· Private foundation
Leon Lowenstein Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $3.3M
- $250k+10 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | $700,000 |
| National Association of Community Health Centers | $500,000 |
| Mobile Health Care Association | $450,000 |
| The Family Van - A Program of Harvard Medical School | $300,000 |
| CitySchools Collaborative | $300,000 |
| Amalgamated Foundation | $250,000 |
| Coalition for Green Capital | $250,000 |
| Groundswell | $250,000 |
| Invest in Our Future | $250,000 |
| ClimateHaven Inc | $250,000 |
| Learn to Be Foundation | $225,000 |
| Essential Hospitals Institute | $225,000 |
| EduTutorVA | $200,000 |
| Lawyers for Good Government Inc | $200,000 |
| Arizona State University Foundation | $200,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
152 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 90 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +51%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC4× · 2017–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +41%
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SSSUMMIT SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $850k
SHARE OUR STRENGTHone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue -44%- VOVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INCone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +4%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transcend Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tom Gold Dance Foundation 51 West 81ST Street. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
273 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. 273 of the 351 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.
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- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
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- Who funds Solar United Neighbors Inc ↗
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- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds PowerMyLearning Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION EVOLVING ↗
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- Who funds EYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LEAP INC ↗
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- Who funds Knowledgeworks Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
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- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds LITERACY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH ↗
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: Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Barr Foundation · Gates Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Rf Catalytic Capital Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · New Profit Inc · The New York Community Trust
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 Lowenstein Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Inclusive Prosperity Capital Inc — 100% of income from government
- Center for Collaborative Education Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Climatehaven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Community Health Center Capital Fund Inc — 21% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- National Association of Community Health Centers Inc — 12% of income from government
- Salem Pantry Inc — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Squash Haven Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Achievement Network Ltd — 1% of income from government
- Endicott College — 1% of income from government
- Bridgeport Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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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