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Levy Giving Fund Inc

Provide funds, goods and support to local/community non-profits.

$139k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$153kAnimals$57kCommunity Improvement$38kEducation$36kHuman Services$26k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $100,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $138,636 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,336 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
$10,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Family Children's Hospital$42,700
Saint John's School$25,300
Heartland$10,300
Ronald McDonald House Charity of Wisconsin$10,000
Gildas Club of Madison$6,000
Madison Reading Project$6,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Goodman Community Center: $8k → 10%DAiS (Domestic Abuse Intervention Services): $7k → 10%Gilda's Club Madison: $12k → 10%Gilda's Club of Madison: $10k → 10%Gilda's Club Madison: $10k → 10%Gildas Club of Madison: $6k → 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$186k · 6 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$186k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +33%
  • HF
    HEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +1%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • CC
    CURTIS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF HAGAR TOWNSHIP
    one grant, 2024 · $38k
  • IA
    IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +32%
  • DA
    DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -1%
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
Madison Art Gallery
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2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
4
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc

The mission of gundersen lutheran medical foundation, inc. is to improve the lives of patients and our larger community through medical education, research, outreach, and the philanthropic support of gundersen health system.

Health
5
Madison County Community Hospital

Madison health's vision is to provide exceptional healthcare in a respectful, compassionate, and healing environment.

Health
6
The Morgridge Institute for Research Inc

Our mission is to improve human health by conducting, enabling and translating innovative, interdisciplinary biomedical research in partnership with the university of wisconsin-madison and others, by leveraging our collective strength in…

Health
7
Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy
8
The Madison Waldorf School Ltd

The madison waldorf school is an independent day school located in madison wisconsin, and a developing member of the association of waldorf schools of north america.

Education
9
Madison Area Rehabilitation Centers Inc

Marc, inc. advocates for the full inclusion of all individuals with disabilities in the life of their community. we do so by fostering opportunities for individuals with disabilities to develop a sense of self-worth and dignity, while…

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10
United Way of Dane County Foundation Inc

The United Way of Dane County Foundation, Inc. exists to support the United Way of Dane County mission: to unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives. By providing a base of support, the Foundation helps United Way…

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11
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
12
Madison Children's Museum Inc

Madison children's museum connects children with their families, their communities, and the world beyond through discovery learning and creative play. madison children's museum strives to be a welcoming, imaginative, joyful learning…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Domestic Abuse Intervention 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HOSPITALS AND CLINICS AUTHORITY: $42,700 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HOSPI…CURTIS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF HAGAR TOWNSHIP: $38,000 · OtherCURTIS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $57,555 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCON…HEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY INC: $37,750 · AnimalsHEARTLAND FARM SANCT…Czars Promise Inc: $19,500 · AnimalsCzars Promise IncGILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC: $37,845 · Human ServicesGILDA'S CLUB MADIS…IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT…DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE INT…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC: $22,000 · HealthRONALD MC…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,100 · HealthST JUDE C…CANDID: $25,300 · PhilanthropyCANDIDMADISON READING PROJECT INC: $11,000 · Youth Development
Other$80,700Education$57,555Animals$57,250Human Services$51,845Health$27,100Philanthropy$25,300Youth Development$11,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $57,555 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC: $37,845 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY INC: $37,750 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCANDID: $25,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCzars Promise Inc: $19,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Madison Community Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Alliant Energy Founda…Madison Investments F…Kalscheur Family Foun…United Way of Dane Co…The Blackbaud Giving …Baird Foundation IncThe Leola Culver Fami…Veridian Foundation I…Only in Wisconsin Giv…Trustage Foundation I…
Madison Community FoundationWI19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Investments Foundation Inc · Kalscheur Family Foundation · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · The Leola Culver Family Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · Only in Wisconsin Giving Inc · Trustage Foundation 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 Levy Giving Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Levy Giving Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to Levy Giving Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Levy Giving Fund Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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