How much does Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust give?

Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust reported 26 grants totaling $243,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (56%), Religion (18%), Arts & Culture (8%).

Who are Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Jewish Community Federation of Greater Chattanooga ($1.3M), Ramah Darom Inc ($173k), Bnai Zion Congregation ($143k).

Does Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Howard Fund, Benwood Foundation Inc, Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc.

Where is Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust based?

Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust is based in TN.

Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust

Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$244k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$154k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.5MReligion$462kArts & Culture$201kHuman Services$156kEducation$109kInternational$109kHealth$66kRecreation & Sports$22kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k23 grants · $33k
$10k–50k2 grants · $57k
$50k–250k1 grant · $154k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA	$154,100
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES	$40,500
B'NAI ZION CONGREGATION	$16,750
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA	$7,500
BAYIT BRIGADE AMERICA	$2,750
PAN-MASS CHALLENGE	$2,500
BREAKTHROUGH T1D	$2,500
TOCQUEVILLE SOCIETY OF UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE	$2,500
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES	$2,500
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK	$1,500
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF GREATER BOSTON	$1,500
CONGREGATION OR ATID	$1,100
TEMPLE SINAI INC	$1,000
ALD CONNECT	$1,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 46 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

-24%

Still filing today

63%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

JC
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +81%
JF
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
6× · 2018–2025 · $132k · revenue +43%
IE
ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
4× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +91%

Funded once

BZ
BNAI ZION CONGREGATION
one grant, 2024 · $138k
FH
Facing History Ourselves
one grant, 2024 · $31k
US
UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM
one grant, 2018 · $25k

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.

American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights

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…

—

Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bayit Brigade. 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

47 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. 47 of the 77 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/47

Grantees still filing

30/47

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,283,575Philanthropy$140,750International$109,124Education$28,400Health$18,200Human Services$18,000Food & Nutrition$14,050

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.

The Howard FundTN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Fund · Benwood Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Hamico Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Helen and Harry Saul Foundation · The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc · Footprint Foundation Inc

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 Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust 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.

Play a game based on Lebovitz Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home