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The Leslie Joanne Foundation

$240k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC$20,000
THE NATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTERTON MISSION$20,000
ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS$20,000
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$20,000
CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC$20,000
VIOLA'S HOUSE$20,000
ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC$20,000
WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC$20,000
ESSENTIAL FAMILIES MIDWEST INC$20,000
THE SHADE TREE$20,000
YWCA TORONTO$20,000
SHADES OF BLUE PROJECT INTERNATIONAL$20,000
02The need
02

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 (FY24–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VIOLA'S HOUSE: $20k → 14%THE NATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTERTON MISSION: $20k → 12%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

MI
NY
OR
NV
PA
CO
MO
DC
TX
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 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
Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services
2
Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh

The mission of women's center & shelter of greater pittsburgh is to strengthen our ability to meet the individual and evolving needs of those affected by domestic violence by investing in the growth of our people, deepening community…

Human Services
3
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
4
Womens Resource Center of Newport and Bristol Counties

The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.

Human Services
5
Abby Kelley Foster House Inc

To provide shelter and affordable housing, as well as advocacy and support services, to homeless, battered and low-income women, with or without children. abby's house empowers the women we serve to lead self-directed lives filled with…

Housing & Shelter
6
Home for Homeless Women
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7
Clackamas Women's Services

Breaking the isolation of domestic and sexual violence.

Human Services
8
Safe House Inc

S.a.f.e. house is a community based non-profit organization committed to stop abuse in the family environment by providing a comprehensive approach to end domestic violence that includes crisis intervention, safe shelter, counseling,…

Human Services
9
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
10
Ywca of Greater Portland

To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services
11
Alexandra House Inc

Alexandra house's mission is to empower victims of domestic and sexual violence, and inspire social change through education, support and advocacy.

Human Services
12
Julia Greeley Home Inc

Julia greeley home, inc. serves single unaccompanied women in the denver metro area between the ages of 18 and 64 who are struggling with chronic or repeated homelessness. the program fulfills existing gaps between overnight short term…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls; the most unlike its peers is National Florence Crittenton Mission. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YWCA TORONTO: $20,000 · OtherYWCA TORONTOYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONSHADES OF BLUE PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 · OtherSHADES OF BLUE PROJECT INTERNATIONALTHE SHADE TREE INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE SHADE TREE INCNATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION: $20,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON…WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INCVIOLAS HOUSE: $20,000 · Human ServicesVIOLAS HOUSECALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCALVARY WOMEN'S SE…ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATIVES FOR G…GRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · EmploymentGRACE INS…Essential Families Midwest Inc: $20,000 · EducationEssential…ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalROSE ANDO…
Other$80,000Human Services$60,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Employment$20,000Education$20,000Crime & Legal$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEssential Families Midwest Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVIOLAS HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA11.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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
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 Leslie Joanne Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leslie Joanne Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • National Florence Crittenton Mission: 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Leslie Joanne Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Leslie Joanne 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 12 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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