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The Leff Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$226k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$422kEnvironment$319kHousing & Shelter$310kRecreation & Sports$245kAnimals$25kHealth$12kFood & Nutrition$10kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USA TRIATHLON FOUNDATION$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BUCKS INC$50,000
THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE$50,000
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN MUSEUM$12,000
JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM$10,000
TIM KERR CHARITIES$2,000
HEALTHY KIDS RUNNING SERIES$1,152
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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 (FY17–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BUDS TO BLOSSOMS: $250 → 10%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $5k → 15%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

NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
SC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$1.3M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+71%

Still filing today

73%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
Human ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TW
    THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $319k · revenue +348%
  • UT
    USA Triathlon Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $240k · revenue +42%
  • JA
    JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • VC
    VETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +53%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • E
    Everwalkgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +84%

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
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
2
United States Anti-Doping Agency

Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes

Recreation & Sports
3
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
4
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.

Health
9
The Kidney Cancer Association

The kidney cancer association is a global community dedicated to serving and empowering patients, and leading change through advocacy, research, and education in order to be the universal leader in finding the cure for kidney cancer.

Health
10
Kids in Need Foundation

We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. by partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning…

Education
11
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
12
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc and the most unlike its peers is Everwalk. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE — $318,500 · OtherTHE WETLANDS INSTITUTEHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BUCKS INC — $310,124 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BUCKS INCOSCAR HAMMERSTEIN MUSEUM — $187,000 · OtherOSCAR HAMMERSTEIN MUSEUM+14 more — $30,050 · OtherUSA Triathlon Foundation — $240,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA Triathlon Founda…+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM — $235,000 · Arts & CultureJAMES A MICHENER AR…VETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $20,000 · AnimalsThe Florida Aquarium Inc — $5,000 · AnimalsHEALTHY KIDS RUNNING SERIES — $1,813 · AnimalsBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $7,450 · HealthTIM KERR CHARITIES INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$845,674Recreation & Sports$245,000Arts & Culture$235,000Animals$26,813Human Services$15,250Health$7,450Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetTHE WETLANDS INSTITUTE — $318,500 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetUSA Triathlon Foundation — $240,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM — $235,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetVETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $7,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEverwalk — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Florida Aquarium Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIM KERR CHARITIES INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN — $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY KIDS RUNNING SERIES — $1,813 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUDS TO BLOSSOMS — $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 WETLANDS INSTITUTE
  • Who funds USA Triathlon Foundation
  • Who funds JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds VETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds Everwalk
  • Who funds The Florida Aquarium Inc
  • Who funds TIM KERR CHARITIES INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC
  • Who funds HEALTHY KIDS RUNNING SERIES
  • Who funds Philabundance
  • Who funds BUDS TO BLOSSOMS
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY9.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Leff Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
  • The Wetlands Institute2% of income from government
  • The Florida Aquarium Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 28 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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