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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.

$183k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$208kHuman Services$197kHousing & Shelter$114kHealth$113kInternational$100kCivil Rights$90kFood & Nutrition$84kEducation$76kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $69k
$8,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASYLUM WORKS$15,000
NORCAL RESIST$12,000
SOLUTIONS IN HOMETOWN CONNECTIONS$12,000
COMMUNITY HOME REPAIR PROJECTS OF ARIZONA INC$10,000
NEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT$10,000
CASA SAN JOSE$10,000
VALLEJO PROJECT (VASA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES)$9,000
WHOLLY H20 (INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC)$9,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON$8,000
EDUCATOR COLLECTIVE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE$8,000
CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE$8,000
INCLUSIVE ACADEMY$8,000
CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT$8,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ALLEGHANIES$8,000
TUCSON INTERFAITH HIVAIDS NETWORK$8,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YARNELL REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%NORTHLAND HOSPICE: $4k → 16%CASA SAN JOSE: $10k → 11%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $3k → 17%TOUCHING HEART: $5k → 6%CASA SAN JOSE: $10k → 11%SOLUTIONS IN HOMETOWN CONNECTIONS: $12k → 11%KEEPING TEACHERS TEACHING: $5k → 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $8k → 11%SOLUTIONS IN HOMETOWN CONNECTIONS: $8k → 11%KEEPING TEACHERS TEACHING: $4k → 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $8k → 11%SOLUTIONS IN HOMETOWN CONNECTIONS: $8k → 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $8k → 11%SOLUTIONS IN HOMETOWN CONNECTIONS: $8k → 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $8k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF PITTSBURGH: $4k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%CENTER FOR FAMILY EXCELLENCE: $2k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON: $8k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUSCON: $8k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUSCON: $6k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON INC: $6k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUSCON: $6k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON INC: $6k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON: $6k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $5k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $3k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 41 repeat orgs$236k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
44

Total granted

$1.0M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+3%

Still filing today

76%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • A
    AsylumWorks
    8× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +363%
  • CS
    CASA SAN JOSE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +117%
  • CH
    Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona
    6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • NR
    NORCAL RESIST PRO SE ASYLUM CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • OC
    OAKLAND COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR EQUITY
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
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
Arizona Wins

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…

Civil Rights
2
Just Communities Arizona

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…

Housing & Shelter
3
Pro-Choice Arizona

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…

Health
4
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
5
Poder in Action

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…

Public Benefit
6
Corazon Az

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,…

Civil Rights
7
Institute for Public Strategies

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…

Health
8
Active San Gabriel Valley

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.

Community Improvement
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
10
Puente Human Rights Movement

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.

Human Services
11
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

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.

International
12
Immigrants Rising

We empower people to achieve their educational and career goals through personal, institutional and policy transformation.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Resilience Project; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 92 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ALLEGHANIES: $28,000 · OtherSABINO CANYON VOLUNTEER NATURALISTS: $22,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT: $31,000 · OtherCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $51,000 · OtherCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENTTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC: $44,000 · OtherTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INCOPERA NOVA: $33,000 · OtherOPERA NOVATherapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc: $27,000 · Other+54 more: $332,500 · Other+54 moreCASA SAN JOSE: $52,000 · Human ServicesCASA SAN JOSEVIVA PIMA: $46,000 · Human ServicesVIVA PIMASolutions in Hometown Connections: $36,000 · Human ServicesSolutions in Home…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $16,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND…YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $10,000 · Human ServicesKEEPING TEACHERS TEACHING INC: $9,000 · Human Services+7 more: $23,200 · Human Services+7 moreAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $43,000 · EnvironmentAsian Pacifi…COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $42,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES …Planting Justice: $32,000 · EnvironmentPlanting Jus…Earth Island Institute Inc: $20,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island…THE GREEN SCHEME: $5,000 · EnvironmentCommunity Home Repair Projects of Arizona: $51,000 · Housing & ShelterSister Jose Women's Center: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterAsylumWorks: $85,000 · InternationalHIGHLAND SUPPORT PROJECT: $8,000 · InternationalEducator Collective For Envionmental Justice Inc: $30,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $25,000 · EducationINclusive Academy: $8,000 · EducationVASA Educational Services: $6,500 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $4,000 · EducationNorCal Resist: $38,000 · Civil RightsCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 · Civil RightsENLIGHTENING MINDS INC: $6,000 · Civil Rights
Other$589,500Human Services$192,200Environment$142,000Housing & Shelter$96,000International$93,000Education$73,500Civil Rights$64,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAsylumWorks: $85,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE: $52,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Home Repair Projects of Arizona: $51,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $51,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetVIVA PIMA: $46,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetSister Jose Women's Center: $45,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC: $44,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $43,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $42,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNorCal Resist: $38,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSolutions in Hometown Connections: $36,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetOPERA NOVA: $33,000 over 8y, 57% of budgetPlanting Justice: $32,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT: $31,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetEducator Collective For Envionmental Justice Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetTherapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc: $27,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTucson Interfaith HIVAIDS Network: $19,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BETTER BLOCK INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKEEPING TEACHERS TEACHING INC: $9,000 over 2y, 13% of budget4MONTGOMERYS KIDS INC: $9,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCLOSE UP FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAVEN: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND SUPPORT PROJECT: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetArts for All Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSagrado Wellness: $7,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMINDS INCORPORATED: $7,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetVASA Educational Services: $6,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTOUCHING HEART: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTREASURES 4 EDUCATORS INC DBA TREASURES 4 TEACHERS OF TUCSON: $5,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCOLIBRI CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUMAR BOXING PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE GREEN SCHEME: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEarth Force Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPIDAURUS DBA AMITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHLAND HOSPICE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYarnell Regional Community Center: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetA CHANCE IN LIFEINC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssemble Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds AsylumWorks ↗
  • Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
  • Who funds Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona ↗
  • Who funds CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT ↗
  • 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 INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds UPWARD FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds THE HAVEN ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Connie Hillman Family…Arizona Community Fou…Richard King Mellon F…The Heinz EndowmentsThe Pittsburgh Founda…Diamond FoundationThe Hs Lopez Family F…United Way of Tucson …Opportunity FoundationPoise FoundationHillman Family Founda…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Leveler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leveler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Leveler Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Leveler Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 92 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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