· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GOUCHER COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| FISH | $1,000 |
| BUCHANAN HALL | $1,000 |
| SEVEN LOAVES | $1,000 |
| MT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| TRINITY CHURCH | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
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: Wise Foundation · Frank Mangano Foundation · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization J Preston Levis Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Preston Levis Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Goucher College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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