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Donald Levin Family 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 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $307k
- $250k+6 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $1,050,000 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $1,000,000 |
| PACC 911 | $600,000 |
| Love Them All | $350,000 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | $300,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $250,000 |
| Saving Paws Rescue AZ | $125,000 |
| Learn Charter School Network | $76,633 |
| Alone No More Dog Rescue Inc | $55,000 |
| Orphans of the Storm Animal Shelter | $50,000 |
| Cochise Canine Rescue | $25,000 |
| Chicago Filmmakers | $25,000 |
| Dogtree Pines Senior Pet Sanctuary | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2022 · $8.0M · revenue +125%- LELawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School3× · 2022–2025 · $296k · revenue +18%
- OOORPHANS OF THE STORM4× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- CCCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- AGAMERICA GIVES INCone grant, 2024 · $115k · revenue 0%
- VGVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +1%
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.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
To prevent the euthanasia of adoptable pets and support animal welfare groups to this end.
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
Serving the needs of all dogs and the people who love them.
The Organization is dedicated to finding life-long loving homes for stray, abandoned and abused cats and dogs. The Organization concentrates on networking with other animal welfare agencies in the county and throughout the state to provide…
To save senior dogs who are often overlooked by providing them the opportunity to thrive in a safe and caring environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helphopelive Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cochise Canine Rescue. 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds SAVING PAWS RESCUE AZ ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALONE NO MORE DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds COCHISE CANINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health System Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Filmmakers ↗
- Who funds Mark-9 ↗
- Who funds WISH FOR OUR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GARRIDO STRAY RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds PET GOTCHA DAY FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Donald Levin Family 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% 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.
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