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Levi Strauss Foundation at a glance

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Levi Strauss Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9.6M
Granted FY2022
76
Grants FY2022
16
States reached
$507k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

85% of Levi Strauss Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Levi Strauss Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 51 organizations, $10M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

47
’17
53
’19
55
’20
46
’21
51
’22
12
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Philanthropy$14MCivil Rights$13MInternational$8.8MCommunity Improvement$3.7MHealth$3.4MEmployment$2.6MHuman Services$2.2MEducation$2.2MOther$0
02FY2022 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k65 grants · $8.2M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$100,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$81M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$507,211
WORKING PARTNERSHIPS USA$276,833
CAIR SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA$276,833
PANGEA LEGAL SERVICES$276,833
ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$235,833
SOMOS MAYFAIR$228,043
MIJENTE$226,833
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS$226,833
THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT$226,833
FAITH IN ACTION$226,833
APIENC$206,000
CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE$206,000
INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT$200,000
ANTI POLICE-TERROR PROJECT$200,000
AIDS UNITED$200,000
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.

US giving: 80% of grant dollars ($45M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($11M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $3.0M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REPOWER FUND: $153k → 11%IT TAKES PHILLY ENCOURAGING AND EMPOWERING OUR CHILDREN TO AIM HIGH: $50k → 7%FAITH IN ACTION: $250k → 7%AL OTRO LADO INC: $25k → 11%THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $30k → 16%DEFINE AMERICAN: $150k → 15%RE POWER FUND: $80k → 11%EL PUEBLO: $120k → 8%DEFINE AMERICAN: $75k → 15%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $50k → 14%DEFINE AMERICAN: $50k → 15%THE AFIYA CENTER: $170k → 14%FREEFROM: $125k → 14%FREEFROM: $100k → 14%FREEFROM: $100k → 14%AL OTRO LADO INC: $50k → 14%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $200k → 17%MORE IN COMMON INC: $150k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $150k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $200k → 17%FAITH IN ACTION: $100k → 10%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $100k → 17%REMAKE: $120k → 10%FAITH IN ACTION: $227k → 10%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
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 20% of all-years giving ($11M)

32 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$2.6M · 16 grants
Mexico$1.4M · 15 grants
Netherlands$840k · 8 grants
India$692k · 7 grants
Switzerland$650k · 6 grants
Canada$525k · 7 grants
South Africa$510k · 6 grants
Brazil$430k · 5 grants
Nicaragua$330k · 4 grants
Sri Lanka$326k · 6 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 31% of Levi Strauss Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Levi Strauss Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 29% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 107 repeat orgs$9.0M to everyone else

107 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2022, 75 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
84

Total granted

$34M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+54%

Still filing today

63%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • AIDS UNITED
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +11%
  • Transgender Law Center
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +202%
  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $825k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $180k · revenue -46%
  • CA
    CHANGE ASSOCIATES LTD
    one grant, 2021 · $170k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $157k
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
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
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
4
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
5
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
6
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
7
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
8
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
11
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
12
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repower Fund; the most unlike its peers is Southern Black Policy & Advocacy Network. 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

144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 243 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
143/144
Grantees still filing
95/144
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $2,300,000 · OtherUK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION+125 more: $20,987,468 · Other+125 moreAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,387,415 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATI…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,050,500 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERIC…INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION - WORLDWIDE INC: $675,000 · PhilanthropyMSI US: $600,000 · Philanthropy+12 more: $1,709,000 · Philanthropy+12 moreTransgender Law Center: $1,005,000 · Civil RightsTransgender L…ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $710,833 · Civil RightsELLA BAKER CE…UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $575,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DRE…National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $575,000 · Civil RightsNational Dome…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $507,211 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FO…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $475,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMI…Chinese for Affirmative Action: $370,833 · Civil RightsChinese for A…ONE FAIR WAGE INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC: $290,000 · Civil RightsTHE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT: $276,833 · Civil Rights+13 more: $1,480,000 · Civil Rights+13 moreFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $775,000 · Community ImprovementLA COCINA: $430,000 · Community ImprovementMISSION ASSET FUND: $400,000 · Community ImprovementFAIR COUNT INC: $375,000 · Community ImprovementPOWER CALIFORNIA: $340,000 · Community ImprovementSOMOS MAYFAIR INC: $278,043 · Community ImprovementMIJENTE: $276,833 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $180,000 · Community ImprovementHorizons Foundation: $121,400 · Community Improvement+2 more: $152,760 · Community ImprovementINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $650,000 · Human ServicesFAITH IN ACTION: $576,833 · Human ServicesFreefrom: $325,000 · Human ServicesDEFINE AMERICAN INC: $275,000 · Human ServicesREPOWER FUND: $232,500 · Human ServicesASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE AFIYA CENTER: $170,000 · Human ServicesMORE IN COMMON INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesRemake: $120,000 · Human ServicesEL PUEBLO INC: $120,000 · Human Services+3 more: $175,000 · Human ServicesAIDS UNITED: $1,580,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $467,000 · EducationBUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $148,000 · EducationASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $120,000 · EducationCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $825,000 · InternationalURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $410,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $350,000 · InternationalMERCADO GLOBAL INC: $285,000 · InternationalFUNDERS CONCERNED ABOUT AIDS INC: $175,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $100,000 · International+1 more: $60,000 · International
Other$23,287,468Philanthropy$15,421,915Civil Rights$6,565,710Community Improvement$3,329,036Human Services$2,994,333Education$2,315,000International$2,205,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,387,415 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,050,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAIDS UNITED: $1,580,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $1,005,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $825,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $775,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $710,833 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION - WORLDWIDE INC: $675,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $650,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMSI US: $600,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA: $586,833 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION: $576,833 over 3y, 70% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $575,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $575,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPangea Legal Services: $531,833 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $507,211 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVISIONSPRING INC: $500,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $475,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $467,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS: $461,833 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $450,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLA COCINA: $430,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $410,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetMISSION ASSET FUND: $400,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFAIR COUNT INC: $375,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $370,833 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMe Too International Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: $345,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPOWER CALIFORNIA: $340,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $327,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFreefrom: $325,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $315,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $290,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC: $290,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetMERCADO GLOBAL INC: $285,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetSOMOS MAYFAIR INC: $278,043 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA: $276,833 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMIJENTE: $276,833 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetDEFINE AMERICAN INC: $275,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetREPOWER FUND: $232,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSOUTHERN BLACK POLICY & ADVOCACY NETWORK: $230,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetAsian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetST JAMES INFIRMARY: $225,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSERO PROJECT INC: $210,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetAnti Police-Terror Project Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 7.4% 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.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…The Ford FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Wellspring Philanthro…The David and Lucile …Tides FoundationThe William & Flora H…Foundation to Promote…Rockefeller Philanthr…Borealis PhilanthropySilicon Valley Commun…NEO Philanthropy Inc
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC62.8× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Verite Inc: 19% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 243 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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