· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FULCRUM ARTS | $7,000 |
| SHALOM AUSTIN | $2,000 |
| HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO | $1,800 |
| NCPTF | $1,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSN | $1,000 |
| PAWS ON DEATH ROW | $500 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUN OF THE TEXAS HILL CO | $500 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $500 |
| PUPPY FOOD BANK | $500 |
| HUMANE SOCIAITY OF AUSTIN TRAVIS CT | $500 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $250 |
| AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION | $250 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL7× · 2017–2023 · $64k · revenue +154%
- FAFULCRUM ARTS8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +74%
- AFALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC3× · 2021–2023 · $52k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- ABAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +107%- VBVALLEY BETH SHALOM DAY SCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
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.
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.…
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;…
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…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Family Housing Corporation and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
57 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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 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 James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- 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 OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT 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.
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
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 Lefkowitz Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.