Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation

The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation is a charitable foundation founded by Farmers Insurance Group co-founder Thomas E. Leavey and his wife Dorothy E. Risley Leavey in 1952. In the fifteen year period from 1981 to 1994, the Leavey Foundation donated more than $100 million to institutions and charitable causes. Some of the recipients of the foundations gifts are: Santa Clara University, Loyola Marymount University, Georgetown University, the University of Southern California, St. John's Health Center, California Hospital Medical Center, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, the United Negro College Fund, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Music Center. The foundation also donated $10 million to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to build a new cathedral to replace the Cathedral of St. Vibiana.

The Leavey Foundation often keeps its donations anonymous but there are several buildings and programs that now carry the Leavey name:

The foundation headquarters is in Los Angeles, California, and is headed by Kathleen Leavey McCarthy, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy Leavey.

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