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Le Vine Family 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.

$335k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$1.0MFood & Nutrition$266kArts & Culture$201kHuman Services$152kHealth$68kRecreation & Sports$61kHousing & Shelter$52kAnimals$44kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $203k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$52,500
ELEVATE215$50,000
CARPENTERS' COMPANY$50,000
PROJECT HOME$50,000
PHILADELPHIA FINANCIAL SCHOLARS$29,880
SCHOODIC INSTITUTE$20,000
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION$10,000
SQUASHSMARTS$10,000
INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS$10,000
LONGWOOD GARDENS INC$10,000
PHILADELPHIA ZOO$10,000
MUSICWORKS$10,000
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$7,500
EPISCOPAL ACADEMY$5,000
SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WAVERLY HEIGHTS LTD: $5k → 7%ALONG THE WAY: $15k → 7%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $8k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
VA
DC
FL

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.

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 33 repeat orgs$558k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
46

Total granted

$1.4M
$483k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+24%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • TG
    THE GESU SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $115k · revenue +22%
  • CC
    CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2024 · $113k · revenue +39%
  • E2
    Elevate 215
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • PS
    PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL PARTNERS
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TC
    THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +15%

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.

1
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
3
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
4
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
5
Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia

With over 20 years of experience and over 30,000 scholarships awarded, csfp provides philadelphia children with eight-year, needs-based scholarships to attend safe, quality, k-8th grade schools. continued on schedule o.supporting…

Education
6
The Montessori School

The Montessori School educates children from 18 months-6th grade. Our program is rooted in the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori faithful to her method. In our caring environment, sustained by freedom peace, the school…

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7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Community Day School

At community day school, we are committed to raising proud jews, confident leaders, and accomplished learners who value excellence and prioritize community. as educators, administrators, and staff, we hold ourselves to the highest ethical…

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9
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
10
Philadelphia Montessori Charter School

Philadelphia montessori charter school (pmcs) excels at providing children in kindergarten through 4th grade with a montessori education in an environment that nurtures the whole child, celebrates inclusion, embraces innovation, and…

Education
11
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education
12
Philips Academy Charter School Inc

Our mission is to inspire diverse learners in a rigorous and innovative environment that cultivates resilient leadership, intellectual curiosity, and thoughtful stewardship.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elevate 215 and the most unlike its peers is Andalusia Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducational Support Organiz…Philadelphia Cultural & Nat…Affordable Housing and Resi…Chester County Community Se…Volunteer Fire & Emergency …Charter and Independent Sch…Community Arts OrganizationsUnion Member Benefit PlansMember Recreation ClubsHealth Research and Profess…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr14%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr12%15%35–55yr14%30%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
14%
2,938/21,428

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
55/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE GESU SCHOOL INC — $115,000 · EducationTHE GESU SCHOOL INCElevate 215 — $100,000 · EducationElevate 215Episcopal Academy — $85,000 · EducationEpiscopal AcademyBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO — $71,000 · EducationBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $68,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAMIGHTY WRITERS — $60,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERSCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL — $52,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $50,000 · EducationTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY — $42,500 · EducationFINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC — $29,880 · Education+11 more — $140,000 · Education+11 moreSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC — $75,000 · OtherSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INCIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALVATION ARMY — $70,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYPHILADELPHIA SCHOOL PARTNERS — $50,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA SCHOOL PARTNERSCREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · OtherGESU SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · OtherPRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO FOUNDATION USA — $20,000 · OtherTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $40,000 · OtherTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL …SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — $20,000 · OtherZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $40,700 · OtherZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELP…LONGWOOD GARDENS INC — $20,000 · Other+26 more — $101,600 · Other+26 moreCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $112,500 · Food & NutritionCHESTER CO…Philabundance — $65,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabunda…SHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $20,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD…CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCARPENTERS…MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $37,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $15,000 · Arts & CultureBrandywine…The Society of the Four Arts Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICWORKS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — $7,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $6,000 · Arts & CultureSQUASHSMARTS INC — $46,000 · Recreation & SportsPennsylvania RTC — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE SCHUYLKILL NAVY — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBOURNELYF SPECIAL CAMP — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER — $64,000 · HealthCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $6,500 · HealthVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $3,000 · Health+2 more — $3,500 · HealthPROJECT HOME — $51,500 · Human ServicesALONG THE WAY — $15,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesWAVERLY HEIGHTS — $5,000 · Human Services
Education$814,380Other$567,300Food & Nutrition$197,500Arts & Culture$195,500Recreation & Sports$106,000Health$87,000Human Services$79,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC — $115,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $112,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA — $100,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetElevate 215 — $100,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetEpiscopal Academy — $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO — $71,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $68,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER — $64,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL — $52,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $51,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSQUASHSMARTS INC — $46,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY — $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $40,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $37,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPennsylvania RTC — $35,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC — $29,880 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTREE HOUSE BOOKS — $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLONGWOOD GARDENS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALONG THE WAY — $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SCHUYLKILL NAVY — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICWORKS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc — $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTEACHERS' TEAMMATES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSBURY SOCIETY — $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…Hamilton Family Found…The Saramar Charitabl…Quaker City FoundationThe Barra Foundation …The Gordon Charter Fo…Connelly FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Snider FoundationFuture Standard Found…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA45.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Quaker City Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Snider Foundation · Future Standard 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 organization Le Vine Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Le Vine Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Le Vine Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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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