Wisconsin · Private foundation
Irving & Dorothy Levy Family 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.
- $5.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $5.8M | 5% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $6.3M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $800k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $2.7M | 2% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $620k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $560k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $741k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Dane County Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rhinelander Health Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 8 | 47% |
| Madison Public Library Foundation Inc | $170,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Literacy Network Inc | $170,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Madison Symphony Orchestra Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Madison Children's Museum Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Dane County Humane Society | $120,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Temple Beth El | $115,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Beth Israel Center | $95,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Chabad-Lubavitch Inc | $90,000 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Dane County Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rhinelander Health Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 8 | 47% |
| Madison Public Library Foundation Inc | $170,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Literacy Network Inc | $170,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Madison Symphony Orchestra Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Madison Children's Museum Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Dane County Humane Society | $120,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Temple Beth El | $115,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Beth Israel Center | $95,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Chabad-Lubavitch Inc | $90,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Porchlight Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Madison Area Technical College Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Madison Rotary Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The River Food Pantry Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Champions4kids Inc | $27,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Dane County Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Family Service Madison Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Madison Opera Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Domestic Abuse Intervention Services Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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
Compare Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation with peer funders
About Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation
- How much does Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation give?
- Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $5,805,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (62%), Public Benefit (18%), Health (7%).
- Who are Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Dane County Inc ($250k), Rhinelander Health Foundation Inc ($200k), Madison Public Library Foundation Inc ($170k).
- Does Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Community Foundation, Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, United Way of Dane County Inc.
- Where is Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation based?
- Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation is based in WI.
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