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· Private foundation

The Leir Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$16MEnvironment$5.1MHealth$1.7MEducation$1.0MHuman Services$1.0MArts & Culture$732kFood & Nutrition$524kScience & Tech$435kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $8,649,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,721,614 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,072,614 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$5,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$95M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PONT DE VUE Stiftung$5,000,000
THE LEIR RETREAT CENTER$3,649,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SEE ATTACHMENT A: $2.4M → 17%SEE ATTACHMENT A: $5.6M → 9%SEE ATTACHMENT A: $2.3M → 17%SEE ATTACHMENT A: $4.9M → 9%THE LEIR RETREAT CENTER: $1.6M → 17%THE LEIR RETREAT CENTER: $3.6M → 9%THE LEIR RETREAT CENTER: $1.6M → 17%SEE ATTACHMENT A: $3.3M → 9%THE LEIR RETREAT CENTER: $1.2M → 17%THE LEIR RETREAT CENTER: $2.7M → 9%SEE ATTACHMENT A: $2.5M → 9%THE LEIR RETREAT CENTER: $1.4M → 9%THE LEIR RETREAT CENTER: $1.3M → 9%THE LEIR RETREAT CENTER: $1.1M → 9%SEE ATTACHMENT A: $803k → 9%SEE ATTACHMENT A: $710k → 9%SEE ATTACHMENT A: $330k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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 sends the money.

About 8% of The Leir Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Leir Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its field

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.

1
Jewish Family Services of Greenwich

Jewish family services of greenwich (jfs) is a nonprofit social service agency dedicated to strengthening individuals and families in fairfield and new london counties. jfs provides behavioral health counseling, food security programs,…

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2
The Norwalk Hospital Association

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
3
Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
4
Family Centers Inc

Family centers inc. is a non-stock, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to empower children, adults, families and communities to realize their potential. for more information, see schedule o.

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5
Northern Dutchess Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
6
Natchaug Hospital Inc

The mission of Natchaug Hospital is to provide a continuum of accessible, community-based services for those living with psychiatric illness and chemical dependency or emotional and related educational disabilities, with a commitment to…

Health
7
Feeding Families Foundation Inc

Feeding families foundation's mission is to eliminate hospital food insecurity for parents/caregivers of critically ill children by covering the cost of hospital meals and having those meals delivered to the room so parents do not need to…

Food & Nutrition
8
Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial Inc

Through our proven care models, innovative programs, professional training, influential research and determined advocacy, andrus aims to be a national leader in shaping policies and practices that prevent and overcome the effect of…

Unclassified
9
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
10
Community Health Center Inc

Community health center (chc) is building a world class primary care organization, improving health outcomes and building healthier communities through clinical excellence, research and innovation, and training the next generation. chc is…

Health
11
Rushford Center Inc

Rushford Center, Inc., is dedicated to meeting the substance abuse and mental health needs of children, adults and families. Working cooperatively with our Hartford HealthCare network partners and others who share our goals, Rushford…

Health
12
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Karen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Childrens Help Net Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 95 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
23/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LEIR RETREAT CENTER INC: $15,983,343 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LEIR RETREAT CENTER INCPONT DE VUE Stiftung: $5,000,000 · OtherPONT DE VUE StiftungTufts University (Food Security): $500,000 · Other+74 more: $4,815,465 · Other+74 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 · HealthThe Danbury Hospital: $100,000 · HealthThe Rogosin Institute Inc: $100,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS: $150,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $125,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 · InternationalCONNECTICUT QUEST FOR PEACE INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSNACK & FRIENDS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesANNS PLACE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesFamilies Network of Western CT Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $50,000 · EducationDANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · EducationRidgefield Library Association Inc: $10,000 · Education
Youth Development$15,983,343Other$10,315,465Health$500,000Philanthropy$275,000International$220,000Human Services$170,000Education$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LEIR RETREAT CENTER INC: $15,983,343 over 8y, 100% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS: $150,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $125,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Danbury Hospital: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rogosin Institute Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSNACK & FRIENDS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetANNS PLACE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamilies Network of Western CT Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD INC: $14,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCHILDRENS HELP NET FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRidgefield Library Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROTHY DAY HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetRIDGEFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
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 LEIR RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds The Danbury Hospital ↗
  • Who funds The Rogosin Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE 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.

Union Savings Bank Fo…Fairfield County's Co…Ridgefield Thrift Sho…Savings Bank of Danbu…Synchrony FoundationAnna-Maria and Stephe…Albert and Helen Mese…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Ayco Charitable F…Patrick FoundationThe Goldstone Family …Diageo North America …
Union Savings Bank Foundation IncCT22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · Albert and Helen Meserve Mem Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Patrick Foundation · The Goldstone Family Foundation · Diageo North America Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Leir Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leir Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Leir Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Leir Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 95 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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