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Cummins-Levenstein Charitable Found at a glance

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Cummins-Levenstein Charitable Found

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$292k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$652kFood & Nutrition$417kArts & Culture$349kCrime & Legal$270kHuman Services$149kCivil Rights$117kHealth$99kRecreation & Sports$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$10,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF NEW$10,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS$7,500
THEATER LAB SCHOOL OF THE DRAMATIC$7,000
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL$6,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FACETS: $5k → 6%ALIVE: $5k → 9%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $20k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
NM
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 34 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
17

Total granted

$2.0M
$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+33%

Still filing today

68%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $502k · revenue +72%
  • TC
    THE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +43%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $102k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $45k
  • I
    IFWHENHOW
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -18%
  • LA
    LOUISIANA ABORTION FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +2%
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
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
2
Women's Law Project

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…

Civil Rights
3
Nijc Nfp

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.

Crime & Legal
4
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Inc

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…

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5
American Law Institute

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…

Crime & Legal
6
Louisiana State Bar Association

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…

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7
Association of Legal Administrators

Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.

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8
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
9
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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10
Legal Accountability Project

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
12
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $125,000 · OtherTHE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INCTREASURE COAST SYMPHONY INC: $115,000 · OtherTREASURE COAST SYMPHONY INCSTRINGS FOR STUDENTS INCORPORATED: $115,000 · OtherSTRINGS FOR STUDENTS INCORPORATEDSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NO: $90,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NOIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTSKEEP PUSHING INC: $45,000 · OtherMusic 4 Miracles Inc: $41,200 · OtherMARTIN COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC: $29,000 · Other+20 more: $208,750 · Other+20 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $502,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULAN…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $88,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG+2 more: $20,000 · EducationCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $101,500 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOO…TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC: $90,000 · Food & NutritionTREASURE COAST F…MARTHA'S TABLE INC: $73,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE I…VERMONT FOODBANK: $50,000 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODBANK+1 more: $10,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN C…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $55,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUST…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN JUDGES: $22,500 · Civil RightsNATIONAL A…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $15,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL I…IFWHENHOW: $15,000 · Civil RightsIFWHENHOWNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $7,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $15,000 · Civil Rights+4 moreAMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION: $60,188 · Arts & CultureSCRAG MOUNTAIN MUSIC INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMAKE MUSIC NOLA: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesALIVE Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesFACETS CARES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE: $4,000 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER: $3,000 · Human ServicesFIRST DESCENTS: $57,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$863,950Education$610,000Food & Nutrition$324,500Civil Rights$204,500Arts & Culture$97,688Human Services$67,000Recreation & Sports$57,500

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 budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $502,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $101,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $88,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $73,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION: $60,188 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS: $57,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS: $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMusic 4 Miracles Inc: $41,200 over 3y, 28% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSCRAG MOUNTAIN MUSIC INC: $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMARTIN COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC: $29,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN JUDGES: $22,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIFWHENHOW: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA ABORTION FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGENT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE MUSIC NOLA: $7,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALIVE Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFACETS CARES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDGES AND LAWYERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
  • 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 NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA ABORTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds REGENT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE MUSIC NOLA ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA9.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cummins-Levenstein Charitable Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cummins-Levenstein Charitable Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 58 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home