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Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$36MEducation$8.0MArts & Culture$5.5MYouth Development$5.0MSocial Science$5.0MFood & Nutrition$2.9MInternational$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+8 grants · $7.5M
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$2,000,000
THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$1,600,000
KIPP WHOLE CHILD CENTER DBA KIPP MICHIGAN$1,428,341
THE HENRY FORD (EDISON INSTITUTE)$1,000,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT$500,000
DETROIT OPERA$500,000
PILOT LIGHT FOUNDATION$250,000
MSU FOUNDATION$250,000
MIT (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)$240,000
BRILLIANT DETROIT$150,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (AIEF)$125,000
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$100,000
MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $1k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $360 → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%MEND ON THE MOVE: $3k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $16k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $15k → 8%ACCESS: $1k → 21%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $2k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $2k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $15k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66M · 102 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

102 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
76

Total granted

$66M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+20%

Still filing today

74%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $493k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    7× · 2018–2025 · $28M · revenue +69%
  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +25%
  • DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $600k
  • GF
    GREENLIGHT FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -29%
  • TN
    THE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +31%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
4
United Jewish Foundation

The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…

Philanthropy
5
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
6
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
7
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
8
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
11
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
12
Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is The Pilot Light Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

110 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 110 of the 188 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/110
Grantees still filing
83/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $27,650,250 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,150,500 · Health+12 more: $488,000 · HealthTHE HENRY FORD (EDISON INSTITUTE): $7,802,100 · OtherTHE HENRY FORD (EDISON INSTITUTE)THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5,468,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONKIPP WHOLE CHILD CENTER DBA KIPP MICHIGAN: $2,603,405 · OtherKIPP WHOLE CHILD CENTER DBA KIPP MICHIG…THE PILOT LIGHT FOUNDATION: $800,000 · Other+118 more: $7,199,847 · Other+118 moreDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,050,800 · Arts & CultureDETROIT S…DETROIT OPERA: $1,852,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT O…THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $628,250 · Arts & CultureTHE DETRO…MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $595,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF…+11 more: $330,600 · Arts & Culture+11 moreFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $2,660,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $98,000 · Food & NutritionCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $2,025,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $250,000 · EducationTHE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Education+15 more: $205,188 · EducationIMPACTISRAEL INC: $826,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $631,000 · InternationalISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION: $300,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNET: $260,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $200,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $126,000 · International+10 more: $303,000 · InternationalBRILLIANT DETROIT: $1,950,000 · Youth Development
Health$29,288,750Other$23,873,352Arts & Culture$5,456,650Food & Nutrition$2,758,000Education$2,730,188International$2,646,000Youth Development$1,950,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $27,650,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $2,660,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,050,800 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $2,025,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $1,950,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetDETROIT OPERA: $1,852,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,150,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $826,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetTHE PILOT LIGHT FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 5y, 81% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $790,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetDETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND: $667,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $631,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $628,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $595,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $412,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $401,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION: $300,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $260,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC: $220,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE: $155,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $126,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYAD EZRA: $125,025 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $101,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $98,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $90,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $90,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $71,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $69,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $56,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $54,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $53,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael 21c: $52,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $48,800 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBLOSSOMING ROSE: $42,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND: $38,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $36,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
  • Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PILOT LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
  • Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗

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.

United Jewish Foundat…Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationThe Kresge FoundationThe Eugene Applebaum …William Davidson Foun…Marvin and Betty Dant…Malcolm and Beth Lowe…Marjorie and Maxwell …George M and Jo Elyn …Grosfeld FoundationThe Andrea and Lawren…
United Jewish FoundationMI58.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 188 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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