· Private foundation
The Bar-Levav Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $251k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $63,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $48,800 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT | $47,000 |
| KOL SHALOM | $30,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $25,000 |
| MASORTI FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATION | $13,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND MICHIGAN | $12,000 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $11,800 |
| ADAMA FOUNDATION | $10,250 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHEI AVOT | $9,000 |
| WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS | $7,200 |
| COMPASSION & CHOICES | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The Bar-Levav Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE5× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +34%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE4× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +86%- CACHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $14k
- CACANTOR'S ASSEMBLYone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +6%
- JMJEWISH MUSIC HERITAGE PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Adama Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds CHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHEI AVOT ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds The Den Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds HAZON INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ADAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL ↗
- Who funds Pitchon Lev Inc ↗
- Who funds CANTOR'S ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Free Loan Association of DC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: William Davidson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation · Hermelin Family Support Foundation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · Jonathan and Beth Lowe Family Foundation · Schostak Family Support Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Bar-Levav Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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