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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$335k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.7MHealth$651kArts & Culture$649kInternational$386kEducation$352kReligion$289kRecreation & Sports$181kYouth Development$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $399k
  • $250k+2 grants · $635k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON$335,000
CUREBOUND$300,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$110,000
DES MOINES ART CENTER$75,200
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$75,000
MILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL$75,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$64,000
EDLAVITCH DC JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$40,000
CHABAD SHUL OF POTOMAC$26,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$25,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$20,000
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY$20,000
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD$15,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES$15,000
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY KOLLEL$10,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FROTH AND BUBBLE FOUNDATION FOR FOOD ASSISTANCE: $6k → 11%THE FROTH AND BUBBLE FOUNDATION FOR FOOD ASSISTANCE: $5k → 11%THE FROTH AND BUBBLE FOUNDATION FOR FOOD ASSISTANCE: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $100 → 11%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY: $4k → 8%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

VT
MN
IL
WI
NY
IA
CT
CA
NE
MD
AZ
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 40 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
35

Total granted

$2.6M
$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    2× · 2021–2023 · $297k · revenue +33%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $155k · revenue +3%
  • Northwestern University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $128k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +45%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -87%
  • TS
    The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -14%
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

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.

Philanthropy
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

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…

Philanthropy
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
6
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
7
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

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,…

Philanthropy
8
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

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.

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11
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

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…

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12
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 88 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)
62/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $971,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON I…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $351,100 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINESJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $297,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $60,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $62,000 · PhilanthropyCUREBOUND: $600,000 · HealthCUREBOUNDMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC+3 more: $300 · HealthEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $301,000 · Arts & CultureEdmundson Art Fo…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $154,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INST…MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEM…MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOCI…THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $49,550 · Arts & Culture+10 moreEdlavitch DC Jewish Community Center: $186,000 · OtherEdlavitch DC …UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $55,050 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…CHABAD SHUL OF POTOMAC: $52,000 · OtherCHABAD SHUL O…Individual grant recipient: $23,600 · OtherGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $20,000 · OtherTIFERETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE: $19,035 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $25,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $26,000 · OtherFroth and Bubble Foundation: $20,500 · OtherThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $25,000 · Other+35 more: $73,106 · Other+35 moreAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $50,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationMILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $100,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $25,100 · EducationCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $15,540 · EducationISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $12,500 · Education+4 more: $3,350 · EducationNorthwestern University: $128,000 · Recreation & SportsLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $52,500 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$1,741,100Health$650,300Arts & Culture$615,050Other$525,291International$335,000Education$306,490Recreation & Sports$180,500

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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $971,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCUREBOUND: $600,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $351,100 over 4y, 13% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $301,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $297,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $154,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $128,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $52,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $51,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA: $26,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $25,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFroth and Bubble Foundation: $20,500 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $15,540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATURE SACRED: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $6,196 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZIONESS MOVEMENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetZionist Rabbinic Coalition Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEF BET MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRENTON ARBORETUM INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE ORCHESTRA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEQUEST: $250 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.

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 Jewish Federation…Bookey Family Foundat…Mayberg Foundation IncBrenton FoundationMeredith Corporation …Josh and Susie Kimelm…The Lynn Shapiro Snyd…Mary K and Daniel M K…The Annette M Lerner …EMC Insurance Foundat…The Merchants Bonding…The Independent Chari…
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington IncMD23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to The Levitt Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Levitt 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 88 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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