Illinois · Private foundation
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.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,050,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $63M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Donald Levin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $3.6M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $4.1M | 45% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $3.2M | 67% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $2.3M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $2.1M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $1.1M | 67% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $201k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $4.4M | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $8,000,000 | 3 | 2% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $2,050,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | $1,600,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Chicago Community Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Saving Paws Rescue Az | $425,000 | 2 | 38% |
| Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School | $295,633 | 3 | 0% |
| America Gives Inc | $115,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Allergy Research & Education Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Donald Levin Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Donald Levin Family Foundation
- How much does Donald Levin Family Foundation give?
- Donald Levin Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $3,931,633 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Donald Levin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Religion (17%), Health (15%).
- Who are Donald Levin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University ($8.0M), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($2.0M), Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health ($1.6M).
- Does Donald Levin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald Levin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Donald Levin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Donald Levin Family Foundation based?
- Donald Levin Family Foundation is based in IL.
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