How much does Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc give?

Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $117,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (23%), Human Services (19%), Education (12%).

Who are Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Gary Sinise Foundation ($74k), Birthright Israel Foundation ($50k), Central Fund of Israel ($45k).

Does Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc based?

Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc is based in FL.

Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc

Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation 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.

$118k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$14k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$166kHuman Services$134kEducation$88kReligion$60kFood & Nutrition$57kHealth$56kPhilanthropy$36kPublic Benefit$33kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $52k
$10k–50k6 grants · $66k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$671k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA	$14,000
NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR ETHIOPIAN JEWRY	$12,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION	$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY	$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF	$10,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$10,000
THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY	$5,000
STAND WITH US	$5,000
BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FDN	$5,000
BARUCH COLLEGE FUND	$5,000
THE CENTRAL FUND FOR ISRAEL	$5,000
FEDERATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY	$5,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FUND	$5,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE	$4,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS	$3,000

02The need

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 (FY21–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$632k · 35 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$632k

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+3%

Still filing today

57%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalArts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

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

GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $74k · revenue +75%
BI
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +19%
CF
Central Fund of Israel
4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +75%

Funded once

FF
FEDERATION FOR SOUTH PBC
one grant, 2020 · $10k
JUDICIAL WATCH INC
one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +3%
VF
VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue ×45

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.

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

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International

National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture

Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

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

Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture

Ny Police and Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund Inc

Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hudson Valley Center for Comp Art. 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

41 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. 41 of the 68 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

30/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$365,300International$169,800Philanthropy$100,000Education$34,300Public Benefit$17,000Arts & Culture$14,650Health$12,600

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

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.

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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 Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert and Ellen Levitt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home