· Private foundation
Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k108 grants · $334k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+10 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,550,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,550,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $1,550,000 |
| THE THACHER SCHOOL | $1,250,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES - ST JOHN'S SEMINARY | $1,000,000 |
| MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND | $1,000,000 |
| CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES - TEACHER SALARIES | $984,000 |
| THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION | $235,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $100,000 |
| DON BOSCO TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HOSPITALLER FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA INC | $100,000 |
| JOHN TRACY CENTER | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $7.5M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
171 repeat relationships — 96 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE4× · 2021–2024 · $8.6M · revenue +34%
- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +62%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +34%
Funded once
- AHALEXANDRIA HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $6.0M · revenue +12%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERone grant, 2020 · $4.5M
- SCSANTA CLARA UNIVERSITone grant, 2020 · $4.5M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Soar. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
201 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 201 of the 339 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE POLG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO ↗
- Who funds RAD CAMP INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Klm Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · QueensCare · Pasadena Community 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 organization Thomas & Dorothy Leavey 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Southern Nazarene University — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Drew University — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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