Funding search · EIN 843686034 · Fairfield, CT

Leonard Litz Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

165
grants reported
$3.0M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

advocacycommunitycovidlgbtrelief

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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  • Lamda Legal3 grants · $480,000
  • Triangle Community Center3 grants · $276,500
  • The Loft3 grants · $175,000
  • Centerlink3 grants · $150,000
  • City College Foundation2 grants · $135,000
  • Bridgeport Pride Center1 grant · $131,000
  • The Pride Network3 grants · $98,500
  • Odyssey Teen Camp3 grants · $90,000
  • Washington Blade Foundation3 grants · $77,500
  • Congregation Beit Simchat Torah2 grants · $70,000

Giving over time

$733,660
2022
$1.0M
2023
$1.3M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 165 grants.

  • $225,000

    Lamda Legal · New York, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $170,000

    Lamda Legal · New York, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $131,000

    Bridgeport Pride Center · Bridgeport, CT · 2024

    General support

  • $119,500

    Triangle Community Center · Norwalk, CT · 2024

    General support

  • $100,000

    City College Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $87,000

    Triangle Community Center · Norwalk, CT · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $85,000

    Lamda Legal · New York, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $70,000

    Triangle Community Center · Norwalk, CT · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $60,000

    The Loft · White Plains, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $60,000

    The Loft · White Plains, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $55,000

    The Loft · White Plains, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $52,200

    Glaad · New York, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $50,000

    Centerlink · Ft Lauderdale, FL · 2024

    General support

  • $50,000

    Centerlink · Fort Lauderdale, FL · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $50,000

    Centerlink · Fort Lauderdale, FL · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $40,000

    Odyssey Teen Camp · Ardsley, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $39,000

    The Pride Network · Newark, NJ · 2024

    General support

  • $35,000

    Congregation Beit Simchat Torah · New York, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $35,000

    City College Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $35,000

    Congregation Beit Simchat Torah · New York, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $32,500

    Washington Blade Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $32,000

    The Pride Network · Newark, NJ · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $30,000

    New Haven Pride Center · New Haven, CT · 2024

    General support

  • $30,000

    In Our Own Voices · Albany, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $30,000

    The Center Nyc · New York, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $30,000

    In Our Own Voices · Albany, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $27,500

    Ali-Forney Center · New York, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $27,500

    The Pride Network · Newark, NJ · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $26,510

    Pace University Lgbtqia Center · Pleasantville, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $25,000

    Hetrick-Martin Institute · New York, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $25,000

    Milwauke Lgbt Community Center · Milwaukee, WI · 2024

    General support

  • $25,000

    National Center for Lesbian Rights · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General support

  • $25,000

    Odyssey Teen Camp · Ardsley, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $25,000

    Outright Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2024

    General support

  • $25,000

    Social & Environmental Entrepeneurs Eqct · Calabasas, CA · 2024

    General support

  • $25,000

    Eastern Pa Trans Equality Project · Orefield, PA · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $25,000

    Hetrick Martin Institute · New York, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $25,000

    Kids in Crisis · Cos Cob, CT · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $25,000

    National Center for Lesbian Rights · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $25,000

    Washington Blade Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $25,000

    Eastern Pa Trans Equality Project · Orefield, PA · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $25,000

    Odyssey Teen Camp · Ardsley, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $25,000

    Out in the Open · Brattleboro, VT · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $23,000

    Pace University Lgbtqia Center · Pleasantville, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $22,500

    Norwalk Conservatory of the Arts · Norwalk, CT · 2024

    General support

  • $20,000

    Mazzoni Center · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    General support

  • $20,000

    Washington Blade Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

    General support

  • $20,000

    Youthpride · Providence, RI · 2024

    General support

  • $20,000

    Brooklyn Community Pride Center · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $20,000

    Westchester Jewish Community Services · White Plains, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $20,000

    Ali-Forney Center · New York, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $20,000

    Outright Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $17,000

    Middletown Pride · Middletown, CT · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    National Lgbtq Task Force · Washington, DC · 2024

    General support

  • $15,000

    Roxbury Youthworks · Roxbury Crossing, MA · 2024

    General support

  • $15,000

    Sam and Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth · Chatham, NJ · 2024

    General support

  • $15,000

    The Frederick Center of Maryland · Frederick, MD · 2024

    General support

  • $15,000

    Victory Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    General support

  • $15,000

    Freestate Justice · Baltimore, MD · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    Jqy · New York, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    Mass Trans Political Coalition Co Bagly · Boston, MA · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    New Haven Pride Center · New Haven, CT · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    Norwalk Conservatory of the Arts · Norwalk, CT · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    Sam and Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth · Chatham, NJ · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    Tmi Project · Kingston, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    Joy Baltimore · Baltimore, MD · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    Nlgja · Washington, DC · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    Power Safe Place · Front Royal, VA · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    Prideworks · White Plains, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    Rockland County Pride Center · Nyack, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $15,000

    The Gay & Lesbian Review · Boston, MA · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $12,910

    Cuny Foundation Office of Institutional Advvancement and Communications · New York, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $11,250

    Middletown Pride · Middletown, CT · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,500

    Princeton Senior Resource Center · Princeton, NJ · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    Aclu-Ct · Hartford, CT · 2024

    General support

  • $10,000

    Bayard Rustin Community Center · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    General support

  • $10,000

    Fund for the City of New York New Pride Agenda · New York, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $10,000

    Hibiscus Rose Therapy Open Collective Foundation · Covina, CA · 2024

    General support

  • $10,000

    Mama Dragons · Syracuse, UT · 2024

    General support

  • $10,000

    Middletown Pride · Middletown, CT · 2024

    General support

  • $10,000

    The Gay and Lesbian Review · Boston, MA · 2024

    General support

  • $10,000

    Tmi Project Starling Productions · Kingston, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $10,000

    Trans Community of New England · Boston, MA · 2024

    General support

  • $10,000

    Fairness West Virginia · Charleston, WV · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    Nyc Doe Co Pflag Nyc · Washington, DC · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    The Welcome Project Pa · Hatboro, PA · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    Aclu-Ct · Washington, DC · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    Brooklyn Community Pride Center · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    Edge New Jersey · Morris Plains, NJ · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    Huge Lane Wellness Foundation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    Hundson Valley Lgbtq Center · Kingston, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    Maine Family Planning · Augusta, ME · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    Pride Center of New Jersey · Highland Park, NJ · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    Rock Steady Farms · Millerton, NY · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $10,000

    Youthpride · Providence, RI · 2022

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $9,000

    Outstanding Life Co Multicultural AIDS Coalition · Roxbury, MA · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $8,200

    Glaad · New York, NY · 2023

    Community grant/covid relief/lgbt advocacy

  • $7,500

    Black Rock Theater · Fairfield, CT · 2024

    General support

  • $6,050

    Interact · Sudbury, MA · 2024

    General support

  • $5,000

    Bridgeport Film Festival · Bridgeport, CT · 2024

    General support

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