Illinois · Private foundation
Leva Family Foundation
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.
- $503k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 142
- Grants FY2025
- 121
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 68 to 121
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Leva Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 113 | $467k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 121 | $413k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 112 | $373k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $260k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $271k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $435k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medline Industries Inc | $138,072 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $112,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $52,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $51,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Spark Ventures | $38,524 | 6 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $36,000 | 5 | 0% |
| North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cancer Wellness Center | $25,818 | 6 | 0% |
| Facing Forward to End Homelessness | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 106 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 247 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leva Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Highland Park Community Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · First Bank Chicago Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy
How this is measured
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About Leva Family Foundation
- How much does Leva Family Foundation give?
- Leva Family Foundation reported 142 grants totaling $503,101 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 121 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Leva Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (15%), Health (15%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Leva Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Medline Industries Inc ($138k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($112k), Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($65k).
- Does Leva Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leva Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Leva Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Circle of Service Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Leva Family Foundation based?
- Leva Family Foundation is based in IL.
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