· Private foundation
The Myron P Leven 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA SED (LATIN AMERICAN FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC DEV) | $103,900 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY AND METRO YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $62,000 |
| OTHER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES | $59,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $53,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (ANN ARBOR & DEARBORN) | $33,500 |
| GESHER HUMAN SERVICES | $12,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $10,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $8,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY | $7,000 |
| MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER | $6,375 |
| WRCJ 909 FM RADIO | $6,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN JAZZ FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB OF METRO DETROIT | $3,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY8× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +20%- GHGESHER HUMAN SERVICES3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +47%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS6× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- LALATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +26%
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.
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
The mission of desc is to cultivate local workforce talent to align with the needs of the business community through partnerships with key workforce agencies, faith- and community- based organizations, education and training institutions,…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.
Diref enchances cross-cultural understanding, develops contacts, and opens channels of communication for investment and other business activities by promoting, supporting, and administering educational and research programs in healthcare…
The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
To foster the history and nurture the development of jazz, to perpetuate detroit's significant jazz legacy through educational and collaborative opportunities accessible to all, and to present a world-class signature event that makes…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 28 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 UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN JAZZ FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
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 Lisa and Brian Meer Foundation · The Driker Family Foundation · Donald R and Esther Simon Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Myron P Leven 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.
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.