Wisconsin · Nonprofit
LEAVEN INC
LEAVEN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,147,464 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ($2,191,168). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Leaven Inc does
Mission
Serving the needs of people in the tri-county area (calumet, outagamie, and winnebago counties) by: 1) providing emergency goods and services on a short-term basis to needy people who do not qualify for service by, or whose needs cannot be met entirely by existing agencies. 2)providing a central agency for referral and/pr distribution of goods and services that would help eliminate duplication of efforts while reducing fraudulent use of helping services through a comprehensive information file on agencies, referrals, services, and users. 3) providing a flow of information among helping agencies as to the ever- changing matters of services available and eligibility requirements. 4) analyzing use of services and policies of agencies to help advocate justice for the needy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Providing emergency goods and services on a short-term basis to needy people who do not qualify for service by, or whose needs cannot be met entirely by existing agencies.
$1,432,917 spentof which $1,037,711 as grants94% of program spendingThe lcrc (leaven community resource program) includes 14 partnering agencies under one roof. This one-of-a-kind resource center offers a wide variety of services and support. The following are the partnering agencies: energy services, inc., catholic charities, casa hispana, first 5 fox valley, umos, fox valley technical college, child care resource & referral, christine ann domestic abuse services, fox valley veterans council, legal action of wisconsin, safe families, childrens wisconsin, uw-madison extension,snd headsup fox cities.
$63,279 spent$30,326 earned by the program4% of program spendingPay it forward program is a no-fee, no-cost loan program for people who wouldn't qualify for assistance through the traditional charity model. A contingency to the loan is no-cost budget counseling provided by fisc. The goal of the program is to help participants learn to meet their basic needs and build financial self-sufficiency. Loans payments will be recycled to fund new loans, ensuring greater utilization of the organization's resources and enabling it to extend its reach to more households. During 2025, the organization paid out 0 in loans and received 557 in repayments.
$21,244 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,517,440.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $6.9M to $8.1M (+17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 9% · 2021 13% · 2022 18% · 2023 10% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of LEAVEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $535k → $600k.
16 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 LEAVEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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
LEAVEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 LEAVEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 73% · 2019 42% · 2020 51% · 2021 39% · 2022 29% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.
“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
58% of LEAVEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.
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
58% of LEAVEN INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.1M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
LEAVEN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LEAVEN INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAVEN INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEAVEN INC?
- LEAVEN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,147,464 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ($2,191,168). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEAVEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $5,147,464 in grants to LEAVEN INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAVEN INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,191,168 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAVEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 43 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing