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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 FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$204k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$11MArts & Culture$1.1MEducation$1.0MYouth Development$476kCommunity Improvement$398kHousing & Shelter$367kHealth$292kHuman Services$192kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $159k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $204k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PEOPLE'S PLACE$203,640
DWIGHT HALL AT YALE$35,500
NAUGATUCK VALLEY PROJECT INC$34,000
SAVE GIRLS ON FYER INC$32,500
HIGHER HEIGHTS$30,000
CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY$30,000
NEST (NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WATERBURY)$24,000
SHE LEADS JUSTICE$20,000
BRIDGE TO SUCCESS$20,000
MADRE LATINA ORGANIZATION INC$19,000
CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$15,000
CARING FOR BETHLEHEM$10,250
BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE$10,000
THE HISPANIC COALITION$10,000
ELENA'S LIGHT INC$8,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $200 → 16%MADRE LATINA ORGANIZATION INC: $19k → 12%CARING FOR BETHLEHEM: $10k → 9%MADRE LATINA INC: $15k → 12%MADRE LATINA ORGANIZATION INC: $15k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 11%MADRE LATINA: $3k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 11%MADRE LATINA ORGANIZATION INC: $3k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 11%CARING FOR BETHLEHEM: $3k → 9%ANNIE C COURTNEY FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 12%CARING FOR BETHLEHEM: $3k → 9%CARING FOR BETHLEHEM: $1k → 9%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 12%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $20k → 12%THE NEW HAVEN PRIDE CENTER: $750 → 12%MADRE LATINA INC: $3k → 12%CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $341 → 12%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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 53% of The Leever Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Leever Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 71 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

71 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
53

Total granted

$4.1M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+30%

Still filing today

65%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • WS
    WATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $644k · revenue +3% · 30% of their budget
  • BC
    BRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $574k · revenue +106%
  • THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $331k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2018 · $3.0M
  • AS
    Asheville Symphony Society Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $262k · revenue +99%
  • BC
    BRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL MUSIC
    one grant, 2020 · $58k

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
The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc

The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…

Community Improvement
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
4
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
5
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

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6
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut Inc

Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…

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7
Wood River Health Services Inc

To improve the health and well-being of our community by providing high quality, coordinated health and support services, accessible to all.

Health
8
The Mary Wade Home Incorporated

Mary wade home provides the highest-quality compassionate care, senior living, and services that promote wellness for older adults in greater new haven.

Health
9
Whitney Center Inc

Whitney center's mission, excellence in senior living, is grounded in the principal that all elders, regardless of physical or cognitive limitation, have the right to engage in life and seek fulfillment. our ideals of self-determination,…

Human Services
10
Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities Inc

The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…

—
11
Westbrook Youth and Family Services Inc

To support and strengthen the youth and families of westbrook, ct through coordinating and providing a comprehensive delivery system of prevention, intervention, treatment, and follow up services

Human Services
12
Connecticut Community Care Inc

Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Institute for American Indian Studies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%9%<5yr13%9%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr21%19%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr15%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%4%<5yr13%1%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr21%3%20–35yr14%71%35–55yr15%14%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/87
the rest of the field
10%
3,929/38,582

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.

05the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 138 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/75
Grantees still filing
49/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $7,283,535 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INCTHE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $393,675 · Philanthropy+3 more — $189,055 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA — $3,031,536 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NOR…THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC — $330,845 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY…CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $189,256 · Other+104 more — $1,256,319 · Other+104 moreWATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $644,067 · Arts & CultureAsheville Symphony Society Inc — $262,250 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPERIENCE PRODUCTIONS INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureMATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $42,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $70,832 · Arts & CultureBRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL — $574,220 · EducationHIGHER HEIGHTS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $70,000 · EducationDWIGHT HALL AT YALE — $53,000 · EducationPiney Woods School — $49,500 · EducationBrass City Gamers Tournament Inc — $37,000 · Education+3 more — $24,750 · EducationThe Peoples Place Inc — $333,640 · Community ImprovementNAUGATUCK VALLEY PROJECT INC — $34,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WATERBURY INC — $323,361 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $1,250 · Housing & ShelterSAVE GIRLS ON FYER INC — $222,814 · Youth DevelopmentPORTERS HOUSE INC — $9,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $12,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$7,866,265Other$4,807,956Arts & Culture$1,064,149Education$808,470Community Improvement$367,640Housing & Shelter$324,611Youth Development$243,814

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $644,067 over 4y, 30% of budgetBRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL — $574,220 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $393,675 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetThe Peoples Place Inc — $333,640 over 2y, 32% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC — $330,845 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WATERBURY INC — $323,361 over 9y, 11% of budgetAsheville Symphony Society Inc — $262,250 over 1y, 14% of budgetSAVE GIRLS ON FYER INC — $222,814 over 6y, 17% of budgetCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $189,256 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY — $170,555 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetHIGHER HEIGHTS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $70,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetMADRE LATINA ORGANIZATION INC — $58,157 over 6y, 12% of budgetDWIGHT HALL AT YALE — $53,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPiney Woods School — $49,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL MISSION OF WATERBURY — $48,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWELLMORE INC — $46,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKESPERIENCE PRODUCTIONS INC — $45,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTHE HAROLD LEEVER REGIONAL CANCER CENTER INC — $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $42,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHISPANIC COALITION OF GREATER WATERBURY — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC — $40,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBrass City Gamers Tournament Inc — $37,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetEASTER SEAL REHABILITATION CENTER OF GREATER WATERBURY INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $33,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES — $30,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetSAINT MARY'S HOSPITAL INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShe Leads Justice Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC — $23,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC — $23,232 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT JUNIOR REPUBLIC ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFlanders Nature Center & Land Trust Inc — $19,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CONNECTICUT RIVERS COUNCIL INC — $18,625 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCARING FOR BETHLEHEM INC — $16,750 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAfro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budget50CAN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC — $12,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSki and Snowboard Club Vail — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHartford HealthCare at Home Inc — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPORTERS HOUSE INC — $9,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVNA Northwest Inc — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds BRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Peoples Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WATERBURY INC ↗
  • Who funds Asheville Symphony Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAVE GIRLS ON FYER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER HEIGHTS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds MADRE LATINA ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DWIGHT HALL AT YALE ↗
  • Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL MISSION OF WATERBURY ↗
  • Who funds WELLMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHAKESPERIENCE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HAROLD LEEVER REGIONAL CANCER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC COALITION OF GREATER WATERBURY ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC ↗
  • Who funds Brass City Gamers Tournament Inc ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEAL REHABILITATION CENTER OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
  • Who funds NAUGATUCK VALLEY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARY'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds She Leads Justice Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗

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.

The Connecticut Commu…Ion Bank Foundation I…Thomaston Savings Ban…American Savings Foun…William Caspar Graust…The United Way of Gre…Liberty Bank Foundati…Eversource Energy Fou…The Community Foundat…Fairfield County's Co…Elisha Leavenworth Fo…Webster Bank Charitab…
The Connecticut Community FoundationCT81.2× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Leever Foundation 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 · 180%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Community Partners in Action Inc — 90% of income from government
  • Connecticut Junior Republic Association Incorporated — 71% of income from government
  • Wellmore Inc — 65% of income from government
  • Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury — 53% of income from government
  • St Vincent Depaul Mission of Waterbury — 49% of income from government
  • Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
  • She Leads Justice Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Rivera Memorial Foundation Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Design Museum Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Madre Latina Organization Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc — 11% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury Inc — 8% of income from government
  • The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
  • New Life Furniture Bank of Ma Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Shakesperience Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Harold Leever Regional Cancer Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Leever Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Leever Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 138 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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