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Noel and Harriette Levine Foundation Inc at a glance

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Noel and Harriette Levine Foundation Inc

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.

$522k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$17MCivil Rights$755kInternational$425kHealth$85kPhilanthropy$55kRecreation & Sports$25kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $162k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM$300,000
NATIONAL GALLERY$50,000
THE BRICK$25,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$25,000
ASIA SOCIETY$25,000
KENNEDY CENTER$25,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$25,000
NEW YORK CITY CENTER$15,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$12,000
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$10,000
MT SINAI HOSPITAL$5,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NANTUCKET HISTORIAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%THE BRICK: $25k → 14%American Jewish Committee: $750k → 9%Friends of The High Line: $3k → 17%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $50k → 14%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $25k → 17%KENNEDY CENTER: $50k → 14%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%KENNEDY CENTER: $25k → 14%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $10k → 17%HIRSHHORN MUSEUM: $10k → 14%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $5k → 17%Asia Society: $125k → 17%Asia Society: $100k → 17%Asia Society: $100k → 17%Asia Society: $50k → 17%ASIA SOCIETY: $25k → 17%ASIA SOCIETY: $25k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $12k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $12k → 17%MET SPRING GALA: $10k → 17%The Museum of Modern Art: $2.5M → 17%The Museum of Modern Art: $2.5M → 17%MT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $25k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $15k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $10k → 17%New York City Center: $10k → 17%New York City Center: $5k → 17%GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: $300k → 17%WORKS & PROCESS: $5k → 17%American Friends of the Israel Museum: $4.4M → 17%American Friends of the Israel Museum: $2.2M → 17%American Friends of the Israel Museum: $2.2M → 17%ISRAEL MUSEUM: $2.2M → 17%MT SINAI HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MT SINAI: $50k → 17%MT SINAI HOSPITAL: $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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 7 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$14M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
+22%

Still filing today

71%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
    3× · 2019–2022 · $8.9M · revenue -39%
  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5.0M · revenue -18%
  • TA
    THE ASIA SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $425k · revenue -16%

Funded once

  • IM
    ISRAEL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $2.2M
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $750k · revenue +39%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
5
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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10
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
11
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
12
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Modern Art; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

14 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. 14 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $8,870,267 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUMMuseum of Modern Art: $5,000,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art+6 more: $106,500 · Arts & CultureISRAEL MUSEUM: $2,217,566 · OtherISRAEL MUSEUMGUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: $300,000 · OtherGUGGENHEIM MUSEUMTHE KENNEDY CENTER: $125,000 · Other+7 more: $150,000 · Other+7 moreAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $750,000 · Civil RightsTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $425,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50,000 · EducationUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$13,976,767Other$2,792,566Civil Rights$750,000International$435,000Education$50,000Philanthropy$30,000Recreation & Sports$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $8,870,267 over 3y, 20% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $5,000,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $750,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $425,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRICK: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKS AND PROCESS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $2,500 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Noel and Harriette Levine Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Noel and Harriette Levine Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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