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Leever Family 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.

$168k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Recreation & Sports$551kSocial Science$160kPhilanthropy$33kEducation$21kYouth Development$15kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$766k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ski Snowboard Club Vail$82,000
The Atlas Society$35,000
Carrabassett Valley Academy$32,000
BRASS Foundation$5,000
High Fives Foundation$5,000
Paul Cutherbertson Foundation$5,000
Eagle Valley Community Fund$2,600
Colorado Snowsports Museum$1,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%The Atlas Society: $35k → 12%ATLAS SOCIETY: $45k → 16%UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY: $20k → 12%BRASS Foundation: $5k → 8%COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $5k → 6%SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB VAIL: $115k → 7%LOVELAND SKI CLUB: $20k → 7%AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $5k → 7%WINTER4KIDS: $5k → 6%BURKE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $30k → 12%CARRABASSETT VALLEY ACADEMY: $34k → 14%ATLAS SOCIETY: $45k → 16%UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY: $10k → 12%Ski Snowboard Club Vail: $82k → 7%AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $5k → 7%CARRABASSETT VALLEY ACADEMY: $34k → 14%ATLAS SOCIETY: $35k → 16%UNIVERSITY NEW HAVEN: $10k → 12%SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB VAIL: $77k → 7%Carrabassett Valley Academy: $32k → 14%SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB VAIL: $77k → 7%SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB VAIL: $30k → 7%Colorado Snowsports Museum: $1k → 7%Eagle Valley Community Fund: $3k → 7%EAGLE COUNTY BMX: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Leever Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Leever Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$691k · 6 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$691k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+40%

Still filing today

83%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • TA
    THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD
    4× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +104%
  • CV
    Carrabassett Valley Academy
    3× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +68%
  • THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • BM
    BURKE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • LS
    Loveland Ski Club Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +40%
  • UO
    University of New Havengraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +34%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
United States Ski Association

United States Ski Association is the national governing body overseeing the sports of Olympic and Paralympic skiing and snowboarding in the United States. See Schedule O for continuation.

Recreation & Sports
2
American Association of Avalanche Professionals

The american avalanche association promotes professional excellence in avalanche safety, education, and research in the united states.

3
Ussa Investment Fund

Operates exclusively to manage the investment of endowment gifts made for the benefit of supporting the development, training, and competition of elite national, international, and development athletes in skiing and snowboarding.

Recreation & Sports
4
The American Alpine Club

To share and support our passion for climbing information, knowledge, & resources that benefit and inspire future generations, advocate for & lead climbing interests, promote conservation, & foster community & competency.

5
Aspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc

To provide all youth in the greater roaring fork valley the opportunity to excel as athletes and as people through winter sports.

Recreation & Sports
6
United States Skiing Foundation

United states skiing foundation is engaged in not-for-profit membership, competition, training, development, and educational activities related to amateur skiers and snowboarders who are, or aspire to become, members of the u.s. ski and…

7
Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Inc

To create champions on and off the mountain by developing life skills and providing growth opportunities through participation in sports.

8
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
9
International Society of Automation

The international society of automation (isa) is a non-profit professional association founded in 1945 to create a better world through automation. isa empowers the global automation community through standards and knowledge sharing,…

Science & Tech
10
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc

Aura provides innovative, open resources to enable discovery and excellence in research, to unify the astrophysics communities, and to promote public understanding of our universe and the benefits of scientific exploration.

Science & Tech
11
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
12
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Transparency and the most unlike its peers is Brass. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ski and Snowboard Club Vail — $380,600 · OtherSki and Snowboard Club VailBURKE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE — $30,000 · OtherBURKE MOUNTAIN COLLEGETHE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC — $30,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC+8 more — $43,600 · Other+8 moreTHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD — $160,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTDCarrabassett Valley Academy — $100,000 · EducationCarrabassett Vall…University of New Haven — $10,000 · EducationUniversity of New…AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY — $10,000 · EducationAMERICAN TRANSPAR…Loveland Ski Club Inc — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsBRASS — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$484,200Arts & Culture$160,000Education$120,000Recreation & Sports$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSki and Snowboard Club Vail — $380,600 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD — $160,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCarrabassett Valley Academy — $100,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLoveland Ski Club Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUniversity of New Haven — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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 Ski and Snowboard Club Vail
  • Who funds THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD
  • Who funds Carrabassett Valley Academy
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC
  • Who funds Loveland Ski Club Inc
  • Who funds University of New Haven
  • Who funds AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY
  • Who funds BRASS
  • Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH8.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 organization Leever Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • University of New Haven1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Leever Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leever Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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