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Betty and John a Levin Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Betty and John a Levin Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$619k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$234k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$281kHealth$156kPhilanthropy$154kCivil Rights$80kEducation$10kHuman Services$7kRecreation & Sports$5kCrime & Legal$500Other$0
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $564k
$103,285
Median grant
3
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN CENTER$233,581
UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK$147,568
MOUNT SINAI ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$103,285
UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK$79,537
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$44,962
NYU LANGONE HOSPITAL$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Nyu Langone Health System

The board adopted mission statement is: the corporation is operated exclusively for the benefit of nyu langone hospitals and its affiliated organizations. in this capacity, the corporation, may, in order to improve the health and welfare…

Health
4
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Teamwork Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $233,581 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $44,962 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC+2 more: $2,250 · Arts & CultureMOUNT SINAI ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $133,322 · OtherMOUNT SINAI ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUJA FEDERATION NEW YORK: $79,537 · OtherUJA FEDERATION NEW YORK+6 more: $20,000 · Other+6 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $147,568 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FED…+2 more: $6,500 · PhilanthropyNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $10,000 · HealthDIGESTIVE DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Health1898 FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationTEAMWORK FOUNDATION INC: $5,105 · Youth DevelopmentIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$280,793Other$232,859Philanthropy$154,068Health$12,500Education$10,250Youth Development$5,105Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $233,581 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $147,568 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $44,962 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget1898 FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTEAMWORK FOUNDATION INC: $5,105 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIGESTIVE DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMobilization for Justice Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Betty and John a Levin Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Betty and John a Levin Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Betty and John a Levin Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Betty and John a Levin Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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