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Litowitz Foundation Inc

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.6MInternational$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MEnvironment$979kAnimals$451kRecreation & Sports$314kHealth$222kYouth Development$163kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $455k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$12,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY$500,000
FRIENDS OF IDF$153,000
THE GL FOUNDATION FOR PEDRIATICS$125,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$100,000
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$77,250
VISION CASHIERS$27,500
WLRN$25,000
VILLAGE GREEN FOUNDATION$12,500
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$5,000
BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PROJECT VOTE SMART$1,000
THE AMERICAN ADVENTURE SERVICE CORP$1,000
GREENVILLE CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD I$500
SHABBOT SHALOM FAX OF LIFE$360
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC: $3k → 12%VISION CASHIERS: $28k → 18%VISION CASHIERS: $28k → 18%VISION CASHIERS INC: $5k → 18%VISION CASHIERS INC: $1k → 18%METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND: $15k → 8%METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND: $15k → 8%METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND: $15k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
NC
SC
DC
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 66 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

66 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
26

Total granted

$7.1M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+46%

Still filing today

45%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationInternationalAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +53%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $900k · revenue +26%
  • RP
    RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $790k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • GL
    GRAJEWSKI LYRA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADO
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TG
    THE GRAJEWSKI LYRA FOUND FOR PEDIAT
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
5
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation

The conservation fund is in the business of conservation, creating innovative solutions that drive nature-based action for climate protection, sustainable economies and vibrant communities.

Environment
6
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
7
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
8
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
9
Upstate Forever

Upstate forever is a conservation organization with a mission to protect critical lands, waters, and the unique character of the upstate of south carolina.

Environment
10
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc

To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.

Environment
11
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
12
Florida Conservation Group Inc

Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Discovery Center; the most unlike its peers is Southern Highlands Reserve 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

45 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. 45 of the 96 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
32/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DANFORTH MUSEUM OF ART: $420,000 · OtherDANFORTH MUSEUM OF ARTUNIVOF ILLINOIS COLLG OF DENTISTRY: $400,000 · OtherUNIVOF ILLINOIS COLLG OF DENTISTRYAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $252,250 · OtherAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETYWDCS INC: $240,000 · OtherWDCS INCIndividual grant recipient: $235,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE GL FOUNDATION FOR PEDRIATICS: $225,000 · OtherTHE GL FOUNDATION FOR PEDRIATICSWLRN: $225,000 · OtherWLRNBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEU: $109,500 · Other+58 more: $930,748 · Other+58 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,284,800 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $55,000 · International+2 more: $8,220 · InternationalRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $790,000 · EnvironmentRIVERSIDE PARK CONSE…NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $290,000 · EnvironmentNATIVE PLANT TRUST I…SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $215,000 · EnvironmentSUDBURY VALLEY TRUST…+3 more: $8,350 · EnvironmentAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $900,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVER…Cornell University: $95,000 · EducationCornell Univers…+3 more: $6,500 · EducationMARINE DISCOVERY CENTER: $210,000 · Arts & CultureIN HUMANITY FOOTSTEPS INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC: $23,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $18,000 · Arts & CultureSAVE A DOG INC: $96,000 · AnimalsBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $21,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsVISION CASHIERS INC: $61,000 · Human ServicesMETROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC: $45,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$3,037,498International$1,348,020Environment$1,303,350Education$1,001,500Arts & Culture$366,000Animals$132,000Human Services$109,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,284,800 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $900,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $790,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $290,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $215,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetMARINE DISCOVERY CENTER: $210,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetSAVE A DOG INC: $96,000 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetCornell University: $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVISION CASHIERS INC: $61,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetIN HUMANITY FOOTSTEPS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRodale Institute: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC: $45,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEAT OF THE SOUL CHAIR YOGA INC: $24,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetCOMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $21,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC: $19,900 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCASHIERS AREA LEGACY FUND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE IN POLITICS: $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ARTS IN NATICK INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSummit Charter School Foundation: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHABBOT SHALOM FAX OF LIFE INC: $1,720 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLittle Smiles Inc: $1,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Indian River Institute for the Creative Arts Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Adventure Service Corp: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKLAND CARES INC: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVECINOS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPerforming Arts Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $350 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A DOG INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds VISION CASHIERS INC ↗
  • Who funds IN HUMANITY FOOTSTEPS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SEAT OF THE SOUL CHAIR YOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Davis Foundation · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · Sarracenia Foundation Inc · A Friends Foundation Trust · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · The Marvin and Helene Gralnick Foundation Inc · Bug and Bean Fund · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust

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 Litowitz Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Litowitz Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc: 11% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • The Center for Arts in Natick Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
11report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Litowitz Foundation 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 96 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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