Leaves of Grass Fund

Leaves of Grass Fund (LOGF) is a private family foundation making grants to charities, with a focus on the Boston area and national left-of-center groups.

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3), Private Foundation
Issue Areas: Multi-Issue Advocacy
Formation:

1987

President:

Henry S. White

Location: Lincoln, MA View on map
Tax ID: 22-2824793
Most Recent Filing: 2024
Budget (2024): Assets: $34,188,534 Revenue: $3,483,061 Expenses: $1,819,622

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    The organization and its leadership operate with a very low profile with no public website or social media pages and limited publicly available information.

    Organization

    Leaves of Grass Fund is a non-profit organization that funds a variety of charitable and left-of-center organizations with a geographical focus on the Massachusetts area. 1

    Grants are many and relatively small and are made to left-of-center organizations like Planned Parenthood, ACLU, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Center for International Environmental Law, Earthjustice, Fair Elections Center, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Rock the Vote, and Southern Poverty Law Center. 2

    LOGF has no website or social media site. It does not respond to unsolicited requests for funding.

    Leadership

    Trustees of Leaves of Grass Fund include Henry S. White; Barbara G. White; Eleanor Herzog, a developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice; James Herzog, senior scholar in child psychiatry at Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Noah Herzog; Eve Robbins, daughter of Eleanor and James Herzog and a freelance writer and editor; Jared S. White; and Miranda White. 34

    Finances

    Leaves of Grass Fund revenue in 2018 was $2,145,465 sourced from the sale of assets and income on investments offset by expenses of $2,320,108 of which $1,700,533 were grants. 5 Assets at the end of the year totaled $33,144,165. 6

    Leaves of Grass Fund filed a taxable income return paying $6,100 in taxes on capital gains in 2018. 7

    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2024 $34,188,534 $3,483,061 $1,819,622 View
    2023 $33,084,467 $1,490,601 $1,468,215 View
    2022 $29,711,237 $156,924 $2,157,872 View
    2021 $37,570,705 $3,227,738 $2,393,611 View
    2020 $37,399,786 $827,294 $2,453,512 View

    Prior year filings: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

    Expenses Detail

    Grant Activity

    All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $19,558,415
    • Number of Grants: 1,180
    • Number of Recipients: 312

    Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $250,0002020 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Inc.CHARITABLE
    $195,0002021 International Rescue Committee – MinnesotaCHARITABLE
    $150,0002024 International Rescue Committee – MinnesotaCHARITABLE
    $148,0002020 International Rescue Committee, Inc.CHARITABLE
    $130,0002022 International Rescue Committee – MinnesotaCHARITABLE
    $115,0002023 The Greater Boston Food Bank, Inc.CHARITABLE
    $100,0002024 Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterCHARITABLE
    $100,0002023 Breakthrough InstituteCHARITABLE
    $100,0002022 Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterCHARITABLE
    $100,0002021 Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterCHARITABLE
    $100,0002021 President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCHARITABLE
    $100,0002020 Harvard College Class of 1927CHARITABLE
    $65,0002021 Marin Agricultural Land TrustCHARITABLE
    $60,0002024 Allen-Stevenson SchoolCHARITABLE
    $60,0002024 Fair Elections CenterCHARITABLE
    $60,0002022 Weill Medical College of Cornell UniversityCHARITABLE
    $55,0002021 Food Bank For New York CityCHARITABLE
    $50,0002024 Marin Agricultural Land TrustCHARITABLE
    $50,0002024 Southern Poverty Law Center IncCHARITABLE
    $50,0002023 IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INCCHARITABLE
    $50,0002023 International Rescue Committee – MinnesotaCHARITABLE
    $50,0002023 Wildlife Alliance IncCHARITABLE
    $50,0002022 Food Bank For New York CityCHARITABLE
    $50,0002022 La Food BankCHARITABLE
    $50,0002022 Marin Agricultural Land TrustCHARITABLE

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    References

    1. “Leaves of Grass Fund.” Big Database. Accessed May 28, 2020. http://www.bigdatabase.com/Big-DB/USFoundation-profiles/LEAVES%20OF%20GRASS%20FUND-222824793.HTML.
    2. “Leaves of Grass Fund”. Return of Private Foundation (Form 990-PF). 2018. Part XV, Line 3.
    3. “Eve Herzog, Jack Robbins.” The New York Times. The New York Times. Accessed May 29, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/fashion/weddings/17Herzog.html
    4. “Eve Herzog Robbins.” Linked In. Accessed May 28, 2020. https://www.linkedin.com/in/eve-herzog-robbins-45a45322/.
    5. “Leaves of Grass Fund”. Return of Private Foundation (Form 990-PF). 2018. Part I, Lines 12, 26, 25.
    6. “Leaves of Grass Fund”. Return of Private Foundation (Form 990-PF). 2018. Line C.
    7. “Leaves of Grass Fund”. Exempt Organization Business Income Tax Return (Form 990-T) 2018. Part IV, Line 44.