· Private foundation
Michael and Andrea Leven Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $391k
- $50k–250k41 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORASHA OLAMI INC | $250,000 |
| ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION INC | $182,000 |
| P E F ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $155,000 |
| UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA | $150,000 |
| CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL JEWISH PHILANTHROPY | $150,000 |
| YEHUDI INC | $144,000 |
| AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT | $125,000 |
| P E F ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $125,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC | $110,000 |
| NAGEN PROJECT INC | $100,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF THE HOSPITALITY SALES AND MARKETING | $100,000 |
| OHR YISROEL OF BERGEN COUNTY INC | $100,000 |
| ISRAEL GLOBAL INITIATIVE FUND INC | $100,000 |
| BNAI BRITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $507k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Michael and Andrea Leven Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $641k 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
- AEALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +63%
- CFCenter for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +19% · 29% of their budget
- FFFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $975k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- JNJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INCone grant, 2023 · $200k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $110k · revenue +156%
- LILEADERSHIP INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $108k
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
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.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fuel Freedom Foundation. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 100 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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MORASHA OLAMI INC ↗
- Who funds CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Yehudi Inc ↗
- Who funds The King's College ↗
- Who funds ELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS ↗
- Who funds Fuente Latina Inc ↗
- Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SWC MUSEUM CORP ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Marcus Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Milstein Family Foundation · Fjc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Frank Family Foundation Inc · Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York 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 Michael and Andrea Leven Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Yehudi Inc — 0% of income from government
- Heroes to Heroes Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Torah Tots Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc — 0% 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.
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