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The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc

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.

$165k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
26%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 22
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$3.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$165k24%
FY202419$141k26%
FY202321$136k29%
FY202222$145k36%
FY202117$99k24%
FY202016$72kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$317kEducation$133kCivil Rights$122kArts & Culture$74kHuman Services$46kReligion$36kHousing & Shelter$5kRecreation & Sports$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
PA
NJ
MD
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Anti-Defamation League$122,00060%
The Clay Studio$73,95051%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$60,00040%
National Breast Cancer Coalition$57,50064%
Kevin Supka Foundation Inc$32,5004n/a
Lifepath Inc$30,00060%
Gift of Life Inc$22,50060%
Living Beyond Breast Cancer$20,0001n/a
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$12,25060%
Michaels Mission Inc$10,0001n/a
Show all 21 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($297k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnti-Defamation League: $122,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Clay Studio: $73,950 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Breast Cancer Coalition: $57,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetLifepath Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGift of Life Inc: $22,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $12,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Kidney Fund Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJudith Creed Horizons for Achieving Independence: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCradle of Hope Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Amyloidosis Foundation: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLackawanna Pro Bono Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirard College Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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 Pfizer Foundation IncNY8.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc 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.

About The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc

How much does The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc give?
The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $165,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Education (18%), Civil Rights (16%).
Who are The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Anti-Defamation League ($122k), The Clay Studio ($74k), Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($60k).
Does The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc 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 Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Network for Good, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc based?
The Barbara Silver Levin Foundation Inc is based in PA.

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 45 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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