· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION-NEW HAVEN | $25,000 |
| JEEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| SOUTHERN CT HEBREW ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| YALE- DISCOVERY TO CURE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION-NEW HAVEN | $5,000 |
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY | $4,500 |
| SOUTHERN CT HEBREW ACADEMY | $4,000 |
| FOOD2KIDZ | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION-PJ LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM | $1,833 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $1,800 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FOOD2KIDZ | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 10 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- HIHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC3× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +23%
- EAEZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC5× · 2018–2022 · $7k · revenue +31%
- CACamp Argo2× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +127%
- YUYALE UNIVERSITY - DISCOVERY TO CURE WALKone grant, 2022 · $10k
- DTDISCOVERY TO CURE FOUNDATION AT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $5k
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 provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
The jewish high school of connecticut is dedicated to educate jewish youth for whom jewish values and traditions shape and guide their lives and for whom learning and responsible actions are foundational for achievement.
Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…
The jewish foundation of greater new haven's mission is to solicit and properly manage current and new charitable endowments and planned gifts for organizations in greater new haven so that there will be permanent and ongoing funding for…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
We are a warm and vibrant senior community, infused with jewish values, where people live their best lives.
Founded in 1976 the jewish historical society of greater new haven provides the mission of collecting, publishing, and preserving primary source materials that serve as the central repository for documents, research, and education to…
Connecticut children's medical center is dedicated to improving the physical and emotional health of children through family-centered care, research, education and advocacy. we embrace discovery, teamwork, integrity and excellence in all…
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
A safe, loving, and inclusive learning community where children, families, and staff feel welcome, accepted, and supported and where individuals are empowered to contribute their unique experiences and interests.
To educate and inform the public about biomedical research and biotechnology and to advance such research and technology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Discovery to Cure Foundation Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 93 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY TO CURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds EZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds Camp Argo ↗
- Who funds CAMP LAURELWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CURE RARE DISEASE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
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 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
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 Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Camp Argo — 28% of income from government
- Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Milford Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% 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.