Virginia · Private foundation
The Leever Foundation
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.
- $652k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $203,640
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Leever Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $637k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $437k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $472k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $342k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $453k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $509k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $556k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $3.4M | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc | $644,067 | 4 | 30% |
| Brass City Charter School | $574,220 | 4 | 8% |
| The Peoples Place Inc | $333,640 | 2 | 32% |
| The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc | $330,845 | 9 | 1% |
| Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury Inc | $323,361 | 9 | 11% |
| Asheville Symphony Society Inc | $262,250 | 1 | 14% |
| Save Girls on Fyer Inc | $222,814 | 6 | 17% |
| Children's Community School Inc | $189,256 | 4 | 5% |
| Connecticut Council for Philanthropy | $170,555 | 7 | 4% |
| Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Programs Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 8% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Leever Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Leever Foundation
- How much does The Leever Foundation give?
- The Leever Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $652,440 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Leever Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), Arts & Culture (7%), Education (7%).
- Who are The Leever Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc ($644k), Brass City Charter School ($574k), The Peoples Place Inc ($334k).
- Does The Leever Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Leever 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 Leever Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Connecticut Community Foundation, Ion Bank Foundation Inc, Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Leever Foundation based?
- The Leever Foundation is based in VA.
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