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Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$114k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
54%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 28
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$256k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving27$114k37%
FY202328$75k54%
FY202226$64k69%
FY202126$80k58%
FY202017$53k24%
FY201920$47k60%
FY201817$73kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$101kPhilanthropy$67kEducation$63kHealth$53kHuman Services$51kRecreation & Sports$31kCivil Rights$30kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Community Center Inc$25,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$25,00010%
Temple Beth Sholom$23,4927n/a
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$20,00030%
Discovery to Cure Foundation Inc$19,620214%
St Martin de Porres Academy Inc$11,50030%
Ezra Academy of Greater New Haven Inc$7,34550%
Congregation B'Nai Jacob$6,2965n/a
Camp Argo$5,50022%
Camp Laurelwood Inc$5,00010%
Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Community Center Inc$25,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$25,00010%
Temple Beth Sholom$23,4927n/a
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$20,00030%
Discovery to Cure Foundation Inc$19,620214%
St Martin de Porres Academy Inc$11,50030%
Ezra Academy of Greater New Haven Inc$7,34550%
Congregation B'Nai Jacob$6,2965n/a
Camp Argo$5,50022%
Camp Laurelwood Inc$5,00010%
The Center for Family Justice Inc$3,50010%
Temple Emanuel of Greater New Haven Inc$3,4753n/a
Cure Rare Disease Inc$2,70020%
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc$2,50010%
Jewish Family Service Inc$1,80012%
Congregation Beth Israel Beth Israel Synagogue$1,8001n/a
Life Haven Inc$1,5002n/a
The Tommy Fund Inc$1,10020%
The Clearity Foundation$1,00010%
Leap$1,0001n/a
Connecticut Zoological Societyinc$98030%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$80030%
Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc$75020%
The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc$50010%
BNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut$35020%
Music Haven Inc$30010%
Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc$25010%
Masonicare Corporation$25010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$25010%
Donorschooseorg$23010%
Orange Historical Society Inc$1001n/a
Community Soup Kitchen Incorporated$5010%
United Way of Milford Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($333k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Community Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDiscovery to Cure Foundation Inc: $19,620 over 2y, 14% of budgetSt Martin de Porres Academy Inc: $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEzra Academy of Greater New Haven Inc: $7,345 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Argo: $5,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCamp Laurelwood Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Center for Family Justice Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCure Rare Disease Inc: $2,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Service Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Tommy Fund Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Clearity Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Zoological Societyinc: $980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Haven Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMasonicare Corporation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Soup Kitchen Incorporated: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Milford Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

The Community Foundation for Greater New HavenCT21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Yale University · The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation · Garden Homes Fund · The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · The Morris & Sylvia Trachten Family Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Newalliance 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.

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About Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust

How much does Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust give?
Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust reported 38 grants totaling $114,408 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Philanthropy (13%), Education (12%).
Who are Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Jewish Community Center Inc ($25k), Anti-Defamation League ($25k), Temple Beth Sholom ($23k).
Does Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust 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 Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Yale University, The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation.
Where is Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust based?
Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust is based in CT.

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 93 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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