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The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
6
Organizations funded FY2022
33%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 8
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 33% of the organizations The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
FY20226$31k33%
FY20216$27k33%
FY20208$41k25%
FY20197$66k29%
FY20188$18k25%
FY20177$21kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$151kRecreation & Sports$16kHousing & Shelter$10kPhilanthropy$7kEnvironment$6kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$2kAnimals$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seton Hall University$72,75030%
Monmouth University Inc$42,00060%
Golf Fore Africa Inc$16,00021%
Holidays for the Homeless and Under Privileged Inc$10,00045%
St Benedicts Preparatory School Inc$10,0001n/a
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$7,52710%
Hope For The Warriors$6,50030%
The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill$2,30010%
Monmouth County Spca$50010%
Villanova University$30010%
Colts Neck Fire Department Inc$25010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeton Hall University: $72,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMonmouth University Inc: $42,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGolf Fore Africa Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHolidays for the Homeless and Under Privileged Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $7,527 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill: $2,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonmouth County Spca: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVillanova University: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColts Neck Fire Department Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.5% 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 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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Find your warmest path to The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation 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.

About The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation

How much does The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation give?
The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $31,327 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (74%), Recreation & Sports (8%), Housing & Shelter (5%).
Who are The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Seton Hall University ($73k), Monmouth University Inc ($42k), Golf Fore Africa Inc ($16k).
Does The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The James and Kathleen Leber 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 James and Kathleen Leber Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation based?
The James and Kathleen Leber Foundation is based in NJ.

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 17 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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