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David M Levy Family Foundation at a glance

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David M Levy Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$277k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$96k
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 2024.

Religion$689kEducation$270kHuman Services$223kYouth Development$183kHealth$34kPhilanthropy$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $137k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
$3,600
Median grant
2
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LARCHWOOD SYNAGOGUE$95,946
OHEL SIMCHA SUPER FUND$44,000
DSN COMMUNITY CENTER$36,000
HILLEL YESHIVA$26,000
SYNAGOGUE OF DEAL$18,000
ILAN HIGH SCHOOL$12,700
SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM$7,200
CHABAD OF THE SHORE$5,200
CONGREGATION OHEL YISHAK$5,200
HATZALAH EMS OF THE JERSEY SHORE$4,200
EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE$4,051
SEPHARDIC DIVISION OF CHAIM MEDICAL$3,600
NEW YORK CANCER CENTER$3,600
CONGREGATION MAGEN DAVID OF WEST DEAL$3,000
OHR HALACHA INC$3,000
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 (FY17–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Israel Medical Fund: $500 → 17%Sephardic Bikur Holim: $15k → 20%Sephardic Bikur Holim: $10k → 20%Sephardic Bikur Holim: $8k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $7k → 20%Sephardic Bikur Holim: $202 → 20%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 29 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
42

Total granted

$1.3M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
0%

Still filing today

24%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • DS
    DEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $158k · revenue +134%
  • IH
    ILAN HIGH SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +66%
  • SC
    SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $14k
  • ST
    Sephardic Torah Center Kollel
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
5
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
6
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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7
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
8
University of Judaism Foundation
—
9
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
10
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
11
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

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12
International Sephardic Educational & Cultural Center in Jerusalem

The sec is dedicated to strengthening jewish indentiy for youth and young adults, and to building a new generation of spiritual and community leaders. from our historic campus in the old city of jerusalem to our various diaspora branches,…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Shehebar Sephardic Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Deal Endowment Fund 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

24 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. 24 of the 79 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hillel Yeshiva: $212,350 · OtherHillel YeshivaLARCHWOOD SYNAGOGUE INC: $201,267 · OtherLARCHWOOD SYNAGOGUE INCOHEL SIMCHA SUPER FUND: $99,000 · OtherOHEL SIMCHA SUPER FUNDEdmond J Safra Synagogue: $54,025 · OtherEdmond J Safra SynagogueSYNAGOGUE OF DEAL: $54,000 · OtherSYNAGOGUE OF DEALIndividual grant recipient: $36,301 · Other+55 more: $291,145 · Other+55 moreDEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC: $158,000 · Youth DevelopmentDEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CE…SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $133,126 · Youth DevelopmentSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOU…+1 more: $1,800 · Youth DevelopmentILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $97,236 · EducationTHE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $5,200 · Education+3 more: $3,501 · EducationSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $40,175 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesNew York Cancer Center Inc: $18,000 · HealthYAD DAVID INC: $5,200 · InternationalEZER MIZION: $1,800 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KNEES ADES INC: $1,002 · International+1 more: $250 · InternationalDEAL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $6,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $501 · Philanthropy+1 more: $101 · Philanthropy
Other$948,088Youth Development$292,926Education$105,937Human Services$40,675Health$18,000International$8,252Philanthropy$7,102

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC: $158,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $133,126 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $97,236 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $40,175 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Cancer Center Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDEAL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $6,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetYAD DAVID INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOhel Torah: $3,600 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA KETER TORAH INC: $2,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEZER MIZION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILEAD EXPERIENCE INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROPEL NETWORK INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKOLLEL OHR MOSHE INC: $1,303 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KNEES ADES INC: $1,002 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIMAGINE ACADEMY: $1,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH CHAIM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEPHARDIC INSTITUTE SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEHEBAR SEPHARDIC CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $101 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBET YAAKOV OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $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.

  • Who funds DEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ILAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds New York Cancer Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds DEAL ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds YAD DAVID INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Ohel Torah ↗
  • Who funds THE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗

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.

Isaac & Marjorie Gind…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Samuel & Mollie Jemal…The Ralph S Gindi Fam…E R G FoundationThe Amin and Lillian …Jewish Communal FundThe Howard Hoffman & …The Setton FoundationChehebar Family Found…Haddad Brands Family …The Mamiye Foundation…
Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation IncNY43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Samuel & Mollie Jemal Foundation Co Jem Realty · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · E R G Foundation · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Setton Foundation · Chehebar Family Foundation · Haddad Brands Family Foundation · The Mamiye Foundation Inc

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 David M Levy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David M Levy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Bet Yaakov of the Jersey Shore Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to David M Levy Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to David M Levy Family 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 79 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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