California · Private foundation
The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $708k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2026
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 49
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 13
- Total assets, FY2026
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 4% of the organizations The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 43 | $693k | 7% |
| FY2025 | 46 | $485k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $653k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $515k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $343k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $491k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $537k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $457k | 11% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macalester College | $665,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pacific School of Religion | $528,750 | 9 | 3% |
| Foothills Church | $512,300 | 9 | n/a |
| Santa Maria Urban Ministry | $275,000 | 10 | n/a |
| Community Services Agency of Mountain View Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Inc | $265,000 | 10 | 1% |
| Castilleja School Foundation | $124,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation | $95,000 | 10 | 0% |
| St Judes Episcopal Church | $71,000 | 5 | n/a |
| North Shore Health | $68,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Sarcoma Foundation of America | $61,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Bright Funds Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · United Way Worldwide · The Valley Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
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About The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation
- How much does The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation give?
- The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $707,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (62%), Religion (14%), Health (5%).
- Who are The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Macalester College ($665k), Pacific School of Religion ($529k), Foothills Church ($512k).
- Does The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Intuit Foundation.
- Where is The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation based?
- The George & Wilma Leonard Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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