Leonette Foundation Grant

The Minnie B. Leonette Family Foundation, established in 1994, focuses on innovative solutions for children and seniors in Northern Nevada. It supports projects that improve quality of life, emphasizing creativity and compassion. The Foundation prioritizes grants for private non-profits and public agencies that address the needs of those who may not qualify for public aid, aiming for sustainable positive change. Grants are typically one year but may be renewed based on satisfactory progress.

The Minnie B. Leonette Family Foundation, commonly referred to as the Leonette Foundation, is a philanthropic organization established in 1994. It was created by the estate plan of Minnie B. Leonette, a longtime resident of Nevada.
Our Purpose
The Leonette Foundation's purpose is to encourage inventive solutions to problems in contemporary society focusing on children and seniors in Northern Nevada.
There is no intention of duplicating the public sector's efforts but to augment those efforts and assist people who have fallen through the cracks.
We seek to plant seeds of positive innovation, with the goal of learning from what works, replacing what doesn't, and consistently increasing quality. For seniors, we seek to improve medical services by addressing the concerns of aging and focusing on overall quality of life. For children and youth, we seek to enrich health and well-being in all key areas: physical, emotional, intellectual, and economical.
Program Priorities
In keeping with Mrs. Leonette’s wishes, the Foundation will accept grant requests in the following categories:
Aging, Centers & Services: Innovative approaches to improvement in the quality of life for senior citizens.Children & Youth Services: Enriching the health and well-being of emotionally, physically, economically, or intellectually deprived children who might not otherwise qualify for help from the public sector.
Within these categories, the directors act electively. Grants are made for new and innovative projects that appear to have the greatest feasibility and significance. The feasibility of a project includes the extent to which the leadership, setting, scale, and design are adequate to achieve its goals. The significance of a project includes the importance of the issues addressed and the potential of the project as a model, as a source of permanent institutional reform, or as a contribution to public social policy. In each of the priority categories, The Leonette Foundation will pay particular attention to projects sponsored by the groups it is designed to serve.
Grant Details
Grants usually are for one year and, in many cases, may be renewed for additional years, if the project is making satisfactory progress in the opinion of the majority of the directors.

Eligibility

The Foundation makes grants to private, non-profit organizations and public agencies to carry out projects that will benefit needy children and seniors located in Northern Nevada, specifically the Reno, Sparks and Lake Tahoe areas.

Ineligibility

The Leonette Foundation does not make grants to individuals.