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Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation at a glance

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Lebowitz-Aberly 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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
145
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.6MPublic Benefit$2.2MCivil Rights$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.4MHealth$1.2MInternational$383kArts & Culture$263kCommunity Improvement$235kOther$0
02FY2024 · 145 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k53 grants · $156k
  • $10k–50k78 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PPFA$225,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$175,000
WAY TO RISE$75,000
HOPEWELL FUND$60,000
HOPEWELL FUND$50,000
VOTER FORMATION PROJECT$50,000
INDIVISIBLE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT$50,000
ADVANCE DEMOCRACY$50,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$50,000
PPLM$50,000
NDRC FOUNDATION$50,000
STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT$50,000
AMERICA VOTES EDUCATION FUND$50,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$50,000
HOPEWELL FUND$40,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%REPOWER FUND: $3k → 11%PROJECT 68 EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 15%WORK MONEY FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%REPOWER FUND: $3k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $33k → 10%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%REPOWER FUND: $3k → 11%REPOWER FUND: $3k → 11%METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND: $1k → 8%REPOWER FUND: $3k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $4k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $3k → 10%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $3k → 14%AFIYA CENTER: $5k → 14%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
NY
MA
OR
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IN
OH
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
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TN
NC
DC
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AL
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FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 124 repeat orgs$894k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

124 repeat relationships: 95 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
72

Total granted

$10M
$512k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+10%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • GS
    GREENHILL SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +37%
  • TR
    THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +28%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOPEWELL FUND (ACRONYM)
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
  • WH
    WHITE HERON THEATER COMPANY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -63%
  • MV
    MOVEMENT VOTER PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

1
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
2
Voteamerica

The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.

Civil Rights
3
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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4
Democracy Forward

See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.

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5
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
6
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
7
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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8
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
9
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

Civil Rights
12
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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

166 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 166 of the 236 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
166/166
Grantees still filing
102/166
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREENHILL SCHOOL: $2,000,000 · EducationGREENHILL SCHOOLTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL: $1,890,000 · EducationTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOLWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $155,000 · Education+21 more: $554,642 · Education+21 moreACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $210,000 · Civil RightsACLU FOUNDATION OF…NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $210,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL REDISTRIC…VOTER FORMATION PROJECT: $180,000 · Civil RightsVOTER FORMATION PR…INDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $180,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE CIVICSSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $150,000 · Civil RightsSTATE INNOVATION E…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $85,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $80,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $80,000 · Civil RightsUltraViolet Education Fund: $75,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $67,000 · Civil Rights+34 more: $639,500 · Civil Rights+34 morePPLM: $120,000 · OtherOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $90,000 · OtherCREW: $90,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND: $215,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUNDTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $175,000 · OtherTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJEC…+100 more: $1,823,240 · Other+100 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,025,000 · HealthPLANNED P…+4 more: $54,500 · HealthHOPEWELL FUND: $452,500 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $187,500 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $170,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropySTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $160,000 · Public BenefitDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $125,000 · Public BenefitCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER: $105,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $63,500 · Public BenefitFIX THE COURT: $60,000 · Public BenefitSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Public Benefit+6 more: $80,000 · Public BenefitGlobal Impact: $205,000 · InternationalADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC: $200,000 · InternationalPANORAMA GLOBAL: $170,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · International
Education$4,599,642Civil Rights$1,956,500Other$2,513,240Health$1,079,500Philanthropy$950,000Public Benefit$618,500International$580,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGREENHILL SCHOOL: $2,000,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL: $1,890,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,025,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $452,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $215,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $210,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGlobal Impact: $205,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC: $200,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $187,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOTER FORMATION PROJECT: $180,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $180,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $175,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $170,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL: $170,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $160,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $150,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWAY TO RISE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $125,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER: $105,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUltraViolet Education Fund: $75,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $67,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $64,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $63,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIX THE COURT: $60,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetRED WINE & BLUE EDUCATION FUND: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWellesley College: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica Votes Education Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAIR DISTRICTS FUND: $50,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $46,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Vote At Home Institute: $45,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWilliams College: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTake Back The Court Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR COUNT INC: $37,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetA HEALTHIER DEMOCRACY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFORWARD ACTION FUND: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH MAIN STREET FUND: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 GREENHILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Global Impact ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds VOTER FORMATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds INDIVISIBLE CIVICS ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds WAY TO RISE ↗
  • Who funds DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds UltraViolet Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds FIX THE COURT ↗
  • Who funds RED WINE & BLUE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

New Venture FundHopewell FundThe Susan Thompson Bu…Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncThe Ford FoundationWindward FundThe Leonard & Sophie …Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincMarin Community Found…
New Venture FundDC63.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ford Foundation · Windward Fund · The Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Marin Community Foundation

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 Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Ellis Early Learning Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Community Catalyst Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 236 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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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