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The Libelle Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$220k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$244kHealth$203kPhilanthropy$164kEducation$93kFood & Nutrition$89kInternational$86kHousing & Shelter$79kReligion$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
$8,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE$30,000
BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATIO$25,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART CIRCLE$25,000
JF LIBRARY FOUNDATION$15,000
WHEATON FUND$10,000
ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC$10,000
METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESBYTERIAN FOUN$10,000
ASSOC FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES & TRAI$10,000
DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST$10,000
BREAD FOR THE CITY$8,000
SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT$8,000
N STREET VILLAGE$8,000
ROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC$5,000
BULLIS SCHOOL$5,000
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SW FLORID$5,000
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 (FY18–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $2k → 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $2k → 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $2k → 11%THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $2k → 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $2k → 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $2k → 11%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

IL
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 26 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
8

Total granted

$1.0M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+13%

Still filing today

42%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PC
    Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn
    7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +11%
  • BG
    BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +311%
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING
    8× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CENTER OF BOCA GRANDE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • BG
    BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +13%
  • TC
    THE CIRCLE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
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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2
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
3
Global Citizens Public Charter School

Global citizens school's mission is to inspire and prepare the next generation or global citizens. we will do this by supporting students, ages 3-11, to reach their full academic and leadership potential in a nurturing learning…

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4
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education
5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
7
The Institute for Law and Strategy

This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…

Civil Rights
8
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
Broward Community and Family Health Centers Inc

The organization is a non-profit organization and is committed to providing accessible comprehensive high quality primary and preventive care services to all persons with dignity and respect. our focus is on preventive care and health…

Health
12
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bread for the City Inc; the most unlike its peers is Walter a Bloedorn Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 37 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART CIRCLE: $95,000 · OtherNATIONAL GALLERY OF ART CIRCLETHE WHEATON FUND: $72,000 · OtherTHE WHEATON FUNDMETROPOLITAN CLUB PRESBYTERIAN FOUN: $60,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN CLUB PRESBYTERIAN FOUNFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE: $57,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDENATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV: $55,000 · OtherNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVN STREET VILLAGE INC: $52,500 · OtherN STREET VILLAGE INCSOME INC: $52,500 · OtherSOME INCBEYOND THE HOOP FOUNDATION: $37,500 · OtherPOTOMAC FUND: $35,000 · OtherHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SW FLORID: $30,000 · OtherNATIONAL PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CENTER OF BOCA GRANDE: $25,000 · Other+13 more: $141,006 · Other+13 morePrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $110,000 · HealthPrevent Canc…ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $17,618 · HealthENGLEWOOD CO…ASSOCIATION FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING: $56,000 · InternationalBusiness Council for International Understanding Inc: $30,000 · InternationalBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $32,500 · Food & NutritionTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $25,000 · Arts & CultureROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CHILD RESEARCH CENTER: $5,000 · EducationBULLIS SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationPresbyterian School: $5,000 · EducationTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $12,000 · Human Services
Other$742,506Health$127,618International$86,000Philanthropy$75,000Food & Nutrition$32,500Arts & Culture$32,500Education$15,000Human Services$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $110,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING: $56,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $52,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSOME INC: $52,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBusiness Council for International Understanding Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $17,618 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD RESEARCH CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBULLIS SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALTER A BLOEDORN FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING ↗
  • Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Business Council for International Understanding Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHILD RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BULLIS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Presbyterian School ↗
  • Who funds WALTER A BLOEDORN 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.

Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Libelle Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Libelle Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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