00020%
North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation$10,00010%
Davidson Lands Conservancy Inc$10,00010%
American Prairie Foundation$10,00010%
Coalition for Rainforest Nations Secretariat$10,00010%
Almost Home Dog Rescue NC$10,00015%
Three Rivers Land Trust Inc$10,00010%
Portland Children's Museum$10,00020%
Friends of Panthertown Inc$10,00015%
Meals on Wheels of Brevard Inc$10,00015%
Upstate Forever$10,00010%
350org$10,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$10,00010%
Animal Welfare Institute$10,00020%
Appalachian Black Bear Rehabilitation and Release Center Inc$10,00011%
Catawba Lands Conservancy$10,00010%
Heritage Radio Society Inc$8,0002n/a
Michigan Nature Association$6,00010%
Mission Animal Hospital$5,00010%
White Awake$5,00012%
Conservation Minnesota$5,00010%
Cornerstone$5,00013%
Gamers Outreach Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Nmdp Foundation$5,00010%
Copper Country Bird Club$5,0001n/a
Paragon Service Dogs$5,00011%
True & Faithful Pet Rescue Mission Inc$4,50011%
Houghton County Historical Society$4,00016%
National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation$4,00014%
City of West Des Moines$2,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 127 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 153 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $787,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetKeweenaw Community Forest Company: $598,000 over 8y, 34% of budgetHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc: $595,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetKeweenaw Land Trust Inc: $522,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetFriends of Sax-Zim Bog: $477,000 over 9y, 36% of budgetEarthjustice: $436,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Farming Association: $421,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetPayette Land Trust Inc: $400,567 over 3y, 20% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $395,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGlen Canyon Institute: $331,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $320,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEl Rio Foundation Inc: $216,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetWestern Watersheds Projects Inc: $195,500 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetSnowdon Wildlife Sanctuary: $179,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetIdaho Foodbank Warehouse: $172,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $168,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWildearth Guardians: $159,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $156,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSaluda Community Land Trust Inc: $155,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetMinnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy: $154,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGreenpeace Inc: $147,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSave the Scenic Santa Ritas: $135,000 over 7y, 62% of budgetConserving Carolina: $135,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Arizona Inc: $129,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPets for the Elderly Foundation: $125,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetIdaho Youth Ranch Inc: $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition for Sonoran Desert Protection: $125,000 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCan Do Canines: $116,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budget30-Days Foundation: $114,000 over 9y, 21% of budgetEarthworks: $111,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetUnique Places to Save: $108,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe Children's Chance Inc: $101,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetChimp Haven Inc: $100,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMainspring Conservation Trust Inc: $95,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of Cave Creek Canyon: $94,500 over 8y, 20% of budgetFresh Energy: $92,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetThe Wilderness Land Trust: $90,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBountifield International: $85,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBlue Ridge Conservancy: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $77,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCatch Inc: $73,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Child Language Center Inc: $68,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetLive Theatre Workshop: $65,500 over 8y, 2.4% 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 153.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ35× affinity17 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Nature Conservancy · The Minneapolis Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Longview Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Conservation Trust for North Carolina · The McKnight Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · EcoTrust · Pohlad Family 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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How do I get to Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Steven C Leuthold Family 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 Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation

How much does Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation give?
Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation reported 84 grants totaling $2,963,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 99 and 141 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (45%), Animals (18%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
Who are Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center for Biological Diversity Inc ($787k), Keweenaw Community Forest Company ($598k), Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ($595k).
Does Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, The Nature Conservancy, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation based?
Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation is based in NC.

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 297 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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