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The Irene Levoy Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$279k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$279k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$788kArts & Culture$48kHealth$16kInternational$14kReligion$13kScience & Tech$12kHuman Services$6kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$279,214
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONG ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$279,214
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%IAF CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 14%GREAT NECK COMMUNITY FUND: $500 → 6%LONG ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $505k → 7%WEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND: $5k → 14%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%SAINT JUDE HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%OLD WESTBURY GARDENS: $1k → 6%LONG ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $279k → 7%WEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND: $5k → 14%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%SAINT JUDE HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%OLD WESTBURY GARDENS: $1k → 6%GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 7%WEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND: $3k → 14%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 17%NORTH WELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 7%WEST POINT HISTORY DEPT: $3k → 14%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 17%NORTH WELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 7%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION: $400 → 17%NORTH WELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 17%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY: $5k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY FUND: $650 → 6%CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY: $5k → 17%ALERT FIRE COMPANY: $500 → 6%CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY: $5k → 17%ALERT FIRE COMPANY: $500 → 6%THIRTEEN WNET NEW YORK: $3k → 17%ALERT FIRE COMPANY: $500 → 6%SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN: $200 → 17%SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%THIRTEEN WNET NEW YORK: $3k → 17%ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $500 → 6%NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $80 → 6%NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $80 → 6%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$885k · 25 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
11

Total granted

$885k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+79%

Still filing today

56%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +58%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +53%
  • WP
    WEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +450%

Funded once

  • IC
    IAF CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • WP
    WEST POINT HISTORY DEPT
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • WP
    WNET PATRON PROGRAM
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
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
4
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
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
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

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

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Museum; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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

20 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. 20 of the 37 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LONG ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $784,214 · OtherLONG ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+19 more: $42,576 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $14,500 · Arts & CultureWNET: $6,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,750 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,220 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,060 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $13,600 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $3,000 · International+1 more: $100 · InternationalWEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND: $13,050 · ReligionST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $3,000 · HealthNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $8,500 · Education+1 more: $200 · EducationCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,268 · Food & NutritionTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $600 · Animals
Other$826,790Arts & Culture$24,530International$16,700Religion$13,050Health$10,000Education$8,700Food & Nutrition$2,268Animals$600

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $13,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND: $13,050 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,268 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNassau County Museum of Art: $660 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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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 Irene Levoy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irene Levoy 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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, 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 Irene Levoy Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Irene Levoy 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 37 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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