The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation is a charitable foundation founded by Farmers Insurance Group co-founder Thomas E. Leavey

Thomas E. Leavey

Thomas E. Leavey was an American businessman and philanthropist. Born in Ferndale, Humboldt County, California to Irish immigrants, he served as a lieutenant in the U. S. Army in the final days of World War I. In 1922, he received a bachelors degree from the University of Santa Clara. He...

 and his wife Dorothy E. Risley Leavey

Dorothy Leavey

Dorothy E. Risley Leavey was an American philanthropist and co-founder of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation.Dorothy Risley was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1897. She grew up in Cleveland, Chicago and Butte, Montana. She attended the University of Montana and worked as a legal secretary...

 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

Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose...

, Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in Los Angeles, California, United States...

, Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

, the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

, St. John's Health Center, California Hospital Medical Center

California Hospital Medical Center

California Hospital Medical Center is a hospital in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is currently operated by Catholic Healthcare West.-Services:The emergency department at CHMC is certified as a level II trauma center for adults.-History:...

, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge

Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge

The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge is a national, non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian educational organization, founded in 1949. The Foundation is located adjacent to the Valley Forge National Historical Park, near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, U.S., and sits on ground that was once part of...

, the United Negro College Fund

United Negro College Fund

The United Negro College Fund is an American philanthropic organization that fundraises college tuition money for black students and general scholarship funds for 39 private historically black colleges and universities. The UNCF was incorporated on April 25, 1944 by Frederick D. Patterson , Mary...

, Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, formerly Childrens Hospital Society, is a private, non-profit teaching hospital in Los Angeles. The hospital provides multidisciplinary care to over 93,000 children each year, with physician expertise in over 100 pediatric specialties and subspecialties.The hospital...

, and the Los Angeles County Music Center. The foundation also donated $10 million to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to build a new cathedral

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, also called "COLA" and the Los Angeles Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California, United States...

 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 Leavey Center at Georgetown University, known as the student center, provides recreational and meeting places for students, faculty and staff, as well as a 146 room hotel and conference center, the University bookstore and various eating facilities
• The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom in the Department of Government at Georgetown University
• The Leavey School of Business
  Leavey School of Business
  The SCU Leavey School of Business is a private academic institution at Santa Clara University. It is one of the professional schools of Santa Clara University. The School of Business was founded in 1923 and accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business thirty years later...
  
   at Santa Clara University
• The Leavey Activities Center
  Leavey Center
  Leavey Center, also known as the Leavey Activities Center or occasionally by its old nickname the Toso Pavilion, is Santa Clara University's indoor basketball arena in Santa Clara, California. It is home to the Santa Clara University Broncos Division I Basketball and Volleyball Teams...
  
   at Santa Clara University is an indoor basketball arena which also houses athletic department offices and an academic center
• The Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles is an education and research center at Loyola Marymount University
• The Dorothy and Thomas E. Leavey Center and the Leavey Residence Halls at Loyola Marymount University
• The Dorothy E. Leavey Family Resource Center at the Assistance League in Hollywood
• The Leavey Library is one of the two main undergraduate libraries at USC
• The Dorothy and Thomas Leavey Cancer Center at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
  Northridge Hospital Medical Center
  Northridge Hospital Medical Center is a hospital in the Northridge town of Los Angeles, California, USA. It is currently operated by Catholic Healthcare West.-History:...
  
  , Northridge, California
• The Dorothy and Thomas Leavey Commons on the Chalon Campus of Mount St. Mary's College
  Mount St. Mary's College
  Mount St. Mary's College is a private, independent, Catholic liberal arts college, primarily for women, in Los Angeles, California. The college was founded in 1925 by the Sisters of St...
  
   in Los Angeles
• The Leavey Awards honor excellence in private enterprise education and are administered by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
  Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
  The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge is a national, non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian educational organization, founded in 1949. The Foundation is located adjacent to the Valley Forge National Historical Park, near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, U.S., and sits on ground that was once part of...
  
  

The foundation headquarters is in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, California, and is headed by Kathleen Leavey McCarthy, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy Leavey.