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Levison-Levy Charitable Trust Dba Niantic Charitable Trust

$145k
Granted FY2021
37
Grants FY2021
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of LEVISON-LEVY CHARITABLE TRUST DBA NIANTIC CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2021 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k36 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$241
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$10,000
SAFE AND SOUND$7,500
NEW MOMS$5,000
THE PHOENIX$5,000
CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME OF SACRAM$5,000
ARCS FOUNDATION INC$5,000
REINS OF LIFE$5,000
ANEW$5,000
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$5,000
HOLLINS UNIVERSITY$5,000
WELLESLEY CENTERS FOR WOMEN$5,000
MAKE-A-WISH NE CENTRA CA CHAPTOR$5,000
DELANCEY STREET FOUNDATION$5,000
SAFE AND SOUND$5,000
ST JUDE HOUSE$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%DREAMPOWER HORSEMANSHIP: $3k → 8%ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONA: $1k → 9%NEW MOMS: $5k → 14%DREAMPOWER HORSEMANSHIP: $2k → 8%DREAMPOWER HORSEMANSHIP: $2k → 8%DREAMPOWER HORSEMANSHIP: $2k → 8%LA LUZ CENTER: $2k → 9%DREAMPOWER HORSEMANSHIP: $3k → 8%LA LUZ CENTER: $1k → 9%CHICKS IN CRISIS: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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WA
IL
MA
IN
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$493k · 34 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2021, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
18

Total granted

$493k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+41%

Still filing today

62%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • SAFE & SOUND
    5× · 2017–2021 · $68k · revenue +81%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +62%
  • GT
    GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $33k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • FI
    FELTON INSTITUTE TAPP
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • ES
    EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT (CHEZ PANISSE FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • TI
    TREASURE ISLAND SAILING CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education
2
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
3
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
4
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
5
Association of California School Administrators

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.

6
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
7
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
8
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

11
Santa Catalina School

Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…

Education
12
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wooden Boats for Veterans. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsVulnerable Population Suppo…Dog and Cat RescueIndustry & Professional Ass…Elementary Charter SchoolsMulticultural Performing Ar…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr17%41%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr14%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr14%40%35–55yr14%31%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
11,465/85,552

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.

04the grantee network

38 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAFE & SOUND — $67,500 · OtherSAFE & SOUNDARCS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · OtherARCS FOUNDATION INCEDUCATIONAL TALL SHIP — $20,000 · OtherEDUCATIONAL TALL SHIPChildrens Receiving Home of Sacramento — $19,500 · OtherChildrens Receiving Home of SacramentoREINS OF LIFE INC — $15,000 · OtherMISSION DOLORES ACADEMY — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $12,500 · OtherONE PURPOSE SCHOOL INC — $12,500 · OtherANEW — $12,500 · OtherSACRAMENTO FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER — $12,000 · Other+33 more — $126,250 · Other+33 moreGRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION — $32,500 · EducationGRADUATE THEOLOGICAL …Wellesley College — $25,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $17,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES…HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $14,500 · EducationHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CO…Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance — $8,500 · EducationSonoma Valley Mentori…Northern Light School — $7,500 · EducationNorthern Light SchoolThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $4,500 · EducationWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WIL…+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentMARIN PERFORMING STARS — $18,000 · Arts & CultureThe Spaulding Wooden Boat Center — $12,500 · Arts & CultureThe Dreampower Foundation — $11,000 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesLA LUZ CENTER — $3,000 · Human ServicesChicks in Crisis Inc — $2,500 · Human ServicesALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL — $1,000 · Human ServicesCALL OF THE SEA — $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentISLESFORD BOATWORKS — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADUATE — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $11,750 · Crime & Legal
Other$337,750Education$110,000Environment$51,000Arts & Culture$30,500Human Services$22,500Youth Development$18,000Crime & Legal$11,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAFE & SOUND — $67,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION — $32,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Receiving Home of Sacramento — $19,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN PERFORMING STARS — $18,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREINS OF LIFE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALL OF THE SEA — $13,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetONE PURPOSE SCHOOL INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Spaulding Wooden Boat Center — $12,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $11,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Dreampower Foundation — $11,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDELANCEY STREET CALIFORNIA — $8,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance — $8,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSt Jude House Inc — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNorthern Light School — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEAVE INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Sacramento Inc — $6,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTreasure Island Sailing Center Foundation — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MOMS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLa Casa de las Madres — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA LUZ CENTER — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicks in Crisis Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetISLESFORD BOATWORKS — $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODEN BOATS FOR VETERANS — $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY MARIN — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 SAFE & SOUND
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION
  • Who funds Wellesley College
  • Who funds Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento
  • Who funds MARIN PERFORMING STARS
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC
  • Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
  • Who funds CALL OF THE SEA
  • Who funds ONE PURPOSE SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds The Spaulding Wooden Boat Center
  • Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
  • Who funds The Dreampower Foundation
  • Who funds DELANCEY STREET CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance
  • Who funds St Jude House Inc
  • Who funds Northern Light School
  • Who funds WEAVE INC
  • Who funds Junior League of Sacramento Inc
  • Who funds Treasure Island Sailing Center Foundation
  • Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC
  • Who funds NEW MOMS INC
  • Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute
  • Who funds La Casa de las Madres
  • Who funds LA LUZ CENTER

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA26.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Olympic Club Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · Miranda Lux Foundation · Mary a Crocker Trust · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The James Irvine 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 Levison-Levy Charitable Trust Dba Niantic Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Levison-Levy Charitable Trust Dba Niantic Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Levison-Levy Charitable Trust Dba Niantic Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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