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Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$354k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$51,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCivil RightsEducationRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$337k76%
FY20238$451k38%
FY20226$547k50%
FY20219$78k67%
FY20209$86k89%
FY20192$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$813kCivil Rights$207kReligion$191kHousing & Shelter$155kArts & Culture$110kEducation$106kEnvironment$42kPhilanthropy$38kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($559k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $465,736 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $205,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetProject Worthmore: $56,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse Writers Workshop Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSpelman College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteers for Outdoor Colorado: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMusic Therapy of the Rockies: $16,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetWomen's Bean Project: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Health and Hope: $11,280 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHigh Line Canal Conservancy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Chance Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMile High United Way Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Denver Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHunger Free Colorado: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNative American Rights Fund Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

The Denver FoundationCO22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Western Union 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.

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How do I get to Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Raphael Levy Memorial 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.

About Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation

How much does Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation give?
Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $353,907 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Civil Rights (12%), Religion (11%).
Who are Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc ($466k), Anti-Defamation League ($205k), Project Worthmore ($57k).
Does Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
Where is Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation based?
Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation is based in CO.

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 41 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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