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The Betty & Norman F Levy Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Betty & Norman F Levy 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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$260kEducation$135kInternational$63kEnvironment$60kHealth$53kArts & Culture$28kCrime & Legal$5kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$64k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME$10,000
PECONIC LAND TRUST$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%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.
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$353k · 4 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$353k
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
0%

Still filing today

50%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 & CultureInternationalEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BS
    BROTHERHOOD SYNAGOGUE
    4× · 2017–2023 · $260k
  • PL
    PECONIC LAND TRUST INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +49%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
    5× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • MM
    MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue -8%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FAO HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • FF
    FILM FORUM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -20%
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
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
5
The National Museum of Women in the Arts

The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…

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6
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
7
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
8
Foundation for Research of the New York Academy of Osteopathy Inc
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9
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
10
The Mayer - Rothschild Foundation
Health
11
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
12
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Academy in Rome; the most unlike its peers is Scs Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROTHERHOOD SYNAGOGUE: $260,000 · OtherBROTHERHOOD SYNAGOGUENATIONAL ASSOCIATION FAO HEALTH: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FAO HEALTH+3 more: $30,000 · Other+3 moreMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $125,000 · EducationMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN CO…AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $37,500 · InternationalAMERICAN AC…International Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 · InternationalInternation…PECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentPECONIC L…NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $5,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL …FILM FORUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSCS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$340,000Education$125,000International$62,500Environment$50,000Arts & Culture$32,500Philanthropy$2,500Recreation & Sports$2,500Human Services$2,500

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 budgetMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Betty & Norman F Levy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Betty & Norman F Levy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Betty & Norman F Levy Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Betty & Norman F Levy 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.

    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 16 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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