How much did LEON LEVY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of LEON LEVY 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.

02FY2024 · 214 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k63 grants · $209k
$10k–50k73 grants · $1.3M
$50k–250k52 grants · $5.3M
$250k+26 grants · $32M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$491M

Total assets

Largest grants

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$8,726,786
GRADUATE CENTER - CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$3,275,000
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$2,818,101
PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE$2,050,000
CITY COLLEGE NEW YORK THE$1,555,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,440,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,035,000
BARD GRADUATE CENTER$1,035,000
WHITE LEVY PROGRAM FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS$1,007,169
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY$1,000,000
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART$900,000
BNT FUND$648,814
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS$636,156
IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS$625,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$600,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$210M · 298 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

298 repeat relationships — 160 still active in FY2024, 138 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

298

150

Total granted

$210M

$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+38%

Still filing today

52%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

NY
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $68M · revenue +59%
TN
THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
4× · 2017–2021 · $4.7M · revenue +1%
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
5× · 2017–2022 · $4.4M · revenue +44%

Funded once

FF
FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE THE
one grant, 2022 · $1.7M
GC
GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC THE
one grant, 2022 · $1.5M
TL
THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISMgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +230%

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.

Berggruen Institute

Education

New York Law School

The mission of new york law school is to provide its students with knowledge, skill (see schedule o) and ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts

Bring people together through art & experiences that inspire celebration, compassion & courage.

Arts & Culture

The Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, a not-for-profit corporation, is both a museum and an institution of higher education that exists to provide appreciation and education in visual fine arts and design.

Education

New York Public Interest Research Group

The new york public interest research group fund nypirg is a non-partisan, nonprofit, research and public education organization dedicated to enhancing the public voice in critical public policy debates in order to strengthen democracy,…

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New York Film Academy

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New York Institute of Technology

We are committed to educating the next generation of leaders and inspiring innovation. (see sch o)

Education

International Center of Photography

The international center of photography is a center where photographs are collected, protected, researched, and exhibited; a place where students of all ages and accomplishments learn to make images and are challenged by technical and…

Arts & Culture

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Makes the diversity of jewish experience relevant through art & programs that challenge & inspire.

Arts & Culture

New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture

Columbia University Press

Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…

Arts & Culture

The Trustees of the New York Society

The library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, (continued on schedule o)a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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.

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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/247

the rest of the field

10,118/120,513

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

244 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

241/244

Grantees still filing

177/244

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$104,618,658Education$81,292,931Arts & Culture$21,405,170Environment$8,916,923Science & Tech$4,494,525Crime & Legal$4,165,500Civil Rights$3,940,156

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.

The Ford FoundationNY43.5× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Charina Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Walentas Foundation Ltd · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc

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 LEON LEVY 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

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9get no government money at all

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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: BAHAMAS HOPE FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~198 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 271290322 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 BAHAMAS HOPE FOUNDATION INC, 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 198 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 84% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Leon Levy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leon Levy 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.

LEON LEVY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

244 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Leon Levy Foundation?

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LEON LEVY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

244 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Leon Levy Foundation?

More from the funding graph