· Private foundation
Norman & Marilyn Leven Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $20,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| TEMPLE EMMANUEL | $2,345 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,137 |
| UM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| WESTMINSTER FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY | $1,000 |
| BROADWAY GRAND RAPIDS | $1,000 |
| NASBA | $500 |
| FAITH HOSPICE | $500 |
| OLIVIAS GIFT | $300 |
| FIRST TEE GRAND RAPIDS | $200 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HOHospice of Michigan Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +46%
- MLMIGRANT LEGAL AID INC4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +3%
- JTJEWISH THEATRE GRAND RAPIDS2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- JJFGRone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CCEMETERYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- HHOSPICEone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
We honor life through donation.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
Creating healthy communities - together
Creating healthy communities - together
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 68 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Frey Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Gillett Family Foundation · Wolverine World Wide Foundation · The Korff Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Norman & Marilyn Leven Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman & Marilyn Leven Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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