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Levine Family Foundation Fka Michael & Carol Levine Foundation at a glance

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Levine Family Foundation Fka Michael & Carol Levine 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.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$85kFood & Nutrition$40kPhilanthropy$35kHousing & Shelter$20kEmployment$15kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$598k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$55,000
PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION$15,000
NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC$15,000
OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$5,000
OAKLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
ANTHONY CHABOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOCIALGOOD FUND INC: $20k → 9%OAKLAND COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10k → 10%DANCERS GROUP: $5k → 10%NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $20k → 13%WORLD CENTRAL KITHCHEN: $5k → 14%OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $5k → 10%NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $15k → 13%CHABOT PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $15k → 13%ISEEED: $15k → 10%CAMP TREETOPS: $15k → 13%PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $15k → 13%ST MARYS CENTER: $10k → 10%BAY AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 10%TEMPLE SINAI: $5k → 10%MY OTHER BROTHER: $55k → 10%MY OTHER BROTHER: $35k → 10%EAST OAKLAND BOXING ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%OAKLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 10%MY OTHER BROTHER: $20k → 10%ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $20k → 10%ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $15k → 10%ACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN ARM PROJECTS: $5k → 10%ANTHONY CHABOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $5k → 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.
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$210k · 3 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$210k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
-11%

Still filing today

67%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEmploymentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $110k
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +75%
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • DO
    DIGITAL ORGANIZING POWER-BUILDING AND ENGAGEMENT LABS (DOPE LABS)
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -11%
  • EO
    EAST OAKLAND BOXING ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -54%
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
Common Vision

Grounded at the intersection of education, food, and the environment, Common Vision nourishes the transformation of urban landscapes so that healthy communities flourish for generations to come.

Environment
2
Oakland Kids First

The mission of Oakland Kids First is to increase youth voice, leadership and power to create engaging and equitable public schools where all students learn and lead.

Youth Development
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
The East Oakland Collective

The East Oakland Collective supports residents of East Oakland, prioritizing Black residents, to navigate challenges and barriers to inequities through resource distribution and advocacy. We work towards racial and economic justice and…

Community Improvement
5
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
6
Oakland Fund for Public Innovation

The Oakland Fund reaches across the city, engaging private partners to innovate, test and scale ideas that enhance Oakland. The Fund strives to improve the prosperity, safety and quality of life for all Oaklanders with projects that: build…

Community Improvement
7
Alchemist Cdc

Alchemist cdc connects sacramento area communities to land, food, and opportunity toward a vision in which all neighborhoods are vibrant, equitable, healthy, and diverse. we are best known for enhancing the quality of life in…

Community Improvement
8
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
9
Education for Change

To provide a superior public education to oakland's most underserved children by creating a system of public schools that relentlessly focuses on students' academic achievement.

Education
10
Impact Oakland Now
Community Improvement
11
Alameda Emergency Food Dba Alameda Food Bank

Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.

Food & Nutrition
12
Foodwise Community

Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oakland Public Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is Bay Area Community Services Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $65,000 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INCALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $35,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEAST OAKLAND BOXING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherST MARY'S CENTER: $10,000 · OtherBay Area Community Services Inc: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $20,000 · Other+4 moreSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 · EducationDIGITAL ORGANIZING POWER-BUILDING AND ENGAGEMENT LABS (DOPE LABS): $15,000 · EmploymentPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyOakland Community Land Trust: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalDANCERS GROUP: $5,000 · Arts & CultureACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$275,000Education$25,000Employment$15,000Philanthropy$15,000Housing & Shelter$10,000International$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Youth Development$5,000

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 budgetNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGITAL ORGANIZING POWER-BUILDING AND ENGAGEMENT LABS (DOPE LABS): $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST OAKLAND BOXING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST MARY'S CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBay Area Community Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Community Land Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCERS GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTHONY CHABOT ELEMENTARY PTA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…California Healthcare…The California Endowm…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
East Bay Community FoundationCA19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Healthcare Foundation · The California Endowment · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Levine Family Foundation Fka Michael & Carol Levine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Levine Family Foundation Fka Michael & Carol Levine Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    8report 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.

    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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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