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LEV Foundation

LEV Foundation acts to serve the interests of students and families across the State of Washington to improve education access and quality.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$956k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.1MPublic Benefit$725kCivil Rights$722kHuman Services$137kHousing & Shelter$75kFood & Nutrition$30k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $250k+1 grant · $956k
$17,791
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Seattle School District$955,774
Kids Co$17,791
Truss Leadership$9,000
Speak with Purpose$5,671
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 (FY17–24, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KIDS CO: $20k → 9%KIDS CO: $19k → 9%Kids Co: $18k → 9%EVERGREEN CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION KIDS CO: $15k → 9%EVERGREEN CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION KIDSCO: $15k → 9%KIDS CO: $7k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTI FAMILIES: $46k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $30k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTI FAMILIES: $20k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $13k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $11k → 9%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 74% of LEV Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 26%.

LEV Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 10 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$8.4M
$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
+135%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • OD
    OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES
    5× · 2019–2023 · $119k · revenue +140%
  • THE ARC - KING COUNTY
    4× · 2019–2022 · $112k · revenue +145%
  • EC
    Evergreen Childrens Association DBA Kids Co
    6× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • EI
    EQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue ×24
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNINGgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $85k · revenue +267%
  • SG
    Solid Ground Washingtongraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +33%
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
Belong Partners

BELONG Partners is an education equity nonprofit that believes in a future where everyone has the opportunity to thrive because they know they matter and belong. We partner with schools and organizations to build equitable communities…

Youth Development
2
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
3
Alliance for Education

Our mission is to support excellence in education by advancing educational justice and racial equity for students in Seattle Public Schools.

Education
4
Impact Public Schools

The mission of Impact Public Schools is to prepare a diverse student population to succeed in college and impact communities as the next generation of equity-driven, innovative leaders. (Continued on Schedule O)Impact Public Schools makes…

Education
5
Brightspark Early Learning Services

To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…

Human Services
6
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
7
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition

The mission of SESEC is to convene and resource communities of color to advocate for an equitable education system.

Education
8
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
9
Rooted School Washington

The charitable purpose is to operate a public charter school in Vancouver, Washington. The mission is to rapidly reduce America's wealth gap by connecting underserved and talented teenagers with career and financial pathways.

—
10
EarthGen Fka Wa Green Schools

EarthGens mission is to guide and support youth, educators, and school communities to become leaders for a healthy environment.

Environment
11
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
12
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School's Out Washington; the most unlike its peers is Black Dollar Days Task Force. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Seattle Public Schools: $6,400,710 · OtherSeattle Public Schools+3 more: $211,683 · OtherLeague of Education Voters: $1,447,310 · Civil RightsLeague of Educatio…EQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION: $150,000 · EducationTNTP INC: $70,468 · EducationROOTS OF INCLUSION: $65,925 · Education+2 more: $12,338 · EducationOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $119,183 · Human ServicesEvergreen Childrens Association DBA Kids Co: $93,685 · Human ServicesSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE: $46,823 · Youth DevelopmentSCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSolid Ground Washington: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterTILTH ALLIANCE: $30,000 · EnvironmentBlack Dollar Days Task Force: $11,350 · Community Improvement
Other$6,612,393Civil Rights$1,447,310Education$298,731Human Services$212,868Youth Development$141,823Housing & Shelter$75,000Environment$30,000Community Improvement$11,350

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 budgetLeague of Education Voters: $1,447,310 over 6y, 99% of budgetOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $119,183 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ARC - KING COUNTY: $111,683 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetEvergreen Childrens Association DBA Kids Co: $93,685 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING: $85,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTNTP INC: $70,468 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $46,823 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTILTH ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBlack Dollar Days Task Force: $11,350 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSPEAK WITH PURPOSE: $5,671 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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.

Seattle FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Stolte Family Foundat…The Satterberg Founda…Inatai FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Gates FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Inatai Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gates Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 LEV Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from LEV Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 18 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 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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