· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Craig & Carrie Levering Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Craig & Carrie Levering Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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