· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $290k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $204k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY | $30,000 |
| HIGHER HEIGHTS | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 53% of The Leever Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WSWATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $644k · revenue +3% · 30% of their budget
- BCBRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $574k · revenue +106%
THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $331k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2018 · $3.0M
- ASAsheville Symphony Society Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $262k · revenue +99%
- BCBRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL MUSICone grant, 2020 · $58k
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.
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.
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…
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…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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.
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
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…
To improve the health and well-being of our community by providing high quality, coordinated health and support services, accessible to all.
Mary wade home provides the highest-quality compassionate care, senior living, and services that promote wellness for older adults in greater new haven.
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,…
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…
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
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…
How this is measured
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 THE HAROLD LEEVER REGIONAL CANCER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPERIENCE PRODUCTIONS 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 She Leads Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Leever Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leever Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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