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The Leah M Sundheimer Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Leah M Sundheimer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$89kArts & Culture$58kHousing & Shelter$15kHealth$5k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$597k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASS HOUSING INC$10,000
PATHFINDER SERVICES INC$5,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$5,000
ANTHONY WAYNE REHABILITATION CENTER$5,000
HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC$5,000
SERVANTS AT WORK INC$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAINT ANNE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%DANIELS PLACE INC: $8k → 12%SERVANTS AT WORK INC: $4k → 16%SAINT ANNE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%SAINT ANNE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%Whites Residential and Family Services I: $15k → 12%Whites Residential and Family Services I: $8k → 12%WHITES RESIDENTIAL AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 12%Whites Residential and Family Services I: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
$130k · 6 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$130k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+326%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • TH
    THE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +82%
  • WR
    WHITE'S RESIDENTIAL & FAMILY SERVICES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +38%
  • SA
    ST ANNE'S RETIREMENT COMMUNITYINC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • WC
    WABASH COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +44%
  • DP
    DANIELS PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +326%
  • TW
    THE WABASH WOMANS CLUB HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

1
Fulfillment House Inc
Health
2
Heritage Christian Services Inc

At heritage christian services, we believe in possibilities. established in 1984, heritage christian services strives to advance an inclusive and equitable community. our more than 3,900 employees work alongside the people who choose our…

Human Services
3
Edwards Center Inc

It is our mission to enhance the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities by helping them reach their highest potential through training, education, employment, housing and social opportunities in safe, healthy and stimulating…

Employment
4
Cottonwood Community Alternatives

Cottonwood's mission is to provide a variety of community-based supports and services to adults with developmental disabilities, empowering them to live as independently and productively as possible while promoting individual choice,…

Human Services
5
Job Haines Home for Aged People
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6
Wesley Commons

Wesley commons is a continuing care retirement community that provides value-based health services, including assisted living, intermediate and skilled nursing care, specialized care for alzheimer's and dementia-related illnesses, as well…

Human Services
7
Goodlife Innovations Inc

Goodlife's mission is to make a meaningful difference in the everyday lives of individuals who need help to live more independently (individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, brain injuries, physical or age-related…

Human Services
8
Human Development Services Westchester Inc

Human development services of westchester, inc. ("hdsw")is a social service organization providing quality behavorial health, rehabilitative, health, residential and community stabilization services in westchester county. hdsw is dedicated…

Health
9
Inglis Community Services Inc

Inglis' mission is to enable people with disabilities - and those who care for them - to achieve their goals and live life to the fullest.

Human Services
10
Lifeworks Incorporated

Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…

Human Services
11
Residential Services Inc

Residential Services, Inc. provides living options and related supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages.

Health
12
Mainstay Life Services

Individuals with developmental disabilities will live within a community that sustains them and benefits from their participation. mainstay life services will be regarded as the region's provider of choice for individuals and families…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is White's Residential & Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Daniels Place Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHITE'S RESIDENTIAL & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesWHITE'S RESIDENTIAL & FAMILY SERVICES INCST ANNE'S RETIREMENT COMMUNITYINC: $25,000 · Human ServicesST ANNE'S RETIREMENT COMMUNITYINCDANIELS PLACE INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesDANIELS PLACE INCServants at Work Inc: $4,000 · Human ServicesServants at Work IncWABASH COUNTY MUSEUM: $12,500 · OtherWABASH COUNTY MUSEUMMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONPATHFINDER SERVICES INC: $5,000 · OtherPATHFINDER SERVICES INCTHE WABASH WOMANS CLUB HOUSE: $5,000 · OtherTHE WABASH WOMANS CLUB HO…ANTHONY WAYNE REHABILITATION CENTER: $5,000 · OtherANTHONY WAYNE REHABILITAT…THE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HONEYWELL FOUNDATIO…CASS HOUSING INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCASS HOUSI…WABASH COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$69,000Other$37,500Philanthropy$35,000Housing & Shelter$15,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE'S RESIDENTIAL & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST ANNE'S RETIREMENT COMMUNITYINC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASS HOUSING INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWABASH COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDANIELS PLACE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPATHFINDER SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Floyd a & Frieda …Ford Meter Box Founda…Aws Foundation IncNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Floyd a & Frieda S Guynn FoundationMO15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Floyd a & Frieda S Guynn Foundation · Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Leah M Sundheimer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leah M Sundheimer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 12 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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