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.

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

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