How much does The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation give?

The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $3,885,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (59%), Religion (16%), Public Benefit (8%).

Who are The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Israel Emergency Alliance ($6.5M), American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($5.6M), Prager University Foundation ($1.6M).

Does The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Jewish Communal Fund, The Milstein Family Foundation.

Where is The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation based?

The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation is based in CA.

The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation

The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Kenneth Leventhal 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.

$3.9M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.1M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$16MReligion$4.3MPublic Benefit$2.1MEducation$1.7MCivil Rights$1.5MArts & Culture$785kHealth$565kPhilanthropy$75kOther$0

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k7 grants · $160k
$50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
$250k+3 grants · $2.5M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$31M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
STAND WITH US	$1,100,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$1,000,000
PRAGERU	$400,000
LETTER OF THE LAW INC	$200,000
MIDDLE EAST FORUM	$200,000
JINSA	$200,000
HONESTREPORTING	$150,000
AMCHA	$100,000
ISRAEL CHRISTIAN NEXUS	$100,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES	$100,000
BUILDERS OF JEWISH EDUCATION	$65,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM	$60,000
SINAI TEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER	$50,000
EMEK HEBREW ACADEMY	$25,000
YULA HIGH SCHOOL	$25,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

$26M · 33 repeat orgs$445k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$26M

$445k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+206%

Still filing today

70%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalArts & CultureEducationReligionCivil RightsOther

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

IE
ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
7× · 2018–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +91%
PU
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +312%
LO
LETTER OF THE LAW INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +92%

Funded once

OJ
ORTHODOX--UNION JEWISH STUDENT UNION
one grant, 2018 · $330k
TD
THE DEBORAH PROJECT INC
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -13%
CF
CITIZENS FOR NATIOAL SECURITY
one grant, 2018 · $25k

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.

Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International

Sherit Isroel

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation

Philanthropy

Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida

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University of Judaism Foundation

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The Jerusalem Connection

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Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel On Campus Coalition Inc; the most unlike its peers is Yula High School. 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

29 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. 29 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/29

Grantees still filing

21/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$15,825,000Other$6,165,000Education$1,820,000Civil Rights$1,350,000Religion$1,065,000Arts & Culture$665,000

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

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · The Milstein Family Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Hochberg Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Kenneth Leventhal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kenneth Leventhal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get 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 · 0–5%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home