How much does The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation give?

The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $5,547,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (61%), Arts & Culture (25%), Civil Rights (5%).

Who are The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Rockefeller University ($9.8M), Juilliard School ($2.8M), George Jackson Academy ($1.8M).

Does The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.

Where is The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation based?

The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation is based in FL.

The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation

The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.5M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2.6M

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$16MArts & Culture$6.7MCivil Rights$1.3MReligion$822kHealth$448kInternational$348kPhilanthropy$269kHuman Services$183kOther$0

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $35k
$10k–50k11 grants · $140k
$50k–250k4 grants · $222k
$250k+6 grants · $5.2M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY	$2,600,000
ACTA FOUNDATION	$650,000
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI	$650,000
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER	$500,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART	$500,000
THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION	$250,000
THE PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE	$72,000
JUILLIARD SCHOOL	$50,000
THE HUDSON INSTITUTE	$50,000
THE MANHATTAN INSTITUTE	$50,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS	$25,000
GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL	$25,000
DANIEL W OFFIT FUND TO FIGHT GLIOBLASTOMA	$10,000
THE TIKWAG FUND	$10,000
WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATIONS	$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–19, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$25M · 41 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$25M

$818k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%

+40%

Still filing today

63%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $417k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

TR
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $9.8M · revenue +33%
JS
JUILLIARD SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +64%
GJ
GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY
4× · 2017–2020 · $1.8M · revenue +26%

Funded once

TN
THE NORTON MUSEUM
one grant, 2022 · $200k
FF
FUND FOR COVID 19 RESEARCH
one grant, 2020 · $200k
EA
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +188%

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.

The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

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

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

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

Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 96 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/56

Grantees still filing

42/56

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$15,259,465Other$7,459,339Arts & Culture$2,830,350International$332,500Philanthropy$249,500Civil Rights$215,000Human Services$171,000

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY22.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul & Karen Levy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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