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The Lefkowitz Family Foundation at a glance

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The Lefkowitz Family Foundation

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.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$160kReligion$118kHousing & Shelter$86kArts & Culture$75kHuman Services$64kAnimals$26kEducation$14kFood & Nutrition$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$895k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FULCRUM ARTS$7,000
SHALOM AUSTIN$2,000
HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO$1,800
INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION$1,500
NCPTF$1,500
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSN$1,000
ST JUDE HOSPITAL$500
PUPPY FOOD BANK$500
PAWS ON DEATH ROW$500
NO KID HUNGRY$500
HUMANE SOCIAITY OF AUSTIN TRAVIS CT$500
COMMUNITY FOUN OF THE TEXAS HILL CO$500
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$250
AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $7k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $6k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $6k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $6k → 14%PATH: $5k → 14%PATH: $5k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $5k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $5k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $4k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $4k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $4k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTH CARE LA: $8k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SVCS: $4k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SVCS: $4k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SVCS: $4k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SVCS: $4k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SVCS: $4k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SVCS: $4k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SVCS: $3k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTHCARE LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTHCARE LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTHCARE LOS ANGELES: $3k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTHCARE LOS ANGELES: $1k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTHCARE LOS ANGELES: $6k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTHCARE LOS ANGELES: $6k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTHCARE LOS ANGELES: $6k → 14%THE SIDEWALK PROJECT: $1k → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$531k · 40 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
40

Total granted

$531k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+60%

Still filing today

70%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • MC
    MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $64k · revenue +154%
  • FA
    FULCRUM ARTS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +74%
  • AF
    ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $52k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AB
    AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +26%
  • The Houston Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +107%
  • VB
    VALLEY BETH SHALOM DAY SCH
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
2
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
3
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
6
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
7
The Heart Foundation

The heart foundation (thf) was created to save lives from heart disease by increasing awareness, educating the public, and supporting innovative research at smidt heart institute at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california.…

Philanthropy
8
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
9
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
10
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Family Housing Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation. 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

57 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. 57 of the 87 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
44/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $64,250 · OtherMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLFULCRUM ARTS: $59,300 · OtherFULCRUM ARTSPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $29,700 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODWEINGART CENTER: $21,500 · OtherWEINGART CENTERVALLEY BETH SHALOM SYNAGOGUETEMPLE: $16,500 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RELATED DISORDE: $16,500 · OtherHEATHER HEYER FOUNDATION: $14,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION: $11,250 · OtherSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $12,000 · Other+45 more: $84,412 · Other+45 moreHomeless Health Care Los Angeles: $40,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Health Care Lo…DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $38,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTERUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $27,000 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS …PATH: $18,000 · Human ServicesPATH+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $52,200 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUN…AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN BRAIN F…American Diabetes Association: $6,500 · HealthAmerican Diabete…+5 more: $7,500 · Health+5 moreLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,250 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $3,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER: $2,500 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $2,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,000 · Animals+3 more: $1,200 · AnimalsCenter for Visual Music: $13,500 · Arts & CultureFUTURE ROOTS INC: $1,250 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN ZOO INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $300 · Arts & CultureSHALOM AUSTIN: $9,800 · PhilanthropyJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OSCAR LITWAK FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyDICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION: $500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $300 · PhilanthropyA COMMITTMENT TO OUR ROOTS INC: $12,250 · ReligionWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $1,000 · Religion
Other$329,412Human Services$124,000Health$86,200Animals$19,950Arts & Culture$16,050Philanthropy$14,100Religion$13,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $64,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFULCRUM ARTS: $59,300 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $52,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHomeless Health Care Los Angeles: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $38,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $27,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPATH: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEATHER HEYER FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCenter for Visual Music: $13,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetA COMMITTMENT TO OUR ROOTS INC: $12,250 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION: $11,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM AUSTIN: $9,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO: $5,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER: $2,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE OF PASADENA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURE ROOTS INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SIDEWALK PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN ZOO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trail Conservancy: $570 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACE OF HEARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUPPY FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FULCRUM ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Health Care Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds HEATHER HEYER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Center for Visual Music ↗
  • Who funds A COMMITTMENT TO OUR ROOTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE 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.

Austin Community Foun…Jewish Community Foun…California Community …Gannett Foundation IncAlice Kleberg Reynold…St David's FoundationUnited Way WorldwideDallas Jewish Communi…Better Business BureauThe Annenberg Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hos…National Philanthropi…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · St David's Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Better Business Bureau · The Annenberg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · National Philanthropic Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report 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 87 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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