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The Leavens Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$125k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Environment$1.2MHealth$390kArts & Culture$282kCivil Rights$220kAnimals$165kFood & Nutrition$50kHuman Services$34kEducation$30kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$25,000
BRANCH BROOK PARK ALLIANCE INC$25,000
GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY$25,000
EASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$20,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$10,138
BUCK INSTITUTE$10,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hero Dogs Inc: $2k → 8%Collier Resource Center: $5k → 10%America's Grow-A-Row: $20k → 4%America's Grow-A-Row: $15k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
KS
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 24 repeat orgs$421k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
32

Total granted

$2.0M
$356k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    5× · 2017–2022 · $225k · revenue +109%
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $210k · revenue +69%
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $191k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • GG
    GOLDEN GATE PARK CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AF
    Avow Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +23%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
2
Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters

New jersey lcv is the statewide political voice for the environment. working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies, support our environmental justice partners in pursuing more equitable policies,…

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3
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment
4
Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc

The mission of hackensack riverkeeper is to protect, preserve, and restore the hackensack river watershed and its living resources. hackensack riverkeeper fights for clean water, open space preservation, and public access to the river for…

Environment
5
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
6
Clean Ocean Action Inc

Clean ocean action's goal is to improve and protect the waters off the new jersey/new york coast from pollution, plastics, industrialization and climate change with research, education and citizen action.

Environment
7
New Jersey Audubon Society

The new jersey audubon society is a privately supported, not-for-profit, statewide membership organization. (see schedule o for details).

Environment
8
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
9
New River Land Trust

To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.

Environment
10
Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Inc

Conserve wildlife foundation of new jersey works to preserve rare and at-risk wildlife in new jersey through field science, habitat restoration, education, and public engagement.

Animals
11
Northern Neck Land Conservancy

Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…

Environment
12
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Newark Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Skylands Preservation Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyAnimal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Local History MuseumsLocal Food System Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/42
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,523

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $225,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDMUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION — $160,000 · EnvironmentMUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATIONGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC — $110,000 · EnvironmentGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INCRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION — $90,000 · EnvironmentRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATIONTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY — $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEYGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $30,200 · Environment+6 more — $86,000 · Environment+6 moreThe Nature Conservancy of NJ — $125,000 · OtherThe Nature Conservancy o…GOLDEN GATE PARK CONSERVANCY — $50,000 · OtherGOLDEN GATE PARK CONSERV…ANJEC-Association of New Jersey Env — $32,000 · OtherANJEC-Association of New…NJLCV EDUCATION FUND — $30,000 · OtherNJLCV EDUCATION FUNDPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $25,000 · OtherGREEN SCHOOLYARDS AMERICA — $25,000 · OtherWELLSPRING HEALTH ACCESS — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherSKYLANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE — $27,500 · OtherBRANCH BROOK PARK ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 · Other+23 more — $130,180 · Other+23 moreTrust Women Foundation Inc — $185,000 · HealthTrust Women Fo…MEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE — $105,000 · HealthMEDICAL STUDEN…Avow Foundation Inc — $25,000 · HealthAvow Foundatio…+1 more — $10,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA TROUT INC — $160,000 · AnimalsCALIFORNIA TR…TROUT UNLIMITED INC — $140,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMIT…MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC — $190,500 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VIN…NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $70,000 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY S…CivicStory — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $210,138 · Civil RightsTHE CENTE…Americas Grow-A-Row — $35,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesCOLLIER RESOURCE CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,500 · Human Services
Environment$751,200Other$539,680Health$325,000Animals$300,000Arts & Culture$275,500Civil Rights$210,138Human Services$59,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $225,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $210,138 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC — $190,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc — $185,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA TROUT INC — $160,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION — $160,000 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC — $110,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE — $105,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION — $90,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $70,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY — $50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAmericas Grow-A-Row — $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $30,200 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAvow Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRANCH BROOK PARK ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetVINEYARD OPEN LAND FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION — $11,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACCESS PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCivicStory — $10,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetCOUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY GRANTMAKERS INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC — $6,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE DECENCY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLIER RESOURCE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTABLE ON DELK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVermont Public Radio — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHero Dogs Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURAL TOURISM DC INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Victoria Foundation I…Community Foundation …Geraldine R Dodge Fou…Fm Kirby Foundation I…Ej Grassmann TrustThe Hyde and Watson F…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Pseg Foundation IncInvestors Foundation …Chubb Charitable Foun…Koven FoundationThe Tyler Foundation
Victoria Foundation IncNJ26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Victoria Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Koven Foundation · The Tyler Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Leavens Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
  • Hunterdon Land Trust — 48% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
  • Musconetcong Watershed Association — 14% of income from government
  • Branch Brook Park Alliance Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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