How much does The John & Sandra Leland Foundation give?

The John & Sandra Leland Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $372,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The John & Sandra Leland Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (36%), Religion (28%), Arts & Culture (18%).

Who are The John & Sandra Leland Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Eisenhower Medical Center ($250k), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($113k), Old Town Artisan Studio Inc ($97k).

Does The John & Sandra Leland Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The John & Sandra Leland Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The John & Sandra Leland Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Simon Blattner Family Foundation, Sonoma County Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation.

Where is The John & Sandra Leland Foundation based?

The John & Sandra Leland Foundation is based in CA.

The John & Sandra Leland Foundation

The John & Sandra Leland Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The John & Sandra Leland Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$373k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$486kReligion$376kArts & Culture$238kEducation$55kHuman Services$49kYouth Development$24kInternational$21kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k18 grants · $23k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$1,200

Median grant

States reached

$178k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Eisenhower Medical Center	$250,000
UCSF FOUNDATION	$100,000
SONOMA VALLEY MENTORING ALLIACE	$3,000
FISH	$2,000
OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIOS	$2,000
LA LUZ	$2,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
SAVATION ARMY	$2,000
SONOMA PLEIN AIR FOUNDATION	$1,400
IMPACT 100 SONOMA	$1,200
MCCULLUM THEATRE	$1,000
SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
SONOMA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$1,000
LIVING DESERT	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 32 repeat orgs$292k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%

+30%

Still filing today

59%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

OT
OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +13%
SV
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
6× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +40%
DIRECT RELIEF
2× · 2022–2023 · $21k · revenue +8%

Funded once

SV
SONOMA VALLEY AUTHORS FESTIVAL(MARIN LINK INC)
one grant, 2019 · $8k
LL
LA LUZ CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +30%
FA
Fine Arts Museum of SF
one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

Sonoma Botanical Garden

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Museum of Sonoma County

The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.

Arts & Culture

Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture

Sonoma Mountain Institute

Environment

Sutter Health

Health

Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health

Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture

Sutter Valley Medical Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: Caring for our patients first and our people always. VISION: To be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health

Solano Community Foundation

The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…

Philanthropy

Sonoma Valley Film Festival

Sonoma valley film society produces the annual international film festival

Arts & Culture

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony; the most unlike its peers is Fast Freddie Foundation. 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

34 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. 34 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/34

Grantees still filing

21/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$611,150Health$267,250Arts & Culture$217,518Education$149,050Philanthropy$51,100Human Services$34,450International$20,500

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.

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.

Simon Blattner Family FoundationCA26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Simon Blattner Family Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Vadasz Family Foundation · Sanderson Family Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Women Giving as One Inc · Gaia Fund · Khr McNeely Family Foundation · Manitou Fund

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 John & Sandra Leland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John & Sandra Leland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home