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The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation

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.

$67k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$300
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 21
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$428k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionEnvironmentInternationalOther
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 arriving18$67k56%
FY20241$60k0%
FY202317$69k29%
FY202215$71k40%
FY202115$70k47%
FY202014$62k57%
FY201721$59kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$406kAnimals$23kArts & Culture$11kReligion$7kInternational$3kEnvironment$1kPhilanthropy$1kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NV
IA
CA
VA
AZ
DC
AL
TX

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 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($419k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Marine Mammal Center: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Legal Defense Fund Inc: $7,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCanal Alliance: $6,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKqed Inc: $4,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Humane Society: $1,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Oakland Animal Services: $1,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Earth: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildcare: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSea Shepherd Conservation Society: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Farming Association: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Orme School: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 24.

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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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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About The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation

How much does The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation give?
The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $67,020 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (89%), Animals (5%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Marine Mammal Center ($8k), Animal Legal Defense Fund Inc ($7k), Canal Alliance ($7k).
Does The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The George Schwab and Leona Lauder 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 Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation based?
The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation is based in CA.

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 58 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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