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The Levitt 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $399k
- $250k+2 grants · $635k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $335,000 |
| CUREBOUND | $300,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $110,000 |
| DES MOINES ART CENTER | $75,200 |
| MILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $64,000 |
| EDLAVITCH DC JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $40,000 |
| CHABAD SHUL OF POTOMAC | $26,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $25,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY | $20,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES | $15,000 |
| LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD | $15,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY KOLLEL | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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 — 35 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO2× · 2021–2023 · $297k · revenue +33%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION3× · 2022–2024 · $155k · revenue +5%
Northwestern University2× · 2023–2024 · $128k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +45%
- EDEdlavitch DC Jewish Community Centerone grant, 2021 · $66k
- MOMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGOone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -87%
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
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…
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.
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,…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
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…
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.
Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 91 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds MILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds Froth and Bubble Foundation ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds NATURE SACRED ↗
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: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Mayberg Foundation Inc · Brenton Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Josh and Susie Kimelman Foundation · The Lynn Shapiro Snyder and Jeffrey M Snyder Family Foundation Inc · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund
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 Levitt 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc — 1% of income from government
- Saint Michael's College — 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.
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