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MATT LEINART FOUNDATION

MATT LEINART FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,375 to it, the largest being JOHN & HILDA ARNOLD FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$42k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$237k
Net assets
$89k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($371k) Expenses 100 ($323k) Net assets 100 ($210k)2018 Revenue 93 ($344k) Expenses 103 ($333k) Net assets 105 ($222k)2019 Revenue 54 ($202k) Expenses 74 ($238k) Net assets 88 ($185k)2020 Revenue 11 ($42k) Expenses 42 ($137k) Net assets 42 ($89k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (11)Expenses (42)Net assets (42)

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 $185k to $89k (−52%).

$210k
$222k
$185k
$89k
2017201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017201820192020
Listed2222
Joined····
No longer listed····
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $63k → $25k.

From the IRS filings of MATT LEINART FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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

MATT LEINART FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

42%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 35% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 91% · 2023 100% — 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

17% of MATT LEINART FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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

96% of MATT LEINART FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like MATT LEINART 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.

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04Profile & governance

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MATT LEINART 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 MATT LEINART FOUNDATION?
MATT LEINART FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,375 to it, the largest being JOHN & HILDA ARNOLD FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MATT LEINART FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $237,375 in grants to MATT LEINART FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MATT LEINART FOUNDATION?
JOHN & HILDA ARNOLD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MATT LEINART FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 10 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