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Frances and Jack Levy Foundation at a glance

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Frances and Jack 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.

$390k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$713kEducation$318kArts & Culture$241kHealth$172kReligion$124kFood & Nutrition$29kHuman Services$26kInternational$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $247k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$102,571
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC$74,500
TRUSTEES OF HAMILTON COLLEGE$70,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$40,300
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$25,000
THE JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$25,000
UNITED WAY TOWN OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$25,000
SOCIETY OF FOUR ARTS$5,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$4,280
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$2,500
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$2,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM$2,000
PALM BEACH CONTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$2,000
BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$1,500
OXALOSIS AND HYPEROXALURIA FOUNDATION$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETE'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $500 → 6%SHALVA: $3k → 15%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $500 → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 6%THE JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1k → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $500 → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 17%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $250 → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100 → 17%ADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $250 → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $250 → 17%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

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IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
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GA
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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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 45 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
52

Total granted

$1.1M
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+19%

Still filing today

76%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $391k · revenue +39%
  • JB
    JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $76k · revenue +5%
  • TS
    THE SYLVIA CENTER
    5× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SPENCE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +12%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR ISRAEL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -1%
  • CP
    CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +19%
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
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
12
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Young Black and Lit. 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

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 110 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/79
Grantees still filing
57/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $391,357 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHIL…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $209,300 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INCUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $81,250 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc+3 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyTrustees of Hamilton College: $130,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilt…THE SPENCE SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOLTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUST…The Trustees of Princeton University: $32,500 · EducationThe Trustees of Pr…PREP FOR PREP: $14,000 · Education+9 more: $9,960 · EducationCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $109,200 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUETRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON…UNITED WAY TOWN OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $25,000 · OtherUNITED WAY TOWN OF PA…HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES: $12,500 · OtherPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $11,000 · OtherTHE SYLVIA CENTER: $28,940 · OtherTHE SYLVIA CENTER+46 more: $85,688 · Other+46 moreNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $199,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM O…THE DRAWING CENTER INC: $20,130 · Arts & CultureTHE DRAWING CEN…+7 more: $13,202 · Arts & Culture+7 moreJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $76,250 · Human ServicesSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,350 · Human ServicesSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,000 · Human Services+6 more: $5,750 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR ISRAEL INC: $15,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $13,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $8,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,600 · InternationalGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $12,500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,390 · HealthThe Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation: $5,100 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $2,950 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 · Health+8 more: $4,700 · Health
Philanthropy$688,907Education$266,460Other$309,328Arts & Culture$232,332Human Services$89,350International$41,600Health$36,640

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $391,357 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $209,300 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $199,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $81,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $76,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYLVIA CENTER: $28,940 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC: $20,130 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR ISRAEL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,390 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation: $5,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $4,150 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $2,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $2,702 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHALVA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWRITOPIA LAB INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANCING DREAMS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG BLACK AND LIT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $1,000 over 2y, 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.

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 FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for Good
Jewish Communal FundNY19.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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 Frances and Jack Levy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frances and Jack Levy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Hope Rural School Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
13report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Frances and Jack Levy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Frances and Jack Levy Foundation 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 110 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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