· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UW FOUNDATION - PHILLIP A LEVY ENGINEERING HALL | $5,000,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION - L&S BUILDING | $500,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION - CARBONE CANCER CENTER | $35,000 |
| ST MARYS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION - WAISMAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION - DEPT OF OPTHAMOLOGY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION - DEPT OF UROLOGY | $15,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL CENTER | $10,000 |
| JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $170k · revenue +101%
- LNLITERACY NETWORK INC6× · 2017–2022 · $170k · revenue +101%
- MSMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- VOVILLAGE OF MAPLE BLUFF- MBCC PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $65k
- WYWISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- MOMADISON OPERA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +43%
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.
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.
Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.
The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Madison development corporation (mdc)'s mission is to help create jobs by providing gap financing to small businesses and to develop and finance quality, affordable workforce housing units in madison and the dane county area.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
We enrich lives to create healthy communities through meaningful relationships built on gratitude and philanthropy.
Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.
Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.
To attract businesses to locate in madison county, iowa
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RHINELANDER HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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