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The John Levy and Gail Rothenberg Family Foundation at a glance

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The John Levy and Gail Rothenberg Family 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.

$445k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$732kArts & Culture$328kEducation$309kHealth$265kPhilanthropy$248kPublic Benefit$187kCivil Rights$85kScience & Tech$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $301k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER$99,797
MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA$99,797
THE GOODNATION FOUNDATION$50,913
FRIENDSHIP WORKS$50,000
OSET INSTITUTE$30,000
FOUNDERS FUND$27,850
NAPLES NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC$20,000
FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES$10,000
BAKER SENIOR CENTER$10,000
ARTIS - NAPLES$10,000
NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$5,015
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW AND CENTRAL FLORIDA$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–23, $576k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER: $505k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER: $5k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER: $3k → 10%JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN CTR: $50k → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN CTR: $8k → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN CTR: $5k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $500 → 16%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

ME
NY
MA
OR
OH
CT
CA
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 31 repeat orgs$792k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
25

Total granted

$1.4M
$611k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+38%

Still filing today

61%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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
    MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $242k · revenue +16%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $227k · revenue ×12
  • FI
    FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • BS
    BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $505k · revenue +22%
  • HF
    HOPEWELL FUND DEMOCRACY RESEARCH
    one grant, 2022 · $33k
  • VL
    VOTO LATINO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +208%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
6
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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8
The Institute for Law and Strategy

This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…

Civil Rights
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
10
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc; the most unlike its peers is Autism Unity Inc. 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

39 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. 39 of the 63 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $226,525 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATIONJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES SWFL: $60,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES SWFLANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $60,000 · OtherANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUENAPLES NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC: $60,000 · OtherNAPLES NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINICBAKER SENIOR CENTER: $45,000 · OtherNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherFOUNDERS FUND: $35,850 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $35,500 · OtherHOPEWELL FUND DEMOCRACY RESEARCH: $32,500 · OtherTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $99,797 · OtherTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER+27 more: $214,000 · Other+27 moreBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC: $505,255 · Human ServicesBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES IN…JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $62,500 · Human ServicesJUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER+2 more: $8,500 · Human ServicesMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $241,542 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FO…OSET Institute: $30,000 · EducationOSET InstituteWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $25,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNA…+7 more: $22,400 · Education+7 moreFRIENDSHIPWORKS INC: $120,000 · ReligionPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $65,000 · HealthCENTER FOR NEW DATA: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthGoodnation Foundation Inc: $50,913 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $49,515 · PhilanthropyFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INC: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $4,800 · Arts & Culture
Other$909,172Human Services$576,255Education$318,942Religion$120,000Health$115,250Philanthropy$100,428Arts & Culture$99,800

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 budgetBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC: $505,255 over 1y, 12% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $241,542 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $226,525 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIPWORKS INC: $120,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $99,797 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $62,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $50,913 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR NEW DATA: $50,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $49,515 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $35,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOSET Institute: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetVOTO LATINO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELMONT GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWellesley College: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND PIANO SERIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOATHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Unity Inc: $250 over 1y, 1.7% 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 BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
  • Who funds Goodnation Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR NEW DATA ↗
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds OSET Institute ↗
  • Who funds VOTO LATINO INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC ↗
  • Who funds LET'S GET READY INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Justin & Genevieve Wy…William and Cynthia M…The Hamilton Company …Collier Community Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…
Boston Foundation IncMA17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · William and Cynthia Marcus Family Charitable Trust · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 John Levy and Gail Rothenberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John Levy and Gail Rothenberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Judge Baker Children's Center: 29% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Needham Community Council Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Grand Piano Series Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 63 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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