· Private foundation
Levitt Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $586k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BROTHERHOODSISTER SOL INC | $40,000 |
| GROW NYC | $35,000 |
| CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $35,000 |
| QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN | $35,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY | $35,000 |
| MADISON SQUARE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION INC | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC | $35,000 |
| EQUITY ADVOCATES | $30,000 |
| THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER | $30,000 |
| GREEN CITY FORCE | $30,000 |
| THE URBAN WILD INC | $30,000 |
| HARLEM GROWN | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD ADVOCATES | $30,000 |
| URBAN JUSTICE CENTER | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 13 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- MMMARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $240k · revenue +47%
- SISCAN-HARBOR INC7× · 2018–2024 · $235k · revenue +72%
- TCTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +504%
Funded once
- CNCLAREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +62%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $35k
- AVAdded Value & Herban Solutions Incone grant, 2018 · $30k
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.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
The goal of Farm School NYC is to train the next generation of farmers in New York City and beyond, with a focus on limited resourced and socially disadvantaged individuals and communities, and to increase access to healthy, local food in…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
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Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Through our original curriculum design that uses innovative growing spaces on rooftop farms, in school gardens, and public parks - city growers fosters a love of nature and encourages nyc youth to consider their place, agency, and future…
Uwnyc works with a coalition of trusted partners to unite community power with citywide possibility. together, we meet today's most urgent needs while building transformative solutions for tomorrow - striving for health, opportunity, and…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Directions for Our Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 134 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 MARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCAN-HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUITY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds URBAN WILD INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREEN GUERILLAS INC ↗
- Who funds BK ROT INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKAWAY WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TREES NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FamilyCook Community Table Ltd DBA FamilyCook Productions ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKAWAY YOUTH TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds LANTERN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JUST FOOD ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST BROOKLYN HOUSING DEVELOP ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds THE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Madison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc ↗
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: United Way of New York City · Pinkerton Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The New York Community Trust · City Parks Foundation Inc · North Star Fund Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Surdna Foundation Inc
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 Levitt Foundation Inc 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.
- Third Sector Capital Partners Inc — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
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.