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LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH

LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH (Connecticut) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,688 to it, the largest being VRANOS FOUNDATION ($150,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$231k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$437k
Net assets
$1.9M
11/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Leas Foundation for Leukemia Research does

Mission

Lea's Foundation was established to fund research into the causes and/or cures for Leukemia and its related cancers of Lymphoma, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and Multiple Mylemoa. Additionally the Foundation provides financial assistance to patients affected by Leukemia and similar malignant blood-related diseases. The Foundation further provides increased public awareness of these cancers through its participation and support of community health programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Lea's Foundation for Leukemia Research, Inc. promotes and funds activities associated with the education, research and treatment of leukemia and its related cancers (including lymphoma, myeloma and Hodgkin's Lymphoma disease) in an effort to find a cure for the diseases.

    $142,781 spentof which $127,000 as grants$34,783 earned by the program
    73% of program spending
  2. The Patient services program provides financial assistance to patients or families of patients affected by cancer.

    $52,002 spent
    27% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $194,783.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($616k) Expenses 100 ($409k) Net assets 100 ($756k)2018 Revenue 83 ($510k) Expenses 61 ($248k) Net assets 135 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 51 ($315k) Expenses 97 ($396k) Net assets 124 ($937k)2020 Revenue 49 ($303k) Expenses 43 ($174k) Net assets 141 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 38 ($231k) Expenses 17 ($69k) Net assets 163 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 16 ($98k) Expenses 30 ($123k) Net assets 159 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 45 ($276k) Expenses 27 ($110k) Net assets 181 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 86 ($532k) Expenses 24 ($97k) Net assets 239 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 38 ($231k) Expenses 51 ($208k) Net assets 248 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (38)Expenses (51)Net assets (248)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $1.9M (+23%).

$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.9M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

15% of LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$206k
’17
$262k
’18
−$81k
’19
$129k
’20
$162k
’21
−$25k
’22
$165k
’23
$434k
’24
$23k
’25
23
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

David Archilla

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed242423232524282824
Joined·+0+5+0+3+0+7+1+2
No longer listed·06011316
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income fell $54k → $43k.

6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH.

34%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 38% · 2019 51% · 2020 47% · 2021 63% · 2022 35% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

15% of LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 6 states in all.

NY
NJ
CT
VA
MD
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve23.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

24
board members
67%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

70%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH?
LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH (Connecticut) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,688 to it, the largest being VRANOS FOUNDATION ($150,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $436,688 in grants to LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH?
VRANOS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEAS FOUNDATION FOR LEUKEMIA RESEARCH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing