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The Leonettio'Connell Family Foundation at a glance

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The Leonettio'Connell Family Foundation

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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$14MHealth$1.8MScience & Tech$1.5MHuman Services$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.1MEnvironment$852kArts & Culture$638kEmployment$350kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $297k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$94M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UCLA CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA CENTER$325,000
GRANTS UNDER 1K FOR FINANCIAL HARDS$187,409
RIVET SCHOOL$175,000
YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS$125,000
ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL$115,000
NATIVITY HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$93,060
BROWN UNIVERSITY$90,916
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$78,528
CARLTHORP SCHOOL$75,000
DARTMOUTH UNIVERSITY$64,505
SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL$50,000
THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST$50,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$45,484
STRIVE FOUNDATION$30,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE COLLEAGUES: $10k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $10k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $10k → 14%ONE DEGREE: $50k → 10%THE COLLEAGUES: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $15k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $15k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $15k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $15k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $25k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $25k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $25k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $25k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $20k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $20k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $10k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $250k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $200k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $150k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $125k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $100k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $28k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $100k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $15k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $65k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $15k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $50k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DC
LA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 51 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
37

Total granted

$16M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+39%

Still filing today

73%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $926k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +68%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +14%
  • SI
    SCHOLARMATCH INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.3M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • MH
    MARYMOUNT HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • Williams Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +51%
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $138k · revenue -23%
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.

04Its 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
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
3
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education
4
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
5
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
6
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
9
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
10
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Natis House. 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

77 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. 77 of the 122 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
63/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $1,680,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYSCHOLARMATCH INC: $1,297,000 · EducationSCHOLARMATCH INCTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL: $1,100,000 · EducationTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $858,337 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAUCLA FOUNDATION: $576,082 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $531,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOLBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School: $350,000 · EducationCARLTHORP SCHOOL: $315,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $300,000 · Education+21 more: $1,947,557 · Education+21 moreFOUNDATION FOR LA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $1,435,838 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR LA COMMUNITY COLLEGESMARYMOUNT HIGH SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · OtherMARYMOUNT HIGH SCHOOLTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $795,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYESSENTIAL ACCESS HEALTH: $740,022 · OtherESSENTIAL ACCESS HEALTHFOLAR: $541,480 · OtherFOLARJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $407,500 · OtherLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL: $381,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $350,000 · OtherHuman-I-T: $350,000 · OtherTHE UCLA CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA CENTER: $325,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $304,050 · Other+60 more: $2,044,041 · Other+60 moreCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,325,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $155,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureYoung Eisner Scholars: $1,040,000 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FIT: $150,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $60,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $57,500 · Human ServicesONE DEGREE: $50,000 · Human Services+2 more: $45,000 · Human ServicesHERNIA REPAIR FOR THE UNDERSERVED: $250,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $100,000 · HealthUpstream USA Inc: $100,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $100,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 · HealthST MARY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $375,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $160,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $118,200 · PhilanthropyLIFT INC: $360,360 · Employment
Education$8,954,976Other$8,674,431Arts & Culture$1,490,000Human Services$1,402,500Health$705,000Philanthropy$653,200Employment$360,360

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $1,680,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,325,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSCHOLARMATCH INC: $1,297,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL: $1,100,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $1,040,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $858,337 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $795,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetESSENTIAL ACCESS HEALTH: $740,022 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $576,082 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $531,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $407,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $375,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLIFT INC: $360,360 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHuman-I-T: $350,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School: $350,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCARLTHORP SCHOOL: $315,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERNIA REPAIR FOR THE UNDERSERVED: $250,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetCenter for Excellence in Education: $240,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL: $202,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $190,484 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT SCHOOL: $164,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $155,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $150,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $138,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $118,200 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpstream USA Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $90,916 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScripps College: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $78,528 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $64,505 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $64,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $57,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetST MARY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUPWARD BOUND HOUSE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARMATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Young Eisner Scholars ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ESSENTIAL ACCESS HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds LIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds Human-I-T ↗
  • Who funds Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School ↗
  • Who funds CARLTHORP SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds HERNIA REPAIR FOR THE UNDERSERVED ↗
  • Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
  • Who funds MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗

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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Conrad N Hilton Found…The Annenberg Foundat…The California Endowm…Silicon Valley Commun…Weingart FoundationThe California Wellne…Jewish Community Foun…The James Irvine Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ralph M Parsons F…
California Community FoundationCA33.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The California Endowment · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The James Irvine Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation

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 Leonettio'Connell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leonettio'Connell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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 Leonettio'Connell Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Leonettio'Connell Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 122 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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