· Private foundation
The Leo and Eva Gans Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
87% of The Leo and Eva Gans Foundation Inc’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Foundation Of Nm, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Leo and Eva Gans Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $48k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $5,000 |
| Casa Q | $5,000 |
| United Way of Bergen County | $5,000 |
| Hillel Foundation at UC Santa BarbarA | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH | $2,500 |
| Jewish Community Foundation of New Mexico | $2,500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $2,500 |
| Planned Parenthood of Rocky Mountains | $2,500 |
| Jewish Federation of Northern NJ | $2,500 |
| ANTIDEFAMATION LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Childrens Health Council | $2,500 |
| Womens Economic Ventures | $2,500 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $2,500 |
| LUPUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +52%
- CQCASA Q INC4× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +196%
- WEWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES4× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +167%
Funded once
DIRECT RELIEFgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +94%- JTJCC Thurnauer School of Musicone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PSPEABODY SCHOOL SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 26 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CASA Q INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Leo and Eva Gans Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leo and Eva Gans Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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