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Charles Levy Foundation

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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$60kHuman Services$27kEducation$20kCivil Rights$4kArts & Culture$4kRecreation & Sports$3kInternational$2kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,300
Median grant
2
States reached
$84k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$6,800
Greenwood House$3,300
Main Line Reform Temple$1,800
The Jewish Federation$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%International Rescue: $1k → 12%Shir Ami: $7k → 6%Main Line Reform Temple: $2k → 7%University of Pennsylvania: $1k → 22%American Jewish Committee: $1k → 17%Howard University: $1k → 14%Princeton University: $1k → 11%Middlebury College: $1k → 9%University of Pennsylvania: $1k → 22%American Jewish Committee: $1k → 17%Princeton University: $1k → 11%Middlebury College: $1k → 9%University of Pennsylvania: $1k → 22%American Jewish Committee: $1k → 17%Princeton University: $1k → 11%Middlebury College: $1k → 9%Martha's Vineyard Museum: $3k → 8%University of Pennsylvania: $1k → 22%Princeton University: $1k → 11%Middlebury College: $1k → 9%University of Pennsylvania: $1k → 22%Institute for Advanced Study: $2k → 11%Middlebury College: $1k → 9%University of Pennsylvania: $1k → 22%Friends of Princeton Fencing: $1k → 11%Middlebury College: $1k → 9%Greenwood House: $5k → 11%Greenwood House: $4k → 11%Greenwood House: $3k → 11%Har Sinai: $6k → 11%Greenwood House: $3k → 11%Har Sinai: $6k → 11%Greenwood House: $3k → 11%Har Sinai: $6k → 11%Greenwood House: $3k → 11%Har Sinai: $5k → 11%Greenwood House: $3k → 11%Har Sinai: $5k → 11%Greenwood House: $2k → 11%Har Sinai: $5k → 11%Greenwood House: $1k → 11%Har Sinai: $3k → 11%The Jewish Federation: $3k → 11%The Jewish Federation: $3k → 11%The Jewish Federation: $3k → 11%The Jewish Federation: $2k → 11%The Jewish Federation: $2k → 11%The Jewish Federation: $1k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
DC
OK
GA
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$100k · 12 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$100k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+11%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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EducationHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +26%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +47%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +5%

Funded once

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    MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +11%
  • INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +98%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +11%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

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

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide educational services, see schedule o.

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University; the most unlike its peers is Task Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen 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

18 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. 18 of the 32 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $36,790 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Jewish Federation: $15,670 · OtherThe Jewish FederationIndividual grant recipient: $6,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFriends of Princeton Fencing: $3,000 · Other+12 more: $5,750 · Other+12 moreGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED: $26,675 · HealthGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR…+1 more: $200 · HealthPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $6,000 · EducationPresident and Fel…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE U…The Trustees of Princeton University: $4,200 · EducationThe Trustees of P…TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $1,150 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE L…THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · Education+3 more: $1,100 · Education+3 moreAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $3,700 · Civil RightsMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $899 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $1,750 · Science & TechFARM NECK FOUNDATION INC: $500 · PhilanthropyMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$68,010Health$26,875Education$19,450Civil Rights$3,700Arts & Culture$3,399Science & Tech$1,750Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED: $26,675 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $4,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $899 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARM NECK FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLEY'S FUND INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $100 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…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Charles Levy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Levy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Charles Levy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Charles Levy Foundation 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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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