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Eric Eliezer Levenson Foundation for Hope Inc

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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$132kHealth$68kEducation$43kPhilanthropy$32kReligion$7kInternational$6kRecreation & Sports$3kHousing & Shelter$180Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$3,600
Median grant
3
States reached
$272k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Family Service of Metrowest$18,500
NEVUT$3,600
Individual grant recipient$360
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 (FY18–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Jewish Services for the Developmentally Disabled: $12k → 16%Knock Knock Give a Sock: $180 → 16%NJY Camps: $3k → 16%Friendship Circle: $500 → 16%Friendship Circle: $360 → 16%Friendship Circle: $360 → 16%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 11 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
18

Total granted

$231k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+15%

Still filing today

27%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationReligionOther
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

  • JF
    Jewish Family Service of Metrowest
    7× · 2019–2025 · $111k
  • MC
    MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $39k · revenue +5%
  • JF
    Jewish Family Service of Clifton-Passaic
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k

Funded once

  • JF
    Jewish Family Services of MetroWest
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • JS
    JEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED OF METROWEST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +122%
  • BT
    Beit T'Shuvahgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +57%
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.

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Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
The Jewish Wisdom Foundation

To create a dynamic community of Jews, nourished by mutual respect and honest, open dialogue, challenging stereotypes, invigorating curiosity, plumbing the depths of their great heritage and empowering a revolution in Jewish identity. In…

Education
4
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
5
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
7
The Jerusalem Connection
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8
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
10
The Keren Rachaim Fund
—
11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj; the most unlike its peers is Knock Knock Give a Sock. 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

14 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. 14 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jewish Family Service of Metrowest: $111,000 · OtherJewish Family Service of MetrowestJewish Family Service of Clifton-Passaic: $20,000 · OtherJewish Family Service of Clifton-PassaicJewish Family Services of Clifton: $20,000 · OtherJewish Family Services of CliftonJewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled: $15,360 · OtherJewish Service for the Developmentally DisabledJewish Family Services of MetroWest: $15,000 · OtherJewish Family Services of MetroWestJSDD: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $25,020 · Other+13 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $32,100 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERAT…BETTER FUTURE FOR ISRAEL: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBETTER FUTURE …THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,388 · Philanthropy+1 more: $360 · PhilanthropyMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $38,800 · EducationMUHLENBERG COL…JEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED OF METROWEST INC: $11,945 · Human ServicesNEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $1,220 · Human Services+1 more: $180 · Human ServicesESHEL: $1,800 · ReligionAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,000 · HealthCOMMUNITIES CONFRONTING SUBSTANCE USE & ADDICTION INC: $180 · Health
Other$216,380Philanthropy$38,848Education$38,800Human Services$15,845Religion$1,800Health$1,180

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $38,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $32,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER FUTURE FOR ISRAEL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $4,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESHEL: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,388 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $1,220 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Youth Mental Health Project: $360 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES CONFRONTING SUBSTANCE USE & ADDICTION INC: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNOCK KNOCK GIVE A SOCK: $180 over 1y, 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 MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED OF METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTER FUTURE FOR ISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S ↗
  • Who funds ESHEL ↗
  • Who funds THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KISHORIT INC ↗
  • Who funds The Youth Mental Health Project ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES CONFRONTING SUBSTANCE USE & ADDICTION INC ↗
  • Who funds KNOCK KNOCK GIVE A SOCK ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundCross River Community…FjcJpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY16.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Cross River Community Foundation · Fjc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Eric Eliezer Levenson Foundation for Hope Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eric Eliezer Levenson Foundation for Hope Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Eric Eliezer Levenson Foundation for Hope Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 31 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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