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· Private foundation
EZRA LEVIN FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$485k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants
1
Communities
$310k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2021.
Philanthropy$472kEducation$11kReligion$5kFood & Nutrition$1kCivil Rights$500Arts & Culture$300Other$53k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
champaignsymphony
2020
champaignsymphonychampaign-urbana
2021
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $152k
- $250k+1 grant · $310k
$151,904
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS$309,620
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS$151,904
- THE SINAI TEMPLE$15,000
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS$8,729
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 14%. 97% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$524k · 19 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 17 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
19
15
Total granted
$524k
$19k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+87%
+55%
Still filing today
32%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationReligionFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS4× · 2018–2021 · $472k · revenue +107%
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $9k · revenue +9%- CJCHAMPAIGN-URBANA JEWISH FEDERATION3× · 2018–2020 · $2k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- CCOMMUNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $6k
- BSBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +26%
- MGMAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION THROUGH NATURAL LAWone grant, 2020 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Champaign County Farm Bureau
The champaign county farm bureau foundation is a charitable organization that raises funds for the purpose of providing scholarships to students of champaign county who are studying in the field of agriculture.
Food & Nutrition
2
Illinois State University Foundation
To hold & administer gifts with the primary objective of serving the educational purposes of isu.
Education
3
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc
Charitable food distribution.
Food & Nutrition
4
Chicago State Foundation
The mission of Chicago State Foundation is to advance the interest and welfare of CSU by building relationships, securing philanthropic support, stewarding assets and otherwise procuring private support on behalf of the University. Working…
Education
5
Citizens Utility Board
Provide representation to illinois utility customers before state courts and commissions, and to educate illinois utility customers.
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6
Champaign County Community Development Corporation
Economic development within champaign county, il and surrounding communities
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7
Chicago United for Equity
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Civil Rights
8
Change Illinois Action Fund
Change illinois action fund is dedicated to advocating for solutions to the issues that undermine democracy and government efficiency in illinois, including restricted ballot access, uncompetitive elections, decreased citizen…
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9
Feeding Illinois
To educate the public about the role of food banks in addressing hunger.
Food & Nutrition
10
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Ccbf pays bond for people charged with crimes in cook county, illinois. through a revolving fund, ccbf supports individuals whose communities cannot afford to pay the bonds themselves and who have been impacted by structural violence.
Crime & Legal
11
Champaign Public Library Foundation
To promote literacy and the eductaiton benefits of the champaign public library to the residents
Education
12
Eastern Illinois University Foundation
To encourage and provide private support for Eastern Illinois University and its educational mission through scholarships and grants
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of East Central and the most unlike its peers is University of Illinois Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$472,103Other$53,477Education$11,250Religion$4,800Food & Nutrition$1,300Civil Rights$500Arts & Culture$300
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN-URBANA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN-URBANA BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE READING GROUP ↗
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.
Community Foundation of East CentralIL22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of East Central · United Way of Champaign County · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · WGRC Inc · Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · The Meyer Charitable Foundation · The Carle Foundation Hospital · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 organisation EZRA LEVIN FOUNDATION 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 237176723 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Ezra Levin Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Ezra Levin Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines