· Private foundation
Howard and Irene Levine Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k51 grants · $178k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $515k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $597k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING | $1,000,000 |
| MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA | $210,000 |
| MOISHE HOUSE | $119,944 |
| VALLEY BETH SHALOM | $107,200 |
| CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC | $100,000 |
| THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA | $60,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $26,000 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| ISRAEL-AMERICA ACADEMIC EXCHANGE | $25,000 |
| BROTHERS FOR LIFE | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION RODEF SHOLOM OF MARIN | $25,000 |
| ISRAEL 21C | $25,000 |
| CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Howard and Irene Levine Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LALOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
- MHMOISHE HOUSE3× · 2022–2024 · $184k · revenue +33%
- CRCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $137k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- THTERNER HOUSING INNOVATION LABS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +27%
- UAUCLA Anderson School of Managementone grant, 2018 · $75k
- JFJewish Federation of Los Angelesone grant, 2018 · $60k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…
Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.
A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Farm to Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
136 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 136 of the 167 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TERNER HOUSING INNOVATION LABS INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL - MARIN ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL-AMERICA ACADEMIC EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds Israel 21c ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Koret Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Koum Family Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The Laszlo N Tauber Family 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 organization Howard and Irene Levine Family 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.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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