· Private foundation
The Meyer Levy Charitable Trust
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of The Meyer Levy Charitable Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Dallas Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Meyer Levy Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $162k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k11 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS FOUNDATION | $39,500 |
| CHALLENGE AIR FOR KIDS & FRIENDS | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FORT WORTH | $15,000 |
| HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| SHALOM AUSTIN - GENERATIONS CAMPAIGN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE | $8,000 |
| TREE FOLKS INC | $7,500 |
| FIREFLY FUND | $5,000 |
| LONE STAR CIRCLE OF CARE | $5,000 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN OF AUSTIN | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $5,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - AUSTIN | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -43% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +50%
- COCARITAS OF AUSTIN3× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +40%
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS4× · 2020–2024 · $71k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CFCenter for Women and Their Work Incone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -43%
- CDCOMPADRES DEL RANCHO GRANDEone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE AIR FOR KIDS AND FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TreeFolks Inc ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR CIRCLE OF CARE ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds SPINEHOPE FKA SPINAL DEFORMITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Women and Their Work Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Meyer Levy Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meyer Levy Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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