· Private foundation
Cummins-Levenstein Charitable Found
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k19 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| THE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN CTY | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION | $22,688 |
| TREASURE COAST SYMPHONY | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER | $15,000 |
| STRINGS FOR STUDENTS | $15,000 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHE | $13,000 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF NEW | $10,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS | $7,500 |
| THEATER LAB SCHOOL OF THE DRAMATIC | $7,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| MARTHA'S TABLE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
34 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $502k · revenue +72%
- TCTHE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +43%
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC7× · 2018–2025 · $102k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $45k
- LALOUISIANA ABORTION FUNDone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +2%
- IIFWHENHOWone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -18%
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.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.
Serve as a leader, alongside diverse coalitions, in identifying and reforming flaws and inequities in the criminal legal system, and redressing systemic racism, and ensuring that its members and others in the criminal defense bar are fully…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…
Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The Legal Accountability Projects mission is to ensure that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not.
Legal aid of western ohio, inc. (lawo) is a non-profit law firm that champions equity and justice through client-centered community collaboration and transformative legal advocacy.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 58 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 THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST DESCENTS ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS ↗
- Who funds KEEP PUSHING INC ↗
- Who funds Music 4 Miracles Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SCRAG MOUNTAIN MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN JUDGES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds REGENT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE MUSIC NOLA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cummins-Levenstein Charitable Found 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.
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.