· Private foundation
The Dorothea Lleonhardt Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $390k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROANOKE COLLEGE | $886,960 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $257,614 |
| TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART | $180,000 |
| PARA LA NATURALEZA INC | $75,000 |
| BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN | $75,000 |
| FORT WORTH ZOO | $60,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC | $23,000 |
| THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $15,000 |
| DALLAS CONTEMPORARY | $10,000 |
| MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH | $10,000 |
| THE CHINATI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| THE MAR THOMA MISSION BOARD | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +161%
- BGBERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
- TMTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2019–2025 · $686k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF AMAZING GRACE INCone grant, 2018 · $50k
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +127%- RTRIVERSIDE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2017 · $25k
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 collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toledo Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Para La Naturaleza Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
87 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. 87 of the 120 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 ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PARA LA NATURALEZA INC ↗
- Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Access to Justice Foundation ↗
- Who funds St Georges Center Inc dba St George Table ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds The Agape Always Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Y SERVICE CLUBS INTERNATIONAL US AREA ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CITY OF ASYLUM ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds THE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Haven 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Via Art Fund Inc · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
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 The Dorothea Lleonhardt Foundation Inc 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.
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
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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