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The Jess & Rose Kortz & Pearle Rae Levey Foundation at a glance

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The Jess & Rose Kortz & Pearle Rae Levey Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$260k
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$316kArts & Culture$306kCommunity Improvement$280kPhilanthropy$235kHuman Services$151kYouth Development$135kEmployment$76kReligion$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$1,632
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CEDAR SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$72,350
OPERA COLORADO$27,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA$25,000
DENVER YOUTH PROGRAM$15,000
MC CALLUM THEATER$10,620
JVS OF SO CAL$10,153
CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION$10,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL OF BEVERLY HILLS$7,990
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF THE DESER$5,250
CITY OF HOPE$5,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$5,000
SHALOM PARK$5,000
L A R C$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES LA$5,000
BARBARA SINATRA CHILDRENS CENTER$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SHALOM PARK: $11k → 8%SHALOM PARK: $5k → 8%SHALOM PARK: $5k → 8%SHALOM PARK: $5k → 8%SHALOM PARK: $5k → 8%SHALOM CARES: $5k → 8%SHALOM PARK: $50 → 8%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $600 → 14%LOS ANGELES MEDICAL MISSION TEAM: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $300 → 14%LOS ANGELES MEDICAL MISSION TEAM: $5k → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $300 → 14%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 12%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $300 → 14%LOS ANGELES MEDICAL MISSION TEAM: $5k → 14%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 12%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $300 → 14%LOS ANGELES MEDICAL MISSION TEAM: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO: $2k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO: $2k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO: $2k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO: $2k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
KS
DC
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 75 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
27

Total granted

$1.5M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+1%

Still filing today

43%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OC
    OPERA COLORADO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $152k · revenue +30%
  • DY
    DENVER YOUTH PROGRAM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +236%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $105k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERAL OF LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH FUND - 2015 WOMENS CA
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

1
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
2
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
3
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
6
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
7
The Colorado Prevention Center

Improving health through innovative science and community engagement.

Health
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
11
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
12
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Menagerie Animal Rescue and Sanctuary. 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

47 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. 47 of the 108 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
38/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF HOPE: $280,050 · OtherCITY OF HOPEIndividual grant recipient: $75,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMC CULLUM THEATER: $55,130 · OtherMC CULLUM THEATERMC CALLUM THEATER: $40,720 · OtherCEDAR SINAI MEDICAL CNTR - BOG: $38,550 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF THE DESER: $37,300 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES - LA: $35,200 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUEL OF BEVERLY HILLS: $33,850 · Other+73 more: $354,572 · Other+73 moreCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $105,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI…Eisenhower Medical Center: $45,200 · HealthEisenhower M…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · HealthCROHN'S & CO…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBRO…+4 more: $12,600 · Health+4 moreJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $128,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDE…Rose Community Foundation: $35,300 · PhilanthropyRose Commun…CONCERN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCONCERN FOU…+3 more: $1,700 · PhilanthropyOPERA COLORADO: $151,750 · Arts & CultureOPERA COLO…SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $10,500 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL C…+2 more: $2,300 · Arts & CultureDENVER YOUTH PROGRAM: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentJVS SOCAL: $76,431 · EmploymentSHALOM PARK: $36,568 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES MEDICAL MISSION TEAM INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $3,200 · Human Services+3 more: $2,400 · Human Services
Other$950,422Health$204,800Philanthropy$185,000Arts & Culture$164,550Youth Development$135,000Employment$76,431Human Services$70,168

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPERA COLORADO: $151,750 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetDENVER YOUTH PROGRAM: $135,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $128,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJVS SOCAL: $76,431 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $45,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM PARK: $36,568 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $35,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MEDICAL MISSION TEAM INC: $20,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCONCERN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA: $10,950 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $4,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS MEALS ON WHEELS: $4,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $3,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $3,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital: $3,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO JUDICIAL INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSHAREWELL: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $1,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Desert: $1,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTOP CANCER: $1,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget365 HEALTH INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT PAVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO CARING: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMENAGERIE ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY: $600 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $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.

  • Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds DENVER YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM PARK ↗
  • Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MEDICAL MISSION TEAM INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
  • Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado ↗
  • Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗

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 Laff FoundationThe Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…Jewish Community Foun…Mile High United Way …The Colorado Health F…Morgan Stanley Global…California Community …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Laff FoundationCO22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Laff Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · California Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Jess & Rose Kortz & Pearle Rae Levey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jess & Rose Kortz & Pearle Rae Levey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Jess & Rose Kortz & Pearle Rae Levey Foundation 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 108 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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