· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of IRVING & DOROTHY LEVY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| UW FOUNDATION - CHAZEN ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
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
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
- LNLITERACY NETWORK INC6× · 2017–2022 · $170k · revenue +101%
- MPMADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $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%
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.
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Domestic Abuse Intervention Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 52 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RHINELANDER HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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 THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
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: 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
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 Irving & Dorothy Levy 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.
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.