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Leveler 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASYLUM WORKS | $15,000 |
| NORCAL RESIST | $12,000 |
| SOLUTIONS IN HOMETOWN CONNECTIONS | $12,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOME REPAIR PROJECTS OF ARIZONA INC | $10,000 |
| CASA SAN JOSE | $10,000 |
| WHOLLY H20 (INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC) | $9,000 |
| VALLEJO PROJECT (VASA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES) | $9,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ALLEGHANIES | $8,000 |
| TUCSON INTERFAITH HIVAIDS NETWORK | $8,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON | $8,000 |
| EDUCATOR COLLECTIVE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE | $8,000 |
| CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT | $8,000 |
| INCLUSIVE ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +69% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 7 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- AAsylumWorks8× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +363%
- CSCASA SAN JOSE6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +117%
- COCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT7× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- NRNORCAL RESIST PRO SE ASYLUM CLINICone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $9k
- OCOAKLAND COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR EQUITYone grant, 2019 · $9k
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.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
To create, foster, and resource new models for safety and justice outside the punishment system. We work with people impacted by the punishment system to promote a holistic view of safety that encompasses physical, emotional, and economic…
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
Poder in Action is an anchor organization that is shifting the landscape of social justice, community development, and community driven public policy by training under represented, low income Arizonans to engage stakeholders in meaningful…
CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…
Institute of Public Strategies (IPS) is a nonprofit corporation that receives its funding from local and federal governmental agencies and private foundations, through long-term grants or contracts to provide community-level services…
Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The puente human rights movement is a migrant worker justice foundation based in phoenix, az. we develop, educate, and empower migrant communities to protect and defend our families and ourselves.
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
We empower people to achieve their educational and career goals through personal, institutional and policy transformation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Resilience Project and the most unlike its peers is Opera Nova. 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 29 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 92 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
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 AsylumWorks ↗
- Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona ↗
- Who funds VIVA PIMA ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Environmental Network ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds NorCal Resist ↗
- Who funds Solutions in Hometown Connections ↗
- Who funds OPERA NOVA ↗
- Who funds Planting Justice ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Educator Collective For Envionmental Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Tucson Interfaith HIVAIDS Network ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BETTER BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds KEEPING TEACHERS TEACHING INC ↗
- Who funds 4MONTGOMERYS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CLOSE UP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INclusive Academy ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Diamond Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Opportunity Foundation · Poise Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations
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 Leveler 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.
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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