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Robert M Levy and Diane Vs Levy Family Foundation C/O Robert Levy at a glance

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Robert M Levy and Diane Vs Levy Family Foundation C/O Robert Levy

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.

$847k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.2MArts & Culture$1.8MHealth$890kEnvironment$675kYouth Development$565kAnimals$225kPhilanthropy$60kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$225,000
NANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS$125,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$100,000
NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$50,000
SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL$25,000
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
NANTUCKET GULF CLUB FOUNDATION$10,000
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC$2,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SGA YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%SELF HELP HOME: $3k → 14%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 16 repeat orgs$670k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$5.4M
$368k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+28%

Still filing today

81%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +64%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +45%
  • FM
    FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $775k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SA
    SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +111%
  • LF
    LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +63%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sga Youth & Family Services Nfp; the most unlike its peers is Lupus Foundation of America Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 33 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,200,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,050,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGOTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $425,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAVanderbilt University: $225,000 · EducationVanderbilt University+2 more: $60,000 · EducationLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $675,000 · OtherLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITA…NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $265,000 · OtherNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS…NANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS: $150,000 · OtherNANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HA…NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $115,000 · OtherNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPIT…ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT: $50,000 · OtherLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 · Other+8 more: $112,500 · Other+8 moreFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $775,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF …SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH MUSIC F…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITE…+3 more: $37,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $600,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HOR…'SCONSET TRUST INC: $40,000 · Environment'SCONSET TR…NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $60,000 · PhilanthropySHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $75,000 · Animals
Education$2,960,000Other$1,417,500Arts & Culture$937,000Environment$675,000Youth Development$300,000Philanthropy$120,000Animals$75,000

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 budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,050,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $775,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $600,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $425,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $265,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetVanderbilt University: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAY YES TO EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SELFHELP HOME INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $2,000 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.

National Philanthropi…Publix Super Markets …American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
National Philanthropic TrustPA13.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Robert M Levy and Diane Vs Levy Family Foundation C/O Robert Levy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert M Levy and Diane Vs Levy Family Foundation C/O Robert Levy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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