· Private foundation
Dora Freedman Levit Fund for People
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $690k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANAL ALLIANCE | $150,000 |
| RAINFOREST FLOW | $140,000 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $75,000 |
| FOS FEMINISTA | $75,000 |
| ALL HEARTS AND HANDS SMART RESPONSE | $50,000 |
| PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| SCHOOL ON WHEELS | $50,000 |
| UPWARD BOUND HOUSE | $50,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $50,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA | $10,000 |
| CASA SERENA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- CACANAL ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $850k · revenue +229%
- RFRAINFOREST FLOW8× · 2017–2024 · $543k · revenue +416% · 42% of their budget
- SOSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $420k · revenue +2%
Funded once
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $160k · revenue -17%- NANATIVE AMERICAN RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $100k
INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +50%
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.
To build decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
To provide a temporary home and on-going support for pregnant women, and women with newborns over the age of 18 who are alone. counseling and educational programs prepare these women to make loving and informed decisions for themselves and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is CHORDS2CURE Corporation. 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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 40 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 CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST FLOW ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD BOUND HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Casa Serena ↗
- Who funds Solar Cookers International ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds JOVENES INC ↗
- Who funds CHORDS2CURE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds STRONG FOODLA KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds LA LUZ CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNSTOPPABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREAM TREE PROJECT ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Weingart Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Dora Freedman Levit Fund for People 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.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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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