How much does The Bar-Levav Family Foundation give?

The Bar-Levav Family Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $394,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Bar-Levav Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Philanthropy (23%), Education (12%).

Who are The Bar-Levav Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kol Shalom ($203k), Anti-Defamation League ($86k), American Jewish Committee ($85k).

Does The Bar-Levav Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bar-Levav Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bar-Levav Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include William Davidson Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc.

Where is The Bar-Levav Family Foundation based?

The Bar-Levav Family Foundation is based in MI.

The Bar-Levav Family Foundation

The Bar-Levav Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$394k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$64k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$622kPhilanthropy$590kEducation$314kCivil Rights$235kInternational$173kHealth$138kMembership Benefit$75kPublic Benefit$58kOther$0

02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k37 grants · $80k
$10k–50k11 grants · $251k
$50k–250k1 grant · $64k

$2,200

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE	$25,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE	$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
THE DEN COLLECTIVE	$6,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of The Bar-Levav Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Bar-Levav Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 8.0% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.2M · 55 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+30%

Still filing today

51%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationReligionHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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

AL
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
5× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +34%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
4× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +86%
CA
CHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC
9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +99%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $14k
CA
CANTOR'S ASSEMBLY
one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +6%
JM
JEWISH MUSIC HERITAGE PROJECT
one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education

Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education

University of Judaism Foundation

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Hillel At the George Washington University Inc

The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Sherit Isroel

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Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

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Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; 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.

05the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 105 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/57

Grantees still filing

43/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,723,765Civil Rights$216,700Philanthropy$166,940International$150,500Religion$141,690Education$110,110Public Benefit$57,600

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

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.

William Davidson FoundationMI22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Bar-Levav Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bar-Levav Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get 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.

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