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David R and Frances F Levin 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.

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Arts & Culture$71kReligion$43kFood & Nutrition$35kHuman Services$30kYouth Development$20kEducation$20kMembership Benefit$15kInternational$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $123k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP$20,000
T OF L INC$20,000
PGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES$15,000
JEWISH CEMETARY & BURIAL ASSOC$15,000
412 FOOD RESCUE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER$12,500
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PGH$10,000
OUR GIVING KITCHEN PITTSBURGH$5,000
EDGEWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $15k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

Our vision is a flourishing jewish community where everyone feels included, supported and inspired. in order to accomplish this vision we cultivate resources, connect people and collaborate across the community to live and fulfill jewish…

Philanthropy
2
Pittsburgh Food Policy Council

The mission of the pittsburgh food policy council is to build a food system that benefits our communities, economy, and environment in ways that are just, equitable and sustainable. driven by community-led solutions, we bring together over…

Food & Nutrition
3
The Friends of the Pittsburgh Institutions
4
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
5
Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…

Arts & Culture
6
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
7
Pittsburgh Kollel Bais Yitzchok

Advanced rabbinical training in talmud, jewish philosophy, outreach to the community.

8
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services
9
Western Pennsylvania Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Inc

The western pennsylvania jewish sports hall of fame ("wpjshf") educates jewish youth as to their heritage vis-a-vis jewish men and women who have made significant contributions to society through sports and likewise educates the general…

Philanthropy
10
Penn Hillel

The mission of penn hillel is to identify and prioritize the important issues and needs of our local and global community, then organize and mobilize human and financial resources to successfully impact them. penn hillel focuses on jewish…

Education
11
Pittsburgh Jewish Women's League for Taharath Hamishpocho (Family Purity)

To maintain and foster the jewish traditions of family purity through the operation of a ritularium.

Religion
12
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc

See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Association On Aging and the most unlike its peers is Edgewood Symphony Orchestra 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH CEMETERY & BURIAL ASSOC — $15,000 · OtherJEWISH CEMETERY & BURIAL ASSOCIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH CEMETARY & BURIAL ASSOC — $15,000 · OtherJEWISH CEMETARY & BURIAL ASSOCHILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER — $12,500 · OtherHILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTERTHE EDWARD & ROSE BERMEN HILLEL JUC — $12,500 · OtherTHE EDWARD & ROSE BERMEN HILLEL JUCFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PGH — $10,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PGHAUGUST WILSON AFRICAN AMERICAN — $7,500 · OtherAUGUST WILSON AFRICAN AMERICANREPAIR THE WORLD PITTSBURGH — $7,500 · OtherREPAIR THE WORLD PITTSBURGH+2 more — $4,000 · OtherT OF L INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureT OF L INCPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUSTJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING — $15,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ASSOCIATION…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND …THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIR…STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $20,000 · EducationSTOREHOUS…412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition412 FOOD …OUR GIVING KITCHEN PITTSBURGH INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionOUR GIVIN…
Other$99,000Arts & Culture$70,000Human Services$40,000Education$20,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetT OF L INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER — $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDGEWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Federation of Greater PittsburghPA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 David R and Frances F Levin 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to David R and Frances F Levin Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David R and Frances F Levin Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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