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The Leeps Foundation Inc

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.

$84k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$45,800
Organizations funded a year
14 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$821k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations The Leeps Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitEducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving21$84k10%
FY202427$81k4%
FY202322$70k9%
FY202224$70k38%
FY202125$72k8%
FY202023$65k43%
FY201916$53k19%
FY201814$53k50%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$434kAnimals$62kHuman Services$41kYouth Development$21kRecreation & Sports$16kReligion$13kEducation$8kEnvironment$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hoofbeats Therapeutic Riding Center Inc$325,800938%
Wings of Hope Ranch Inc$16,70051%
Hope Reins$14,50070%
Bit of Hope Ranch Inc$14,30061%
Brook Hill Retirement Center for Horses Inc$13,25071%
Risen Ridge Ministry$11,5004n/a
Bright Side Youth Ranch Inc$11,35052%
Dare to Dream Therapeutic Horsemanship Center$10,2006n/a
Glory Reins Incorporated$9,50043%
Spur N Up Hope Inc$9,40043%
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All grantees of The Leeps Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hoofbeats Therapeutic Riding Center Inc$325,800938%
Wings of Hope Ranch Inc$16,70051%
Hope Reins$14,50070%
Bit of Hope Ranch Inc$14,30061%
Brook Hill Retirement Center for Horses Inc$13,25071%
Risen Ridge Ministry$11,5004n/a
Bright Side Youth Ranch Inc$11,35052%
Dare to Dream Therapeutic Horsemanship Center$10,2006n/a
Glory Reins Incorporated$9,50043%
Spur N Up Hope Inc$9,40043%
Shining Hope Farms$8,25050%
Trails of Purpose$8,00055%
Virginia Baptist Children's Home and Family Services$7,50040%
Equi-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program$7,09560%
Healing Strides of Virginia$5,98250%
New Freedom Farm Inc$5,75031%
Heartland Horse Heroes Inc$5,70059%
Blue and Gray Search and Rescue Dogs Inc$5,1355n/a
Ride With Pride Inc$5,00061%
Bridle Paths$5,00050%
Dream Catchers$4,55040%
Cloverleaf Equine Center$4,50050%
Blue Ridge Center for Therapeutichorsemanship$4,50043%
New Day Equine Therapy$4,50033%
Barns at Blue Mountain Inc$3,80023%
Simple Changes Inc$3,50031%
Rainbow Therapeutic Riding Center$2,25020%
Project Horse Inc$2,00021%
Virginia Search and Rescue Dog Association Inc$1,5001n/a
Lonesome Dove Equestrian Center$1,50021%
Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue Inc$1,50020%
Mended Sparrow Inc$1,0001n/a
Healing Journey Ministry$1,0001n/a
Checkpoint One$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Leeps Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHoofbeats Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $325,800 over 9y, 38% of budgetWings of Hope Ranch Inc: $16,700 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHope Reins: $14,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBit of Hope Ranch Inc: $14,300 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBrook Hill Retirement Center for Horses Inc: $13,250 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBright Side Youth Ranch Inc: $11,350 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGlory Reins Incorporated: $9,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetSpur N Up Hope Inc: $9,400 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetShining Hope Farms: $8,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTrails of Purpose: $8,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetVirginia Baptist Children's Home and Family Services: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEqui-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program: $7,095 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHealing Strides of Virginia: $5,982 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNew Freedom Farm Inc: $5,750 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHeartland Horse Heroes Inc: $5,700 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetRide With Pride Inc: $5,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetBridle Paths: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDream Catchers: $4,550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCloverleaf Equine Center: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBlue Ridge Center for Therapeutichorsemanship: $4,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetNew Day Equine Therapy: $4,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBarns at Blue Mountain Inc: $3,800 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSimple Changes Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRainbow Therapeutic Riding Center: $2,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetProject Horse Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLonesome Dove Equestrian Center: $1,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHope's Legacy Equine Rescue Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCheckpoint One: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 28.

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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.

Paul H Pusey FoundationFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paul H Pusey Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Virginia Equine Alliance · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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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About The Leeps Foundation Inc

How much does The Leeps Foundation Inc give?
The Leeps Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $84,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Leeps Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (72%), Animals (10%), Human Services (7%).
Who are The Leeps Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hoofbeats Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ($326k), Wings of Hope Ranch Inc ($17k), Hope Reins ($15k).
Does The Leeps Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Leeps Foundation Inc 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 Leeps Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paul H Pusey Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Christopher Reeve Foundation.
Where is The Leeps Foundation Inc based?
The Leeps Foundation Inc is based in VA.

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 49 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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