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The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh 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.

$26k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
9
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$100
Largest grant, FY2021
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 20
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
3
Total assets, FY2021
$969k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20219$26k0%
FY202020$96kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Religion$37kArts & Culture$35kHealth$22kYouth Development$16kEducation$5kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$3kAnimals$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wilshire Boulevard Temple$35,5502n/a
Los Angeles Ballet Inc$25,08821%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$21,50020%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Chapman University$5,00010%
Friends of Robinson Gardens Inc$2,94020%
Stop Poaching Now Inc$1,50011%
Adel B Korkor Md Foundation for Mental$1,18020%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$20020%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLos Angeles Ballet Inc: $25,088 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChapman University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Robinson Gardens Inc: $2,940 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetStop Poaching Now Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAdel B Korkor Md Foundation for Mental: $1,180 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh 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.

About The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation

How much does The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation give?
The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $26,095 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Arts & Culture (29%), Health (18%).
Who are The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Wilshire Boulevard Temple ($36k), Los Angeles Ballet Inc ($25k), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($22k).
Does The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation based?
The Leslie and Jack Kavanaugh Foundation is based in FL.

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 20 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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