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The Lefevre Foundation

Supporting organization; furtherance of art, history, technology education, community health, youth programs and community benefiting projects as a supporting organization to and for the community purposes of the licking county foundation

$858k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$120,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$35M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Lefevre Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$858k38%
FY20234$300k50%
FY20224$295k0%
FY20216$604k0%
FY20205$296k20%
FY20197$695k43%
FY20186$574k67%
FY20173$453kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.9MEducation$923kYouth Development$511kPublic Safety & Disaster$300kCommunity Improvement$140kHousing & Shelter$120kFood & Nutrition$45kHealth$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of The Lefevre Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Licking County Foundation$1,065,000554%
Newark Campus Development Fund$900,00056%
The Works - Ohio Center for History Art & Technology$775,80058%
The Rock Foundation$430,500192%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$300,00010%
Newark Development Partners$139,73726%
Newark Midland Theatre Association$100,00052%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc$80,00040%
Habitat for Humanity - Midohio$60,00020%
St Vincent de Paul Housing Facilities Inc$60,00022%
The Food Pantry Network of Licking County$45,00030%
Center for Disability Services$30,00031%
Licking County Department of Job and Family Services$25,0001n/a
The Ohio State University$22,5001n/a
Granville Ohio Historical Society$20,000115%
Licking County Humane Society$20,00021%

Where it is load-bearing

The Lefevre Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLicking County Foundation: $1,065,000 over 5y, 54% of budgetNewark Campus Development Fund: $900,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetThe Works - Ohio Center for History Art & Technology: $775,800 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetThe Rock Foundation: $430,500 over 1y, 92% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewark Development Partners: $139,737 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetNewark Midland Theatre Association: $100,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity - Midohio: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Vincent de Paul Housing Facilities Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Food Pantry Network of Licking County: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Disability Services: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGranville Ohio Historical Society: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetLicking County Humane Society: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 Lindorf Family FoundationOH30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lindorf Family Foundation · Licking Memorial Health Foundation · Licking County Foundation Inc · The Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundation · The John and Mary Alford Foundation · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · Park National Corporation Foundation · The O'Neill Foundation · The Englefield Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Cecil Mauger Charitable Trust · Denison University

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.

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How do I get to The Lefevre Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Lefevre 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.

About The Lefevre Foundation

How much does The Lefevre Foundation give?
The Lefevre Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $857,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Lefevre Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Education (23%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are The Lefevre Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Licking County Foundation ($1.1M), Newark Campus Development Fund ($900k), The Works - Ohio Center for History Art & Technology ($776k).
Does The Lefevre Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lefevre Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lindorf Family Foundation, Licking Memorial Health Foundation, Licking County Foundation Inc.
Where is The Lefevre Foundation based?
The Lefevre Foundation is based in OH.

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 16 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 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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