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Elie and Tina Levy Charitable Foundation Inc D/B/A Spark of Giving at a glance

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Elie and Tina Levy Charitable Foundation Inc D/B/A Spark of Giving

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$489k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$427k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$950kPhilanthropy$109kEducation$104kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
  • $250k+1 grant · $427k
$27,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$31k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS LESS THAN 2$426,906
ATERET TORAH CENTER$27,500
YESHIVAT HECHAL SHEMUEL$22,000
BET MEDRASH GADOL ATERET TORAH$13,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YESHIVAT MEKOR HAIM: $60k → 20%SHEPHARDIC TORAH CENTER KOLLEL: $18k → 6%SHE'ERIT EZRA: $35k → 11%YESHIVAT MEKOR HAIM: $38k → 20%SHE'ERIT EZRA: $23k → 11%YESHIVAT MEKOR HAIM: $21k → 20%SHE'ERIT EZRA: $20k → 11%YESHIVAT MEKOR HAIM: $20k → 20%SHE'ERIT EZRA: $16k → 11%YESHIVAT MEKOR HAIM: $14k → 20%SHE'ERIT EZRA: $15k → 11%BET YAAKOV OF JERSEY SHORE: $14k → 6%AHIR EZER YESHIVA: $25k → 20%YESHIVAT LEV TORAH: $14k → 20%VARIOUS LESS THAN 2: $427k → 20%VARIOUS LESS THAN 2: $412k → 20%YESHIVAT KETER TORAH: $15k → 6%VARIOUS LESS THAN 2: $387k → 20%VARIOUS LESS THAN 2: $267k → 20%VARIOUS LESS THAN 2: $226k → 20%VARIOUS LESS THAN 2: $215k → 20%VARIOUS LESS THAN 2: $114k → 20%MAGEN AVRAHAM OF BROOKLYN: $56k → 20%ATERET TORAH CENTER: $45k → 20%AHI EZER CONGREGATION: $29k → 20%YESHIVET DARCHEI ERETZ: $28k → 20%ATERET TORAH CENTER: $28k → 20%AHI EZER CONGREGATION: $25k → 20%MAGEN AVRAHAM OF BROOKLYN: $25k → 20%MAGEN AVRAHAM OF BROOKLYN: $23k → 20%EZRA LEVY AND FAMILY CHARITY FUND: $20k → 20%BET MEDRASH GADOL ATERET TORAH: $20k → 20%AHI EZER CONGREGATION: $18k → 20%BET MEDRASH GADOL ATERET TORAH: $18k → 20%BET MEDRASH GADOL ATERET TORAH: $18k → 20%BET MEDRASH GADOL ATERET TORAH: $18k → 20%ATERET TORAH CENTER: $17k → 20%ATERET TORAH CENTER: $16k → 20%BET MEDRASH HECHAL SHEMUEL: $15k → 20%BET MEDRASH GADOL ATERET TORAH: $13k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN-AV FOUNDATION: $25k → 20%YESHIVAT HECHAL SHEMUEL: $25k → 20%YAD YOSEF TORAH CENTER: $22k → 20%YESHIVAT HECHAL SHEMUEL: $22k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN-AV FOUNDATION: $20k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN-AV FOUNDATION: $19k → 20%YAD YOSEF TORAH CENTER: $17k → 20%YAD YOSEF TORAH CENTER: $15k → 20%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 14 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$3.1M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+166%

Still filing today

29%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • BF
    BABBITT FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +604% · 100% of their budget
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN-AV FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $89k · revenue +110%
  • LC
    LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $38k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • AE
    AHI EZER YESHIVA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • EL
    EZRA LEVY AND FAMILY CHARITY FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • ST
    SHEPHARDIC TORAH CENTER KOLLEL
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
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
Keren Yad Le-Yosef Foundation Trust
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2
Keren Kinyan Torah Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Keren Ateres Yitzchok Trust
Philanthropy
4
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Bais Yehuda Perach Rochel Foundation
Public Benefit
6
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
7
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
8
Bais Yisrael Foundation
—
9
Birchas Yaakov Kollel Inc

Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

—
10
Yeshiva Derech Hatorah-Yeshivat Mizrachi Lbanim

A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.

Education
11
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
12
Bais Yaakov Girls High School of Minneapolis

Providing jewish and secular education for high school aged girls.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Binyan-Av 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

8 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. 8 of the 25 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BABBITT FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST: $2,048,724 · OtherBABBITT FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTYESHIVAT MEKOR HAIM: $160,100 · OtherATERET TORAH CENTER: $127,750 · OtherMAGEN AVRAHAM OF BROOKLYN: $111,403 · OtherSHE ERIT EZRA INC: $108,750 · Other+13 more: $476,299 · Other+13 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN-AV FOUNDATION: $88,700 · PhilanthropyLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $38,150 · EducationILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $17,501 · EducationYESHIVA KETER TORAH INC: $14,597 · EducationYeshivat Lev Torah: $14,293 · ReligionKEREN EZER LNEFESH: $7,000 · HealthHACHAM BARUCH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION I: $5,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,033,026Philanthropy$88,700Education$70,248Religion$14,293Health$7,000Arts & Culture$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBABBITT FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST: $2,048,724 over 7y, 100% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN-AV FOUNDATION: $88,700 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $38,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $17,501 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVA KETER TORAH INC: $14,597 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYeshivat Lev Torah: $14,293 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKEREN EZER LNEFESH: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHACHAM BARUCH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION I: $5,500 over 1y, 5.1% 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 BABBITT FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BINYAN-AV FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ILAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA KETER TORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds Yeshivat Lev Torah ↗
  • Who funds KEREN EZER LNEFESH ↗
  • Who funds HACHAM BARUCH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION I ↗

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.

Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Jewish Communal FundMarbeh Shalom Foundat…The Jimmy and Berta K…The Setton FoundationRay & Sharon Haber Fo…Mary & Abe Sutton Fou…The Howard Hoffman & …The Amin and Lillian …Ralph J Harary Founda…Cabasso Family Founda…The Adjmi-Dwek Founda…
Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Ray & Sharon Haber Foundation Inc · Mary & Abe Sutton Foundation · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · Cabasso Family Foundation · The Adjmi-Dwek 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elie and Tina Levy Charitable Foundation Inc D/B/A Spark of Giving funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elie and Tina Levy Charitable Foundation Inc D/B/A Spark of Giving. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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