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The Cathey and Joe Leitch Family Foundation at a glance

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The Cathey and Joe Leitch Family 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.

$870k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$870k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.1MInternational$220kFood & Nutrition$75kPhilanthropy$63kEnvironment$58kEducation$40kArts & Culture$20kHuman Services$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$870,474
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$870,474
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER: $10k → 7%MASS EYE AND EAR (DR SOLA RESEARCH FUND): $69k → 16%Shriners Hospitals for Children: $1k → 22%LA WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 14%PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $870k → 12%Mexico Beach Artificial Reef Association: $53k → 12%Rivertown Community Chruch: $23k → 18%INTERACT RALEIGH: $5k → 8%Feeding America: $50k → 14%OPERATION SMILE: $10k → 10%FRIENDS OF SULGRAVE MANOR: $10k → 15%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $10k → 7%MASS EYE AND EAR (DR SOLA RESEARCH FUND): $67k → 16%Shriners Hospitals for Children: $1k → 22%LA WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 14%wateraid america inc: $10k → 17%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $75k → 12%INTERACT RALEIGH: $1k → 8%FEEDING AMERICA: $25k → 14%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $10k → 7%THE WHARTON FUND: $15k → 22%LA WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 14%WATERAID AMERICA: $5k → 17%FIRST SCOTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 12%INTERACT: $1k → 8%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $10k → 7%THE WHARTON FUND: $10k → 22%WATERAID AMERICA: $5k → 17%INTERACT RALEIGH: $1k → 8%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $10k → 7%WHARTON FUND: $10k → 22%WATER AID: $5k → 17%THE WHARTON FUND: $10k → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $15k → 17%WHARTON FUND: $3k → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $15k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 16 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$1.5M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+67%

Still filing today

38%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthEducationScience & TechFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +98%
  • Feeding America
    2× · 2020–2021 · $75k · revenue +40%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • MB
    MEXICO BEACH ARTIFICIAL REEF ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue -42%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $23k
  • BA
    Brookline Arts Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +85%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
11
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
12
Rainforest Alliance Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mexico Beach Artificial Reef Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $945,474 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAMASS EYE AND EAR (DR SOLA RESEARCH FUND): $135,878 · OtherMASS EYE AND EAR (DR SOLA RESEARCH FUND)THE WHARTON FUND: $47,500 · Other+12 more: $186,500 · Other+12 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $95,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…Save The Children Federation Inc: $40,000 · InternationalSave The Ch…WATERAID AMERICA INC: $25,000 · InternationalWATERAID AM…OPERATION SMILE INC: $10,000 · InternationalOPERATION S…Feeding America: $75,000 · Food & NutritionMEXICO BEACH ARTIFICIAL REEF ASSOCIATION INC: $52,500 · EnvironmentWellesley College: $40,000 · EducationTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $7,500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 · HealthBrookline Arts Center: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue: $5,000 · Science & Tech
Other$1,315,352International$170,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Environment$52,500Education$40,000Health$14,500Arts & Culture$10,000Science & Tech$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEXICO BEACH ARTIFICIAL REEF ASSOCIATION INC: $52,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetWellesley College: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBrookline Arts Center: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds MEXICO BEACH ARTIFICIAL REEF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Brookline Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Cathey and Joe Leitch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cathey and Joe Leitch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Brookline Arts Center: 2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 27 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home