How much does The Lebovitz Fund give?

The Lebovitz Fund reported 8 grants totaling $4,620,911 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Lebovitz Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (78%), Education (9%), Arts & Culture (2%).

Who are The Lebovitz Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated ($160k), Wheaton College ($150k), Loon Echo Land Trust Inc ($108k).

Does The Lebovitz Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Lebovitz Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Lebovitz Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hobbs Family Charitable Trust, Corbet Family Foundation, Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation.

Where is The Lebovitz Fund based?

The Lebovitz Fund is based in NH.

The Lebovitz Fund

The Lebovitz Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lebovitz Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.6M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2.1M

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$5.3MEducation$620kArts & Culture$148kEnvironment$147kCivil Rights$113kHealth$98kInternational$83kAnimals$75kOther$0

02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$50k–250k1 grant · $108k
$250k+3 grants · $4.5M

$107,976

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BETH ANN SEGAL'S SCHWAB	$2,103,978
JAMES AND MARGOT LEBOVITZ FAMILY FUND	$1,184,479
LEBOVITZ FUND FOR PHILANTHROPY	$1,184,478
LOON ECHO LAND TRUST	$107,976
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH	$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM	$10,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS	$10,000
LONE SOLDIER FOUNDATION	$10,000

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.3M · 48 repeat orgs$382k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.3M

$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+34%

Still filing today

44%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

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

CR
CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
4× · 2017–2021 · $160k · revenue +3%
WHEATON COLLEGE
5× · 2017–2021 · $150k · revenue +46%
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc
3× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +337%

Funded once

FD
FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND
one grant, 2019 · $206k
CW
CLOWNS WITHOUT BORDERS INC
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -35%
PR
PEMBROKE REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

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

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

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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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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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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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

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Waveny Lifecare Network 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

56 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. 56 of the 103 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)

56/56

Grantees still filing

39/56

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,898,161Education$468,312Arts & Culture$118,100Environment$108,776Philanthropy$81,000Crime & Legal$60,000International$41,750

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.

Hobbs Family Charitable TrustCT17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Corbet Family Foundation · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · MLE Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · The Debard Johnson Foundation Inc · The Morris Family Foundation

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 Lebovitz Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lebovitz Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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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.

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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