Virginia · Private foundation
Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy 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.
- $8.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 80
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 49 | $8.9M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $7.1M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $8.8M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $15M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $5.3M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $3.5M | 30% |
| FY2019 | 74 | $7.6M | 49% |
| FY2018 | 80 | $12M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Ford Health System | $27,650,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $2,660,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $2,050,800 | 7 | 3% |
| College for Creative Studies | $2,025,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Brilliant Detroit | $1,950,000 | 5 | 19% |
| Detroit Opera | $1,852,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Beaumont Health Foundation | $1,150,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Impactisrael Inc | $826,000 | 6 | 6% |
| The Pilot Light Foundation | $800,000 | 5 | 81% |
| Mackinac Center | $790,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 114 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($19M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: United Jewish Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · William Davidson Foundation · Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation · Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · Grosfeld Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation with peer funders
About Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation
- How much does Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation give?
- Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $8,904,087 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 80 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (52%), Education (12%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Henry Ford Health System ($28M), Forgotten Harvest Inc ($2.7M), Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc ($2.1M).
- Does Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy 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 Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Jewish Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation.
- Where is Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation based?
- Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation is based in VA.
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