· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $7k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Biomedicinske centrum SAV | $60,000 |
| KQED | $1,000 |
| Animal Legal Defense Fund | $1,000 |
| The Marine Mammal Center | $1,000 |
| KALW | $1,000 |
| Oakland Animal Services | $500 |
| Canal Alliance | $400 |
| International Rescue Committee | $400 |
| Amnesty International | $300 |
| Planned Parenthood | $200 |
| Guide Dogs for the Blind | $200 |
| Wikipedia Foundation | $200 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $200 |
| Wildcare | $200 |
| KDFC | $120 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 13% of grant dollars ($58k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 87% that went abroad ($400k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 87% of all-years giving ($400k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 10 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +63%
- ALANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC7× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +55%
- CACANAL ALLIANCE3× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- SASlovakia Academy of Sciencesone grant, 2021 · $60k
- UUCSFone grant, 2020 · $1k
- IFIntersection for the Artsone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -23%
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.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Intersection for the Arts ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds MARIGOLD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George Schwab and Leona Lauder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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