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· Private foundation
Lavin Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$9k
Granted FY2023
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Grants
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Communities
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of LAVIN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
handdefensediscretion recipientjewish
2019
bethisraeldiscretion recipientjewish
2020
discretion recipientjewish
2021
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2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$8,610
Median grant
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States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
- National Multiple Sclerosis Foundat$8,610
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$724k · 17 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
27
Total granted
$724k
$136k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+31%
+38%
Still filing today
18%
26%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsOther
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
- AIAmerican Israel Education Foundatio4× · 2017–2020 · $290k
- JNJewish National Fund5× · 2017–2022 · $122k
- JUJewish United Fund4× · 2017–2020 · $65k
Funded once
- TATel Aviv Universityone grant, 2017 · $50k
- CFCystric Fibrosis Foundationone grant, 2017 · $15k
- FOFriends of Elnetone grant, 2020 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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American Committee for Shaare Zedek
To support shaare zedek medical center in jerusalem.
International
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The Jewish Agency for Israel
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center.it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
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The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Makes the diversity of jewish experience relevant through art & programs that challenge & inspire.
Arts & Culture
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The Associated Jewish Community
To preserve and enhance jewish life.
Philanthropy
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Jewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis
The Jewish Community Relations Council is the public affairs arm of the organized Jewish community, building consensus on issues of concern, and then communicating those interests to policy makers, faith and ethnic communities, civic…
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Joint Israel
To help Israel's most disadvantaged populations: children, (Cont. on Sched. O) youths-at-risk, people with disabilities, vulnerable new immigrants and the elderly.
International
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Connect Israel
Bringing together american jews and israelis to create game-changing ideas and relationships that last a lifetime. connect israel brings together young professional american jews and israelis with an annual week-long trip, regular cohort…
International
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Jewish Community Center of Cincinnati
The Mayerson JCC provides cultural, social, educational and recreational programs to the Jewish Community and general community of Greater Cincinnati.
Recreation & Sports
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JEWISHColorado
We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.
Philanthropy
10
Ksav Sofer Inc
Philanthropy
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The Jewish Community Center in
Creates opportunities to connect, grow and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
Human Services
12
International Sephardic Educational &
The sec is dedicated to strengthening jewish indentiy for youth and young adults, and to building a new generation of spiritual and community leaders. from our historic campus in the old city of jerusalem to our various diaspora branches,…
Religion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Jewish Committee and the most unlike its peers is Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$811,610Arts & Culture$25,000Human Services$12,700Youth Development$5,000International$2,500Education$2,000Civil Rights$1,000Religion$500
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.
Circle of Service FoundationIL15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation Lavin 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Build.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.7× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 237022085 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Build, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Lavin Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Lavin Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines