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Paul and Lea Levine Foundation at a glance

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Paul and Lea Levine 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.

$300k
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$1.0MHealth$677kEducation$253kPhilanthropy$49kHuman Services$34kReligion$5kFood & Nutrition$4kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $148k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$2,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC Davis Vet Medical Center$72,000
Ohio State University$20,000
Colorado State Vet Med$14,000
San Diego Humane Society$12,500
University of Florida College of Ve$12,000
College of Veterninary Medicine Cor$11,200
Individual grant recipient$10,800
UW Found Feline Health Fund$8,000
Dee's Rescue$7,500
Project Animal Aid$7,500
NCVMF$6,000
Stray Cat Alliance$5,400
LIU College of Veterinary Medicine$5,000
Best Friends Animal Society$5,000
Oregon State University Foundation$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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Better Together Animal Society: $20k → 12%College of Veterninary Medicine Cor: $14k → 16%Abandoned Pet Rescue: $40k → 13%University of Florida College of Ve: $15k → 19%UW Found Feline Health Fund: $10k → 10%Oregon State University Foundation: $10k → 18%NCVMF: $10k → 8%Best Friends Animal Society: $24k → 9%Ohio State University: $25k → 15%Critters Inc: $8k → 12%College of Veterninary Medicine Cor: $14k → 16%University of Florida College of Ve: $13k → 19%UW Found Feline Health Fund: $10k → 10%NCVMF: $10k → 8%Ohio State University: $23k → 15%College of Veterninary Medicine Cor: $14k → 16%University of Florida College of Ve: $12k → 19%UW Found Feline Health Fund: $10k → 10%Ohio State University: $23k → 15%College of Veterninary Medicine Cor: $11k → 16%University of Florida College of Ve: $12k → 19%UW Found Feline Health Fund: $10k → 10%Ohio State University: $20k → 15%College of Veterninary Medicine Cor: $11k → 16%University of Florida College of Ve: $10k → 19%Ohio State University: $20k → 15%College of Veterninary Medicine Cor: $11k → 16%University of Florida College of Ve: $10k → 19%Ohio State University: $18k → 15%University of Florida College of Ve: $10k → 19%Ohio State University: $18k → 15%Lion Tigers Bears: $12k → 11%Lion Tigers Bears: $11k → 11%Lion Tigers Bears: $11k → 11%Lion Tigers Bears: $10k → 11%The Little Angels Project: $13k → 14%UC Davis Vet Medical Center: $72k → 11%UC Regents Davis Vet Medical Center: $30k → 11%UC Davis Vet Medical Center: $24k → 11%UC Regents Davis Vet Medical Center: $18k → 11%UC Regents Davis Vet Medical Center: $18k → 11%UC Regents Davis Vet Medical Center: $10k → 11%San Diego Humane Society: $16k → 11%San Diego Humane Society: $15k → 11%San Diego Humane Society: $13k → 11%San Diego Humane Society: $11k → 11%San Diego Humane Society: $10k → 11%Friends of Cats: $15k → 11%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

WA
ID
WI
NY
OR
WY
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
HI
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.
$2.1M · 63 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
2

Total granted

$2.1M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+118%

Still filing today

51%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +134%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +31%
  • DR
    DEES RESCUE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AC
    Alley Cat Allies Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +118%
  • PV
    Project VETS
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Kitten Around Cat Rescue
Animals
2
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
3
Feline Urban Rescue and Rehab Inc

To reduce the number of cats taken to shelters by promoting the importance of spaying/neutering and cat adoptions.

Animals
4
For Every Rescue a Life Saved

To manage feral and stray cat populations. The process involves trapping the cats in a humane manner, getting them spayed or neutered, vaccinated against rabies, and then returning them to their original location.

Animals
5
Fur Ever Home Cat Sanctuary

Provide loving care & home for approx 120 Feral Cats that are in danger out in streets/unadoptable. TNR projects for feral cat colonies around Horry County. Provide Vet & medication care for animals in-house.

Animals
6
Purrfect Friends Cat Rescue

Cat Rescue

Animals
7
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
8
Friends of Feral Felines

Friends of Feral Felines provided Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return (TNVR) subsidies for 1,919 unowned community cats

Animals
9
Cocoa Kitties

Animal rescue

Animals
10
PurrHarmony Inc

Rescue and shelter cats

Animals
11
Fluff Buddies

Feline rescue & adoption

Animals
12
Purrs and Whiskers Inc

Purrs and Whiskers primary function is to find forever homes for cats and kittens that are abandoned, stray, owner turn in, injured/sick, and/or born in feral colonies after we have fully vetted them by spaying/neutering, vaccinating,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cat House On the Kings Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 67 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
30/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC Davis School Vet Med Office Dean: $415,760 · OtherUC Davis School Vet Med Office DeanOhio State University: $145,960 · OtherOhio State UniversityColorado State Vet Med: $122,500 · OtherColorado State Vet MedUC Davis Vet Medical Center: $96,000 · OtherUC Davis Vet Medical CenterUniversity of Florida College of Ve: $81,500 · OtherUniversity of Florida College of VeUC Regents Davis Vet Medical Center: $76,000 · OtherCollege of Veterninary Medicine Cor: $75,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $62,000 · OtherUW Found Feline Health Fund: $57,600 · OtherNCVMF: $49,000 · Other+23 more: $269,480 · Other+23 moreSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $82,540 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCABEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $58,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYDEES RESCUE INC: $51,000 · AnimalsDEES RESCUE INCABANDONED PET RESCUE INC: $50,260 · AnimalsABANDONED PET RESCUE INCFRIENDS OF CATS INC: $49,440 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF CATS INCFixNation Inc: $31,800 · AnimalsNORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS: $27,500 · AnimalsLANAI CAT SANCTUARY: $23,900 · Animals+24 more: $282,760 · Animals+24 moreOregon State University Foundation: $26,000 · EducationLOVING ALL ANIMALS INC: $18,140 · Philanthropy
Other$1,451,400Animals$657,200Education$26,000Philanthropy$18,140

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 budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $82,540 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $58,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDEES RESCUE INC: $51,000 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetABANDONED PET RESCUE INC: $50,260 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF CATS INC: $49,440 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFixNation Inc: $31,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS: $27,500 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING FREE NON-PROFIT ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $24,400 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLANAI CAT SANCTUARY: $23,900 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LITTLE ANGELS PROJECT: $23,460 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHAWAII CAT FOUNDATION: $21,200 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetAnimal Samaritans: $20,440 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLOVING ALL ANIMALS INC: $18,140 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CAT HOUSE ON THE KINGS INC: $17,960 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTIGER HAVEN INC: $17,960 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEAST COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE: $17,800 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetFRONT RANGE FREEDOM RESCUE INC: $17,460 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetFERAL CAT COALITION: $16,440 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetLOVE YOUR FERAL FELINES: $15,700 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetABANDONED AND FERAL CAT FRIENDS: $13,900 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetSPOT: $13,200 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetROAR FOUNDATION: $13,040 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFeral Cat Foundation: $12,460 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSAINT MARTINS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $12,140 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetFriends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance: $11,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSPAY-NEUTER ACTION PROJECT: $11,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDAS FORGOTTEN FELINES INC: $10,860 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetHeaven on Earth Society for Animals Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGLOUCESTER-MATHEWS HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $5,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATS AT THE STUDIOS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.8% 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 SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DEES RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ABANDONED PET RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CATS INC ↗
  • Who funds FixNation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS ↗
  • Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LIVING FREE NON-PROFIT ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds LANAI CAT SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds THE LITTLE ANGELS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII CAT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Animal Samaritans ↗
  • Who funds LOVING ALL ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CAT HOUSE ON THE KINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds TIGER HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds FRONT RANGE FREEDOM RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds FERAL CAT COALITION ↗
  • Who funds LOVE YOUR FERAL FELINES ↗
  • Who funds ABANDONED AND FERAL CAT FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds SPOT ↗
  • Who funds ROAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Feral Cat Foundation ↗

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.

Thornton S Jr and Kat…Petsmart Charities IncSempra FoundationPetco LoveGreater Good CharitiesThe Michelson Found A…BISSELL Pet FoundationLeslie L Alexander Fo…The Diane Warren Foun…The JEM ProjectThe McGrath Family Fo…Mary Jo and Hank Gree…
Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide FoundationCA27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Sempra Foundation · Petco Love · Greater Good Charities · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Diane Warren Foundation · The JEM Project · The McGrath Family Foundation · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation

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 Paul and Lea Levine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul and Lea Levine Foundation. 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 →median 0%
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Paul and Lea Levine Foundation 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 67 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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