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J Preston Levis Charitable 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINDY HILL FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $6,500 |
| PIEDMONT CHILD CARE CENTER | $6,500 |
| PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVATORY | $5,000 |
| A PLACE TO BE | $3,000 |
| FISH | $1,000 |
| TRINITY CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SEVEN LOAVES | $1,000 |
| BUCHANAN HALL | $1,000 |
| GOUCHER COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| MT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WHWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +101%
- THTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG8× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +68%
- PCPIEDMONT CHILD CARE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +19%
Funded once
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.
Flint Hill is a private nonsectarian school of 1,049 preschool through high school students from 95 countries. We create developmental experiences that embrace the best practices of traditional and contemporary education. Through…
Our purpose is to establish an educational foundation of curiosity, confidence, and competence while practicing kindness to oneself, the community and nature.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
The west hill school offers pre-school age children a safe and nurturing environment that encourages a life-long celebration of learning. through our rich and varied curriculum, balanced with play and multisensory academic instruction, the…
To empower children who have learning differences with the skills needed to become confident, independent learners. It specifically addresses the needs of students with learning disabilities and/or attention deficit disorders.
The washington heights and inwood music community charter school ("whin music charter school or "whin") will provide our diverse student population with a rigorous academic instruction, intensive music education, and a positive learning…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…
The mission of the hillside school is to maximize the potential of children with learning disabilities through excellence in education.
The mission of piedmont community charter school is to provide a tuition-free k-12 school that offers a superior college preparatory educational option for the community and its families.
Provide education for the pre-school children in a cooperative pre-school environment.
Educating the whole child, in mind, body and spirit, for a life of continuous learning and meaningful engagement with the world. Washington Waldorf School follows the Waldorf curriculum for students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hill School Corporation of Middleburg and the most unlike its peers is Goucher College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
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.
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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 J Preston Levis Charitable 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.
- Goucher College — 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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