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Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$354k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $202k
$6,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT WORTHMORE$51,500
LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP$50,000
REDLINE CONTEMPORTY ART CENTER$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$50,000
JDL$40,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,307
WOMENS' BEAN PROJECT$15,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$10,000
DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE$10,000
HIGHLINE CANAL CONSERVANCY$10,000
CENTER FOR HEALTH & HOPE$6,500
MERCY SHIPS$3,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS' RESEARCH HOSPITAL$3,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$2,100
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $553k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MUSIC THERAPY OF THE ROCKIES: $10k → 6%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $52k → 8%SECOND CHANCE CENTER INC: $10k → 10%MUSIC THERAPY OF THE ROCKIES: $5k → 6%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $5k → 8%MUSIC THERAPY OF THE ROCKIES: $1k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $372k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $33k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $28k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $19k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER: $5k → 12%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

NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
DC
GA
TX
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$994k · 6 repeat orgs$535k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$994k
$270k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
-11%

Still filing today

83%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k 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
Human ServicesEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $466k · revenue +88%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $205k · revenue +34%
  • PW
    PROJECT WORTHMORE
    2× · 2021–2024 · $57k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • SC
    Spelman College
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -11%
  • VF
    VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -20%
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
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
3
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
4
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
5
Colo Foundation for Water Education

Water education colorado ensures coloradans are informed on water issues and equipped to make decisions that guide our state to a sustainable water future.

Environment
6
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
9
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
10
Colorado Nature League

To protect, conserve, and restore colorado's native wildlife and habitats. we champion science-based, innovative, collaborative solutions for managing colorado's iconic wildlife and biodiversity, protecting them from threats like habitat…

Environment
11
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights
12
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Health and Hope. 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

23 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. 23 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE EMANUEL: $239,600 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $150,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYREDLINE CONTEMPORTY ART CENTER: $50,000 · OtherREDLINE CONTEMPORTY ART CENTERJDL: $40,000 · OtherJDLIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Other+20 more: $86,755 · Other+20 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $465,736 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO IN…PROJECT WORTHMORE: $56,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT WORTHMORE+3 more: $31,000 · Human Services+3 moreJEWISHColorado: $175,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColorad…Rose Community Foundation: $28,148 · PhilanthropyRose Communit…MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $205,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATI…+2 more: $7,000 · Civil RightsUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $50,000 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC: $50,000 · EducationSpelman College: $25,000 · EducationVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $15,000 · Employment
Other$591,355Human Services$553,236Philanthropy$213,148Civil Rights$212,000Education$125,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Employment$15,000

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

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 budgetJEWISHColorado: $175,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 budgetRose Community Foundation: $28,148 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Anschutz Family Found…Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Janus Henderson F…Mile High United Way …Schlessman Foundation…Boettcher FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…The Colorado TrustWestern Union Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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