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LEO FOUNDATION

LEO FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $534,736 to it, the largest being BHHS Legacy Foundation ($128,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$241k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$535k
Net assets
$247k
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Leo Foundation does

Mission

The organizations primary exempt purpose is to provide scholarships to traditional full-time undergraduate students enrolled at universities and colleges in arizona.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide scholarships to students enrolled at university

    $90,953 spentof which $86,175 as grants$221,591 earned by the program
    99% of program spending
  2. Provide support to other education based non-profits

    $500 spentof which $500 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $91,453.

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 ($759k) Expenses 100 ($777k) Net assets 100 ($875k)2018 Revenue 77 ($582k) Expenses 107 ($829k) Net assets 65 ($572k)2019 Revenue 33 ($254k) Expenses 40 ($312k) Net assets 63 ($554k)2020 Revenue 17 ($127k) Expenses 35 ($270k) Net assets 49 ($425k)2021 Revenue 36 ($273k) Expenses 28 ($219k) Net assets 55 ($480k)2022 Revenue 37 ($282k) Expenses 44 ($346k) Net assets 45 ($394k)2023 Revenue 38 ($287k) Expenses 56 ($438k) Net assets 28 ($241k)2024 Revenue 48 ($362k) Expenses 46 ($359k) Net assets 29 ($255k)2025 Revenue 32 ($241k) Expenses 31 ($239k) Net assets 28 ($247k)
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Revenue (32)Expenses (31)Net assets (28)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 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $949k (−27%).

$1.3M
$949k
$609k
$470k
$508k
$438k
$322k
$257k
$247k
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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

93% of LEO FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’17
−$247k
’18
−$59k
’19
−$143k
’20
$55k
’21
−$63k
’22
−$151k
’23
$3k
’24
$2k
’25
3.1
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.

Chief executive

Madeline Winney

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed533325556
Joined·+0+0+0··+1+0+1
No longer listed·200··100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $28k → $129k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 LEO FOUNDATION’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

LEO FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

59% 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 LEO FOUNDATION.

24%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 88% · 2022 81% · 2023 39% — 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

25% of LEO FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

93% of LEO FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

MO
MD
AZ

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

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’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

LEO FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like LEO FOUNDATION

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

38% of spending goes to programs.

Program 38%Management 42%Fundraising 20%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

53%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AZ

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEO FOUNDATION: 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 LEO FOUNDATION?
LEO FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $534,736 to it, the largest being BHHS Legacy Foundation ($128,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEO FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $534,736 in grants to LEO FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEO FOUNDATION?
BHHS Legacy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $128,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEO FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 13 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