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Jerome Levy 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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$11MArts & Culture$1.8MReligion$1.6MScience & Tech$1.0MEnvironment$999kPhilanthropy$932kCivil Rights$850kHealth$440kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARNARD COLLEGE$1,006,280
THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE$880,062
CONGREGATION SHIR SHALOM$250,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$250,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER & PUTNAM$30,000
THE JED FOUNDATION$30,000
THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC$15,000
WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE$10,000
WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST INC$10,000
ELNOR INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $228k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $1k → 20%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER & PUTNAM: $30k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER & PUTNAM: $25k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER & PUTNAM: $25k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER & PUTNAM: $25k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER & PUTNAM: $25k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER & PUTNAM: $15k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER & PUTNAM: $15k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER & PUTNAM: $12k → 9%THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $15k → 17%THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $15k → 17%THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $15k → 17%THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 21 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
16

Total granted

$17M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+28%

Still filing today

62%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +60%
  • SV
    SAVE VENICE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +40%
  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF ISREAL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2017 · $375k
  • TM
    TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -4%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORS
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
2
New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc

The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.

—
3
New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…

Environment
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
6
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
7
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
8
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

—
9
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
10
New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc

The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.

—
11
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
12
Thompson Park Conservancy Inc

Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Research and Educational Collab. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 40 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARNARD COLLEGE: $6,553,238 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGETHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $2,480,972 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE+1 more: $20,000 · EducationCITY COLLEGE NEW YORK THE: $1,874,475 · OtherCITY COLLEGE NEW YORK THEPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $800,000 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INCCONGREGATION SHIR SHALOM: $750,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SHIR SHALOMNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONTHE FRIENDS OF ISREAL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY: $375,000 · OtherTHE FRIENDS OF ISREAL ANTIQUITIE…BAHAMAS HABITAT: $253,490 · Other+21 more: $990,708 · Other+21 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $750,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC: $398,000 · EnvironmentWestchester Land Trust Inc: $134,758 · Environment+1 more: $16,349 · EnvironmentSAVE VENICE INC: $1,250,000 · International+1 more: $15,000 · InternationalCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1,000,000 · Science & TechNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC: $725,000 · Civil RightsTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $250,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATION: $190,000 · Health
Education$9,054,210Other$5,443,673Environment$1,299,107International$1,265,000Science & Tech$1,000,000Civil Rights$725,000Health$440,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $6,553,238 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $2,480,972 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC: $1,250,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $750,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC: $725,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC: $398,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM: $172,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $134,758 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $85,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research and Educational Collab: $20,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetLEWISBORO LAND TRUST INC: $16,349 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEATRIX FARRAND GARDEN ASSOC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetKATONAH VILLAGE LIBRARY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SAVE VENICE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM ↗
  • Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds The Research and Educational Collab ↗
  • Who funds LEWISBORO LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BEATRIX FARRAND GARDEN ASSOC INC ↗
  • Who funds KATONAH VILLAGE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LEGAL CARE 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.

The New York Communit…Bauer Family Foundati…Jewish Communal FundIbm International Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Network for Good
The New York Community TrustNY20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Bauer Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jerome Levy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerome Levy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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