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SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION

SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,098 to it, the largest being MARTHA & IRV KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($135,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$269k
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$550k
Net assets
$86k
15/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation does

Mission

The organization is committed to funding research and care for pediatric type 1 & 2 diabetes and to create awarness for both diseases. To help children lead healthier lives through diet and exercise.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization is committed to funding research and care for pediatric type 1 & 2 diabetes and to create awarness for both diseases. To help children lead healthier lives through diet and exercise.

    $70,000 spentof which $70,000 as grants
    31% of program spending
  2. The organization provides grants to further other programs for underpriveledged youth and teens.

    $154,175 spentof which $16,572 as grants
    69% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,175.

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 ($242k) Expenses 100 ($255k) Net assets 100 ($212k)2018 Revenue 140 ($337k) Expenses 137 ($349k) Net assets 95 ($200k)2019 Revenue 102 ($246k) Expenses 120 ($307k) Net assets 66 ($139k)2020 Revenue 63 ($152k) Expenses 65 ($166k) Net assets 59 ($125k)2021 Revenue 67 ($161k) Expenses 83 ($211k) Net assets 36 ($75k)2022 Revenue 204 ($493k) Expenses 156 ($398k) Net assets 80 ($170k)2023 Revenue 144 ($349k) Expenses 153 ($390k) Net assets 61 ($128k)2024 Revenue 125 ($303k) Expenses 134 ($341k) Net assets 42 ($90k)2025 Revenue 111 ($269k) Expenses 107 ($272k) Net assets 41 ($86k)
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Revenue (111)Expenses (107)Net assets (41)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 2021 to 2022, from $95k to $172k (+80%).

$214k
$202k
$142k
$145k
$95k
$172k
$131k
$91k
$87k
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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

69% of SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’17
−$11k
’18
−$61k
’19
−$14k
’20
−$50k
’21
$94k
’22
−$41k
’23
−$39k
’24
−$4k
’25
1.7
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.

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Listed888888887
Joined·+0+1+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·01000001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $53k → $106k.

4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 SUGAR RAY LEONARD 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

SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

26% 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 SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION.

25%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 62% · 2019 67% · 2020 54% · 2021 67% · 2022 33% · 2023 24% — broadly stable.

“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

40% of SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION'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

SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 8 states in all.

NY
MA
NJ
CA
MO
DE
TN
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 7%Fundraising 11%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

69%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION?
SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,098 to it, the largest being MARTHA & IRV KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($135,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $550,098 in grants to SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION?
MARTHA & IRV KAPLAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUGAR RAY LEONARD 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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