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Levine Family Charitable 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Temple Ramat Zion | $6,070 |
| LAVC Foundation | $2,550 |
| Pacific Battleship Center | $2,500 |
| Seedhouse Project | $2,150 |
| Project Worthmore | $1,650 |
| San Fernando Valley Refugee Childrens Center | $1,500 |
| California Academy of Sciences | $1,500 |
| Skirball Cultural Center | $1,500 |
| American Southwest Railway Association | $1,000 |
| Valey Beth Shalom | $1,000 |
| EarthEcho International | $1,000 |
| California Science Center | $1,000 |
| The Guardianorg Foundation | $1,000 |
| International Council of Museums | $500 |
| Discovery Cube | $425 |
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 (FY22–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- GLGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +19%
- PBPACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +198%
- OONEGENERATION2× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- LALos Angeles Fleetweek Foundationone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MFMy Friends Placeone grant, 2023 · $3k
- ICINTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +7%
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.
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We inspire and educate young minds through engaging science-based programs and exhibits to create a meaningful impact on the communities we serve.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The california museum - home of the california hall of fame - engages, educates and enlightens people about california's rich history, its diversity, and its unique influence on the world of ideas, innovation, art, and culture. through…
The san diego museum of man, dba museum of us, sits on the unceded ancestral homelands of the kumeyaay nation, in san diegos balboa park. the museum of us extends its respect and gratitude to the kumeyaay peoples who have lived here for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Los Angeles River and the most unlike its peers is San Fernando Valley Refugee Children Center Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 48 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 GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WORTHMORE ↗
- Who funds SHAREWELL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Seed House Project ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD POST NO 43 THE AMERICAN LEGI ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES ↗
- Who funds SAVING INNOCENCE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American Friends of the Prado Museum ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Perlman Family Foundation · Ccf Community Initiatives Fund · The J Paul Getty Trust · Liberty Hill Foundation
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 Levine Family Charitable 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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