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· Private foundation
THE LESLIE JOANNE FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$240k
Granted FY2024
12
Grants
9
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- GRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC$20,000
- SHADES OF BLUE PROJECT INTERNATIONAL$20,000
- YWCA TORONTO$20,000
- THE NATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTERTON MISSION$20,000
- CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC$20,000
- YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$20,000
- ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC$20,000
- ESSENTIAL FAMILIES MIDWEST INC$20,000
- THE SHADE TREE$20,000
- WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC$20,000
- ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS$20,000
- VIOLA'S HOUSE$20,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
The Women's Shelter
The mission of the shelter is to create opportunities and offer choices to women in crises by providing shelter and various support services.
Health
2
A Woman's Place
A woman's place is a community-based social change organization committed to the empowerment of women and to ending intimate and domestic violence for all.
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3
Women's Aid Service Inc
To provide safety and empowerment to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and to work to eliminate sexual victimization and domestic violence through shelter, treatment, education and social change.
Crime & Legal
4
Vera House Inc
The agency provides emergency shelter, advocacy and counseling for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
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5
Women's Shelter Inc
The mission of women's shelter, inc. is to assist victims of domestic violence, women, individuals and families, by establishing and maintaining a facility which will provide temporary shelter and services to these victims.
Human Services
6
Womens Aid in Crisis Inc
Domestic violence shelter provides 24 hour a day crisis intervention and advocacy along with emergency food, clothing, and shelter to those in situations related to domestic violence and sexual assault.
Human Services
7
Woman Inc
W.o.m.a.n., inc. supports survivors ofdomestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridgingvalue-rich networks designed to address intersections of violence.
Health
8
Home for Homeless Women
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9
Womens Information Services Inc
To provide advocacy, safety options and support services to survivors of domestic violence and adult sexual assault.
Human Services
10
The Women's Center Inc
To provide support for all impacted by domestic/child abuse, sexual violence & trafficking.
Human Services
11
Womensafe Inc
Womensafe works toward the elimination of physical, sexual and emotional violence through direct service, education and social change.
Human Services
12
A Woman's Place Incorporated
To shelter and help empower victims/survivors of domestic abuse.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women Against Abuse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grace Institute of New York Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$100,000Human Services$40,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Employment$20,000Education$20,000Crime & Legal$20,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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.
Verizon FoundationNJ12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation THE LESLIE JOANNE 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ESSENTIAL FAMILIES MIDWEST INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 12.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 844124831 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ESSENTIAL FAMILIES MIDWEST INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Leslie Joanne Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Leslie Joanne Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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