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Craig & Carrie Levering Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $302k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARKS SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $1,105,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $525,000 |
| THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $155,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER | $147,200 |
| GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHUR | $5,000 |
| LONESTAR FAMILIES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Southern Methodist University9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +57%- HSHOCKADAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $820k · revenue +44%
- LSLONE STAR FAMILIES FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +334%
Funded once
- TCTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALLone grant, 2022 · $96k · revenue +13%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXASone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
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.
South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.
See Disclosure Above.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
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…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
Letourneau university is a comprehensive institution of christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pilgrimage Historical Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds PILGRIMAGE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Craig & Carrie Levering Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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