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The Dorothea Lleonhardt Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$887k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.5MArts & Culture$4.2MEnvironment$1.7MCrime & Legal$222kAnimals$160kHealth$147kInternational$143kCivil Rights$104kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $123k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $390k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE CHINATI FOUNDATION$10,000
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC$10,000
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH$10,000
THE MAR THOMA MISSION BOARD$10,000
THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY$10,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CITY OF ASYLUM: $20k → 11%THE KITCHEN INC: $2k → 15%ST GEORGE'S CENTER: $15k → 11%LENA POPE HOME INC: $10k → 11%ST GEORGE'S CENTER: $15k → 11%THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 17%RxART: $3k → 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

ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 41 repeat orgs$560k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
66

Total granted

$11M
$476k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+20%

Still filing today

71%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +161%
  • BG
    BERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
  • TM
    TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART
    7× · 2019–2025 · $686k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF AMAZING GRACE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • NU
    NYS UNIFIED COURT SYSTEM
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +127%
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
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
3
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
4
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
6
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
8
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
9
Museum of American Finance

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…

—
10
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
11
The Frick Collection

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.

—
12
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toledo Museum of Art; 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.
04the grantee network

87 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. 87 of the 120 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/87
Grantees still filing
54/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROANOKE COLLEGE: $4,284,226 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGE+12 more: $294,181 · Education+12 moreWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $2,755,266 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $685,558 · Arts & CultureTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ARTTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $138,000 · Arts & Culture+26 more: $296,500 · Arts & Culture+26 moreBERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,002,000 · EnvironmentBERKSHIRE GARD…PARA LA NATURALEZA INC: $388,000 · EnvironmentPARA LA NATURA…+2 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentECOTRUST: $253,500 · OtherECOTRUSTFORT WORTH ZOO: $160,000 · OtherFORT WORTH…HELP USA: $100,000 · OtherHELP USAFEERICK CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE OF FORDHAM SCHOOL OF LAW: $88,000 · OtherFEERICK CE…CHURCH OF AMAZING GRACE INC: $50,000 · Other+47 more: $414,002 · Other+47 moreAGAPE CLINIC: $77,500 · HealthThe Agape Always Foundation: $25,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · HealthGLUT1 Deficiency Foundation Inc: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $7,000 · HealthTHE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS INC: $69,500 · Crime & LegalTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $20,000 · Crime & LegalDALLAS BAR FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Crime & LegalDallas Bar Association Community Service Fund: $5,500 · Crime & LegalTHE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Crime & LegalVirginia Law Foundation: $5,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $3,500 · Crime & LegalSt Georges Center Inc dba St George Table: $30,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF ASYLUM: $20,000 · Human ServicesLENA POPE HOME INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF VINH SON ORPHANAGE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesRX ART INC: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $3,000 · Human Services
Education$4,578,407Arts & Culture$3,875,324Environment$1,405,000Other$1,065,502Health$127,000Crime & Legal$123,500Human Services$70,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $4,284,226 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $2,755,266 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,002,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $685,558 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetPARA LA NATURALEZA INC: $388,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetECOTRUST: $253,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $138,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $133,640 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAGAPE CLINIC: $77,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $77,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $70,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS INC: $69,500 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetTexas Access to Justice Foundation: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $26,541 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Agape Always Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM: $23,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetY SERVICE CLUBS INTERNATIONAL US AREA: $20,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCITY OF ASYLUM: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS SPACE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CONTEMPORARY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS BAR FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $14,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCamp Haven Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOXBOW SCHOOL: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew Wave Artist Residency Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLENA POPE HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASHTABULA ARTS CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELL AWARE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHISHOLM TRAIL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Bar Association Community Service Fund: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANOPY CANOPY CANOPY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Agape Always Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Y SERVICE CLUBS INTERNATIONAL US AREA ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF ASYLUM ↗
  • Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART ↗
  • Who funds THE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS CONTEMPORARY ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Camp Haven 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Communities Foundatio…May and Samuel Rudin …United Way Miami IncArison Arts FoundationThe Horace W Goldsmit…Terra Foundation for …The Goldman Sachs Cha…Katten Muchin Rosenma…The Ford FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…Via Art Fund IncMilton and Sally Aver…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX22.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dorothea Lleonhardt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dorothea Lleonhardt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to The Dorothea Lleonhardt Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Dorothea Lleonhardt Foundation Inc 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.

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 120 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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