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Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Fdn

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$11MHealth$2.3MPhilanthropy$2.0MScience & Tech$1.7MArts & Culture$839kReligion$533kRecreation & Sports$498kCommunity Improvement$310kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$68k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FUND FOR PARKS AND RECREATION$5,000
HAWKEN SCHOOL$1,000
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 (FY17–21, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPE HOSPICE: $500 → 10%EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $250 → 16%OPPORTUNITIES FOR INCLUSION: $250 → 8%EXCEPTIONAL LIVES INC: $25k → 7%YWCA BOSTON: $100k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $8k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $5k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $5k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $3k → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 16%YAD CHAIM INC: $10k → 16%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

NH
IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Fdn’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 70%.

Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Fdnlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 63 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 62 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
81

Total granted

$12M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+26%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2.2M · revenue +45%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +72%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $801k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • MI
    MA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M
  • NB
    NORMAN B LEVENTHAL MAP CENTER AT BPL
    one grant, 2018 · $220k
  • 2N
    2018 NOLA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -100%
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
Boston Architectural College

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

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2
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.

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3
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
4
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
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
7
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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8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
10
Northeastern University
Education
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

99 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. 99 of the 151 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/99
Grantees still filing
71/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2,238,703 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1,526,500 · OtherMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYBOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1,000,000 · OtherBOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINETEMPLE BETH ELOHIM: $523,836 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELOHIMMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $400,000 · Other+86 more: $2,728,597 · Other+86 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $4,276,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,446,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATI…BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC: $450,000 · EducationBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INCThe Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc: $344,850 · Education+15 more: $631,300 · Education+15 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $1,053,000 · PhilanthropyCombined J…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $420,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $175,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way…THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $157,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATE…+6 more: $128,500 · Philanthropy+6 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $800,500 · HealthDana-Farbe…CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $751,726 · HealthCANCER RES…BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $80,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $61,000 · Health+6 more: $111,000 · Health+6 moreCULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD: $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: $57,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & CultureUSS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society: $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $26,500 · Arts & CultureINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $260,000 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $126,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $111,250 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $52,500 · Animals
Other$8,417,636Education$7,148,150Philanthropy$1,934,000Health$1,804,226Arts & Culture$317,000Community Improvement$310,000Animals$289,750

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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $4,276,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2,238,703 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,446,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $1,053,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $800,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $751,726 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC: $450,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $420,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetThe Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc: $344,850 over 2y, 11% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE: $275,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $260,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $175,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC: $175,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $157,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budget2018 NOLA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $126,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPINE MANOR COLLEGE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $111,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD: $105,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $62,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $61,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $61,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: $57,500 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $52,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNorthwestern University: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $40,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUSS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC: $26,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL LIVES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Cummings Foundation G…Highland Street Conne…Liberty Mutual Founda…Alchemy FoundationRockland Trust - Blue…Baptist Community Min…Barr FoundationThe Werner Family Fou…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA41.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Alchemy Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Barr Foundation · The Werner Family Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family 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 Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Opportunities for Inclusion Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Friends of Bass River Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Judge Baker Children's Center: 29% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Uss Constitution Museum Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Bais Yaakov of Boston Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Rogerson Communities Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Day School Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Fdn 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 151 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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