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Leon Levy 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| BARD GRADUATE CENTER | $1,035,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
272 repeat relationships — 163 still active in FY2024, 109 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NYNew York University8× · 2017–2024 · $68M · revenue +76%
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN8× · 2017–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +40%
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $4.4M · revenue +229%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $1.7M · revenue -40%
- TLTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPFone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -49%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Incone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
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.
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.
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for Public Housing 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.
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 41 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
295 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. 295 of the 462 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds City Report Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL NATURE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Jewish Communal Fund · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund 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 organization 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.
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Archaeological Institute of America — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
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.
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