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The Derse Levin Foundation

To promote dental care.

$115k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Philanthropy$96kHealth$68kYouth Development$32kAnimals$30kFood & Nutrition$9kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $71,617 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $114,926 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,309 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$5,916
Median grant
4
States reached
$359k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMILES FOR LIFE$40,000
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION$10,399
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC$5,916
EVERY CHILD PEDIATRICS$5,164
NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION AND LOW INCOME HOUSING$5,128
THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC$5,010
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADOPT-A-FAMILY: $9k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
3
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
4
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
5
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
6
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
7
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
8
Lucky Dog Animal Rescue

Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…

Animals
9
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
10
Animal Protection New Mexico

To protect animals by creating systemic change resulting in the humane treatment of all animals. we create policies, infrastructure, and services that protect animals and strengthen our communities, and we design and implement humane and…

Animals
11
CJ3 Foundation

Cj3 foundation provides services, support, and advocacy to united states military service members, veterans/disabled veterans, law enforcement, and emergency responders who need/require assistance, and then connecting them with resources…

Human Services
12
Good Dog Rescue

To save dogs from high kill shelters and place them into loving foster homes. Prior to adoption our dogs will be vetted, spayed or neutered and nurtured to join a supportive and loving home environment.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adopt a Family. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SMILES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION — $120,000 · PhilanthropySMILES FOR LIFE FOUNDATIONCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $10,399 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATIONMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $5,916 · PhilanthropyJUSTIN SIMMONS FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUSTIN SIMMONS …GIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER — $5,129 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORA…MOVEMBER FOUNDATION — $12,000 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUN…VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS — $10,500 · HealthVETSVETERANS …Rocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing — $5,164 · HealthRocky Mountai…FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SER…Adopt A Family — $9,232 · Human ServicesAdopt A Fam…Humane World for Animals Inc — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $5,010 · AnimalsNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION — $5,128 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$136,315Youth Development$32,129Health$27,664Human Services$24,232Animals$15,010Housing & Shelter$5,128

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSMILES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 3y, 76% of budgetJUSTIN SIMMONS FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS — $10,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $10,399 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt A Family — $9,232 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $5,916 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing — $5,164 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER — $5,129 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION — $5,128 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $5,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Derse Levin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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