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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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
89
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.7MHuman Services$1.2MReligion$881kHousing & Shelter$556kPhilanthropy$305kInternational$293kHealth$260kFood & Nutrition$132kOther$0
02FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k51 grants · $178k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $515k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $597k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING$1,000,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$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
CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC$25,000
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC$25,000
SKIDMORE COLLEGE$25,000
ISRAEL 21C$25,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$25,000
THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC$25,000
BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOW WOMEN LEAD: $1k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY: $6k → 10%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 8%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $5k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $3k → 10%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $1k → 14%REACH FOR HOME: $5k → 9%REACH FOR HOME: $5k → 9%SCOPA HAS A DREAM: $5k → 9%SCOPA HAS A DREAM: $5k → 9%TIDES CENTER: $4k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $4k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 10%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

VT
WA
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
AL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Howard and Irene Levine Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Howard and Irene Levine Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 75 repeat orgs$708k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
56

Total granted

$3.5M
$509k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+7%

Still filing today

87%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
  • MH
    MOISHE HOUSE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $184k · revenue +33%
  • CR
    CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $137k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • TH
    TERNER HOUSING INNOVATION LABS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +27%
  • UA
    UCLA Anderson School of Management
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
  • JF
    Jewish Federation of Los Angeles
    one grant, 2018 · $60k
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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The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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2
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

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…

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3
Hebrew College

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,…

Education
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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5
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
6
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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7
American Jewish Committee

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…

Civil Rights
8
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

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…

Religion
9
Irvine Hebrew Day School

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…

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10
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

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…

Philanthropy
11
Young Judaea Global Inc

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.

Education
12
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; 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.
05the grantee network

136 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. 136 of the 167 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
136/136
Grantees still filing
83/136
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION: $2,200,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONBRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL - MARIN: $90,000 · Education+19 more: $328,600 · Education+19 moreLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING: $1,004,000 · Community ImprovementLOS ANGELES JEWIS…+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $136,500 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA IN…VALLEY BETH SHALOM: $107,200 · OtherVALLEY BETH SHALOMUCLA Anderson School of Management: $75,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM: $70,000 · OtherCONGREGATION RODEF SHOLOM OF MARIN: $62,800 · OtherJewish Federation of Los Angeles: $60,000 · OtherCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $101,000 · OtherCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INCHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $55,000 · Other+101 more: $969,400 · Other+101 moreMERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $415,000 · Housing & ShelterTERNER HOUSING INNOVATION LABS INC: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $135,000 · InternationalISRAEL-AMERICA ACADEMIC EXCHANGE: $75,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $36,500 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $30,000 · InternationalTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $25,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalT'RUAH: $20,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $15,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $15,000 · International+7 more: $44,500 · InternationalMOISHE HOUSE: $184,065 · ReligionGLIDE FOUNDATION: $33,500 · ReligionTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $30,000 · ReligionREBOOT INC: $10,000 · ReligionWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $10,000 · Religion+3 more: $12,900 · ReligionJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $70,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $44,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $40,300 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $38,300 · PhilanthropyGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropySONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$2,618,600Community Improvement$1,014,000Other$1,636,900Housing & Shelter$530,000International$421,000Religion$280,465Philanthropy$245,100

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING: $1,004,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $415,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $184,065 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $136,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $135,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $101,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTERNER HOUSING INNOVATION LABS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL - MARIN: $90,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL-AMERICA ACADEMIC EXCHANGE: $75,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIsrael 21c: $60,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $44,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $40,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $38,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $36,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $33,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $33,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA: $27,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Jewish Healing Center: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetT'RUAH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Security Service: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $18,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFarm to Pantry: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMBAT CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Jewish Community Free Clinic: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEDEN HOUSING INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREACH FOR HOME: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% 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 Community Fede…The Shimon Ben Joseph…Lisa & Douglas Goldma…Koret FoundationJohn Pritzker Family …Jewish Community Foun…The Koum Family Found…The San Francisco Fou…Lisa Stone Pritzker F…Marin Community Found…Sonoma County Communi…The Laszlo N Tauber F…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA49.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Howard and Irene Levine Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard and Irene Levine Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Howard and Irene Levine Family 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 167 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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