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The Joseph R Levis 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.

$134k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
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 FY20172025.

Education$752kReligion$276kHealth$67kHousing & Shelter$47kPublic Safety & Disaster$42kHuman Services$34kCommunity Improvement$16kYouth Development$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL$50,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
PREGNANCY CARE CENTER$10,000
Notre Dame Cristo Rey$10,000
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$10,000
LAZARUS HOUSE$5,000
A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE$2,500
LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL$2,500
LAWRENCE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$2,500
XAVERIAN BROTHERS$2,000
FRANCIS QUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$2,000
SAINT BENEDICT ABBEY$2,000
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 (FY18–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAITH TAHT DOES JUSTICE: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FL: $2k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE: $3k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%STONE FAMILY ADOPTION ASSISTANCE FUND: $350 → 8%A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE: $3k → 16%A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE: $2k → 16%A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE: $2k → 16%A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE: $2k → 16%A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of The Joseph R Levis Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Joseph R Levis Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 40 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
24

Total granted

$1.2M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+21%

Still filing today

43%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +44%
  • LAZARUS HOUSE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +14%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • HI
    HURRICANE IDALIA VICTIM'S RELIEF
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • HC
    HOLY CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Mount Auburn Hospital

The mission of new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is the operation and maintenance of an acute care, orthopedic specialty hospital and provision of all services related thereto for the benefit of patients. nebh strives to…

Health
5
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health
6
Loyola University Medical Center

We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…

Health
7
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
8
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
9
The Mercy Hospital Inc

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the mercy hospital is a member of trinity health of new england…

Health
10
Loyola University Health System

We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.loyola university health system is a member of trinity health.

Health
11
Lahey Clinic Inc

Lahey clinic (lc) provides the highest quality interdisciplinary and coordinated patient care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and educating tomorrow's health care…

Health
12
Boston Architectural College

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Ann's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ukraine Freedom Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersYouth Development CentersVeteran Support ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsHomeless Services & ShelterJewish Community FederationsYmca Community CentersCancer Support OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and AdoptionSubstance Abuse TreatmentFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%7%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr14%3%35–55yr14%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%4%20–35yr14%0%35–55yr14%92%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,325

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JOHNS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $523,000 · OtherST JOHNS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCIndividual grant recipient — $77,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · Other+44 more — $207,750 · Other+44 moreTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $180,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE C…THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $11,500 · EducationTHE FRANCIS OUIME…+3 more — $8,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 · Human ServicesA FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE — $21,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $1,850 · Human ServicesLAZARUS HOUSE INC — $46,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $500 · Housing & ShelterLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLawrence General Hospital — $12,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $7,000 · HealthNew York Cancer Foundation — $1,000 · HealthALS ONE INC — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthGAVIN FOUNDATION INC — $10,102 · Philanthropy
Other$903,250Education$199,500Human Services$63,350Housing & Shelter$46,500Youth Development$22,000Health$21,500Philanthropy$10,102

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $180,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC — $46,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE — $21,500 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetLawrence General Hospital — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGAVIN FOUNDATION INC — $10,102 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST ANN'S HOME INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA SPRING OF HOPE INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Cancer Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS ONE INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUKRAINE FREEDOM FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDOVER COMMUNITY TRUST — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE STONE FAMILY ADOPTION ASSISTANCE FUND INC — $350 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
  • Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE
  • Who funds Lawrence General Hospital
  • Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
  • Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
  • Who funds GAVIN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds ST ANN'S HOME INC
  • Who funds A SPRING OF HOPE INC
  • Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rogers Family Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Artemas W Stearns Trust · Josephine G Russell Trust · Aaf Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc

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 Joseph R Levis Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • St Ann's Home Inc51% of income from government
  • Lawrence General Hospital41% of income from government
  • Gavin Foundation Inc12% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc6% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida6% of income from government
  • Als One Inc1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 68 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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