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Edward & Karen Levene Char Found Trust
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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| TOWN HALL ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| WSKG PUBLIC TV & RADIO | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| MANCHESTER COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD | $5,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| MERCK FOREST & FARMLAND | $3,000 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BURR & BURTON ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| STRATTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS CARE | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE CONCORD | $2,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
Southwestern vermont health care exists to provide exceptional health care and comfort to the people we serve. see schedule o for additional details.
To care for and comfort our patients, residents, and their loved ones and to improve the health status of the communities we serve. the purpose of the organization is also to promote and support the development and maintenance of a highly…
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide access to high quality, comprehensive, primary healthcare in cook county to all users, regardless of financial ability to pay for service.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
Svhc realty,inc. was formed for the purpose of acting as a supporting organization to southwestern vermont healthcare corporation (svhc), itself a taxexempt entity, which, among other activities, operates southwestern vermont medical…
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwestern Vermont Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haat Force South Metro Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC ↗
- Who funds BURR & BURTON SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS CARE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD ↗
- Who funds HAAT Force South Metro Inc ↗
- Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
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 Vermont Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Edward & Karen Levene Char Found 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.
- Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% 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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