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The Levecke Family Foundation at a glance

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The Levecke Family 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.

$7.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$6.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$8.3MHealth$3.3MReligion$2.7MEducation$2.6MYouth Development$277kEmployment$210kArts & Culture$33kHousing & Shelter$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $250k+3 grants · $7.5M
$1,000,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY$6,054,845
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY$1,000,000
CHOC FOUNDATION$400,000
HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%ORDER OF MALTA - WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES FORT WORTH: $15k → 11%SACRED HEART CATHOLIC MISSION INCORPORATED: $5k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA: $24k → 11%ORDER OF MALTA - WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES FORT WORTH: $7k → 11%SACRED HEART CATHOLIC MISSION: $5k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA: $3k → 11%ORDER OF MALTA - WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%GRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE (GRACE): $15k → 11%SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%GRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE (GRACE): $12k → 11%SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $8k → 10%GRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE (GRACE): $9k → 11%ORDER OF MALTA - WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10k → 10%ORDER OF MALTA - WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%ORDER OF MALTA - WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%ORDER OF MALTA - WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%ORDER OF MALTA - WESTERN ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $6.1M → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1.0M → 10%WELLS OF LIFE INC: $25k → 10%WELLS OF LIFE INC: $10k → 10%WELLS OF LIFE INC: $2k → 10%KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $5k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $5k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $3k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $3k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $3k → 10%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

IL
NY
OR
PA
CA
MD
AZ
HI
MS
TX
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.
$17M · 51 repeat orgs$294k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
21

Total granted

$17M
$294k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+42%

Still filing today

51%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCivil 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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +2%
  • CF
    CHOC FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +103%
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $305k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • WO
    WELLS OF LIFE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue +187%
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF PEACE BASILICA
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
2
Children's Hospital of Orange County

To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
4
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
6
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
7
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
8
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
9
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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12
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Orange County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tim Salmon 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

39 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. 39 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $7,064,845 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC+9 more: $397,500 · Human ServicesROSARY ACADEMY: $1,229,000 · OtherROSARY ACADEMYHOPE BUILDERS: $840,000 · OtherHOPE BUILDERSDOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE: $731,000 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSEORANGE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION: $680,833 · OtherORANGE CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONUSA WEST PROVINCE SOCIETY OF JESUS: $385,000 · OtherUSA WEST PROVINCE SOCIETY OF JESUSMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE: $362,500 · OtherMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC BI…+34 more: $1,926,316 · Other+34 moreCHOC FOUNDATION: $2,694,250 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATIONHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $163,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $145,000 · Health+8 more: $164,500 · HealthLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $305,000 · EducationTALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS: $210,000 · EducationCRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $35,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationHIGHER GROUND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $170,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentPRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $7,500 · Arts & CultureOBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $22,000 · Civil RightsCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $13,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$7,462,345Other$6,154,649Health$3,166,750Education$555,000Youth Development$197,000Arts & Culture$37,500Civil Rights$35,000

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 budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $7,064,845 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $2,694,250 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $305,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS: $210,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCASA TERESA INC: $174,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetHIGHER GROUND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $170,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $163,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $145,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USA: $71,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $62,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY: $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWELLS OF LIFE INC: $37,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE: $36,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $31,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND BLINDNESS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWith Hope The Amber Craig Memorial Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $27,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSANTIAGO RETREAT CENTER: $25,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $24,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $22,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCATERINAS CLUB: $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIVING CHILDREN HOPE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSACRED HEART CATHOLIC MISSION INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE HOSPITAL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrackens Kitchen Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Tim Salmon Foundation: $3,200 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS ↗
  • Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER GROUND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USA ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds WELLS OF LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds THE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
  • Who funds With Hope The Amber Craig Memorial Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…The Devto Support Fou…Farmers & Merchants B…Nobbs Family Foundati…Catholic Community Fo…The Michael & Patrici…Sisters of St Joseph …O L Halsell FoundationEdwards Lifesciences …The Terrance K and El…Hoag Memorial Hospita…Weingart Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA36.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Nobbs Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Michael & Patricia Smith Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The Terrance K and Elizabeth L Barry Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Weingart 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 Levecke Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Levecke Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Levecke Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Levecke Family 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.

    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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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