New Jersey · Private foundation
Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $110k
- Granted FY2023
- 9
- Grants FY2023
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
83% of Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $110k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 5
- Total assets, FY2023
- $159k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 9 | $110k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $36k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $12k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $17k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $13k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $11k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $15k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Betterhumans Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Garden Academy Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Seton Hall Preparatory School | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Human Age Reversal Project Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 33% |
| Lifespan Research Institution | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $9,300 | 4 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $6,900 | 4 | 0% |
| The Pennington School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of America | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Betterhumans Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Garden Academy Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Seton Hall Preparatory School | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Human Age Reversal Project Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 33% |
| Lifespan Research Institution | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $9,300 | 4 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $6,900 | 4 | 0% |
| The Pennington School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of America | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Operation Smile Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $1,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Rosemaries Rescue Ranch Inc | $1,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Special Olympics Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Banyan School Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $109,800 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (69%), Education (27%), Religion (2%).
- Who are Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Betterhumans Inc ($100k), Garden Academy Inc ($30k), Seton Hall Preparatory School ($25k).
- Does Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, Network for Good, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Lawrence and Karen Levinson Charitable Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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