Funding search · EIN 363204862 · Bronx, NY

Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation

Name: Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

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

161
grants reported: $2.3M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Bronx Documentary Center4 grants · $200,000
Fotofest International4 grants · $120,000
Nyc Salt4 grants · $115,000
William Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Co International Center for Photography4 grants · $110,000
Eddie Adams Workshop Organization4 grants · $105,000
United Photo Industries4 grants · $105,000
Museum of Contemporary Photography4 grants · $100,000
Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts-Dba Blue Sky Gallery4 grants · $95,750
Center for Photography at Woodstock3 grants · $91,500
En Foco4 grants · $65,000

Giving over time

$503,000

2022

$566,674

2023

$514,300

2024

$692,570

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 161 grants.

$51,500
Center for Photography at Woodstock · Woodstock, NY · 2023
General support
$50,000
Bronx Documentary Center · Bronx, NY · 2025
General support
$50,000
Bronx Documentary Center · Bronx, NY · 2024
General support
$50,000
Bronx Documentary Center · Bronx, NY · 2023
General support
$50,000
Bronx Documentary Center · Bronx, NY · 2022
General support
$35,000
William Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Co International Center for Photography · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$30,000
Fotofest International · Houston, TX · 2025
Genral support
$30,000
Nyc Salt · New York, NY · 2025
Gereral support
$30,000
Fotofest International · Houston, TX · 2024
Genral support
$30,000
Nyc Salt · New York, NY · 2024
Gereral support
$30,000
Fotofest International · Houston, TX · 2023
Genral support
$30,000
Nyc Salt · New York, NY · 2023
Gereral support
$30,000
Eddie Adams Workshop Organization · Jeffersonville, NY · 2022
General support
$30,000
Fotofest International · Houston, TX · 2022
Genral support
$30,000
Museum of the City of New York · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$30,000
United Photo Industries · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General support
$25,000
Center for Photography at Woodstock · Kingston, NY · 2025
General support
$25,000
Eddie Adams Workshop Organization · Jeffersonville, NY · 2025
General support
$25,000
International Center for Photography · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$25,000
Museum of Contemporary Photography · Chicago, IL · 2025
General support
$25,000
Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts-Dba Blue Sky Gallery · Portland, OR · 2025
General support
$25,000
United Photo Industries · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
General support
$25,000
William Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Co International Center for Photography · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$25,000
Eddie Adams Workshop Organization · Jeffersonville, NY · 2024
General support
$25,000
Museum of Contemporary Photography · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$25,000
Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts-Dba Blue Sky Gallery · Portland, OR · 2024
General support
$25,000
United Photo Industries · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
$25,000
William Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Co International Center for Photography · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$25,000
Eddie Adams Workshop Organization · Jeffersonville, NY · 2023
General support
$25,000
International Center for Photograph · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$25,000
Museum of Contemporary Photography · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$25,000
United Photo Industries · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General support
$25,000
Museum of Contemporary Photography · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$25,000
Nyc Salt · New York, NY · 2022
Gereral support
$25,000
William Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Co International Center for Photography · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$23,750
Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts-Dba Blue Sky Gallery · Portland, OR · 2023
General support
$22,000
Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts-Dba Blue Sky Gallery · Portland, OR · 2022
General support
$20,000
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture · Washington, DC · 2025
General support
$20,000
En Foco · Bronx, NY · 2022
General support
$20,000
Katherine E Nash Gallery University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
General support
$16,417
Fractured Atlas (Back To Lab & Two By Two Media) · Hartsdale, NY · 2023
General support
$15,000
En Foco · Bronx, NY · 2025
General support
$15,000
Penumbra Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$15,000
Studio Museum in Harlem · New York, NY · 2025
General suppot
$15,000
The Vii Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$15,000
Visual Studies Workshop · Rochester, NY · 2025
General support
$15,000
Center for Photography at Woodstock · Kingston, NY · 2024
General support
$15,000
En Foco · Bronx, NY · 2024
General support
$15,000
Houston Center for Photography · Houston, TX · 2024
General support
$15,000
Kioo Project · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$15,000
Penumbra Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$15,000
Studio Museum in Harlem · New York, NY · 2024
General suppot
$15,000
Center Santa Fe-the Project · Santa Fe, NM · 2023
General support
$15,000
En Foco · Bronx, NY · 2023
General support
$15,000
Houston Center for Photography · Houston, TX · 2023
General support
$15,000
Penumbra Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$15,000
Studio Museum in Harlem · New York, NY · 2023
General suppot
$15,000
Brooklyn Arts Council · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General support
$15,000
Case Art Fund · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$15,000
Center Santa Fe-the Project · Santa Fe, NM · 2022
General support
$15,000
Las Foto Project of Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General support
$15,000
National Museum of Mexican Art · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$15,000
Proof Media for Social Justice · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$15,000
Tilt Institute for Contemporary Image · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General support
$14,500
National Museum of Mexican Art · Chicago, IL · 2025
General support
$12,500
Silver Eye Center for Photography (Radial Survey Vol 3) · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
General support
$12,000
Bethel Wood Center for the Arts · Liberty, NY · 2023
General support
$12,000
Penumbra Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$11,400
Magnum Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$10,600
Magnum Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$10,300
Evanston Art Center · Evanston, IL · 2025
General support
$10,000
Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$10,000
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts · Liberty, NY · 2025
General support
$10,000
Colorado Photographic Arts Center · Denver, CO · 2025
General support
$10,000
Colusa County Arts Council · Colusa, CA · 2025
General support
$10,000
Four Youth Production · Wilmington, DE · 2025
General support
$10,000
Houston Center for Photography · Houston, TX · 2025
General support
$10,000
International League of Conservation Photographers · Arlington, VA · 2025
General support
$10,000
Josephine Herrick Project · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$10,000
Las Foto Project of Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
General support
$10,000
Maysles Documentary Center · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$10,000
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art · Memphis, TN · 2025
General support
$10,000
Myriad USA · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$10,000
Silver Eye Center for Photography (Radial Survey Vol 3) · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
General support
$10,000
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology · Otis, OR · 2025
General support
$10,000
Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
First exposures academic year mentorship program
$10,000
Tilt Institute for Contemporary Image · Philadelphia, PA · 2025
General support
$10,000
Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts · Liberty, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
Milwaukee Art Museum · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
True story: photography, journalism and media exhibit
$10,000
National Museum of Mexican Art · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$10,000
Photojournalism Archive Project · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$10,000
Visual Studies Workshop · Rochester, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$10,000
Curtis Legacy Foundation (Descendants Project) · Buena Vista, CO · 2023
General support
$10,000
Josephine Herrick Project · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$10,000
Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
General support
$10,000
New York Foundation for the Arts (Ba Van Sise) · Long Island City, NY · 2023
General support
$10,000
Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$10,000
Bethel Wood Center for the Arts · Liberty, NY · 2022
General support

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