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Lovell Family Ltd at a glance

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Lovell Family Ltd

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.

$577k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$285k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Religion$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.4MEducation$582kArts & Culture$578kHealth$146kHuman Services$100kInternational$96kCivil Rights$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $162k
  • $250k+1 grant · $285k
$45,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$285,000
THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA$105,000
SCHECHTER INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES$56,666
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$45,000
THE LEFFELL SCHOOL$45,000
CHAMAH$15,000
ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND$15,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$5,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL$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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GIDEONS PROMISE: $2k → 13%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $15k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $15k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $10k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $10k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $10k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $10k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $10k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $5k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $5k → 17%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
MD
DC
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 24 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
20

Total granted

$4.6M
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+35%

Still filing today

29%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +39%
  • HA
    HAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +106%
  • IS
    ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • TI
    TEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $27k
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +48%
  • HI
    HADAR INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
4
University of Judaism Foundation
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5
The Jerusalem Connection
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6
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
7
Jewish Year Abroad

To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about

International
8
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
9
Dorot Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
11
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
12
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

19 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. 19 of the 46 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $1,313,000 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICASCHECHTER INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES: $412,666 · OtherSCHECHTER INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIESTHE LEFFELL SCHOOL: $270,000 · OtherTHE LEFFELL SCHOOLSOLOMON SCHECTER DAY SCHOOL: $179,000 · OtherSOLOMON SCHECTER DAY SCHOOLNORTHERN PALM BEACH COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $125,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $118,000 · OtherCHAMAH: $108,500 · Other+28 more: $565,160 · Other+28 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,422,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION O…ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $90,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,800 · Human ServicesBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50,000 · HealthAICE INC AMERICAN-ISRAELI COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE: $30,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $15,000 · InternationalKBY Congregations Together Inc: $12,000 · ReligionMOVING TRADITIONS: $10,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $5,000 · ReligionCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC: $2,500 · ReligionANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 · Civil Rights
Other$3,091,326Philanthropy$1,422,000Human Services$91,800Health$50,000International$45,000Religion$29,500Civil Rights$25,000

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,422,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY: $95,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $90,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAICE INC AMERICAN-ISRAELI COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE: $30,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKBY Congregations Together Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEN PORAT YOSEF INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIDEONS PROMISE INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Neot Kedumim: $1,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds HAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds AICE INC AMERICAN-ISRAELI COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ISRAEL PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds KBY Congregations Together Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds BEN PORAT YOSEF INC ↗
  • Who funds CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP 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.

Jewish Communal FundFjcCombined Jewish Phila…Jewish Federation of …The Jewish Federation…United Jewish Appeal-…National Philanthropi…Jewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Community Fede…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Rosalie Katz Fami…
Jewish Communal FundNY25.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Rosalie Katz Family 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 Lovell Family Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lovell Family Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%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
    3get no government money at all
    2report 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.

    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 46 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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