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The Peter and Mary Levin Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$620k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$88k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$950kCivil Rights$410kEducation$335kHuman Services$253kPhilanthropy$203kArts & Culture$123kCrime & Legal$89kInternational$84kPublic Benefit$60kOther$740k
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $379k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
$4,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER$88,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$50,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE BERKSHIRES$40,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHI$30,000
IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE LAW CENTER$28,250
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$25,000
CINCINNATI ARTS FOUNDATION$23,000
PREGNANCY JUSTICE$22,250
WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUTH CHILDREN$22,250
HER CINCINNATI$22,250
MAYDAY MEDICINES INC$22,250
FIRST STEP HOME$22,250
JUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER$22,250
VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER$22,250
GRAD CINCINNATI$15,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRICKET HILL ACADEMY FOR HORSEMANSH: $500 → 11%VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER: $22k → 8%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $25k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $22k → 16%SECOND STORY: $10k → 6%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $10k → 16%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $40k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $40k → 17%SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER BANK: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $750 → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $500 → 12%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $15k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 51 repeat orgs$762k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
52

Total granted

$1.5M
$600k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+17%

Still filing today

82%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • OJ
    OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER
    5× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +24%
  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +143%
  • GC
    GRAD CINCINNATI INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • IH
    I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • SU
    STATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +90%
  • RC
    REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM
    one grant, 2020 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
3
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

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4
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement
5
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
6
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
7
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
8
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
9
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

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10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
11
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
12
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati and the most unlike its peers is Rise Up News. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyPregnancy Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportMilitary Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Food Banks and PantriesYouth Mentoring ProgramsSenior Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Public Library OperationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Affordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and ShelterWomen & Girls Leadership De…Domestic Violence ServicesImmigrant Worker Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr12%11%5–10yr21%12%10–20yr14%30%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr20%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr12%12%5–10yr21%6%10–20yr14%49%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr20%9%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/91
the rest of the field
11%
8,036/74,215

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.

04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 124 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/90
Grantees still filing
55/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INTERACT FOR CHANGE — $685,595 · HealthINTERACT FOR CHANGEVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC — $185,200 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES…+6 more — $78,750 · Health+6 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHI — $95,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST O…OHIO INNOCENCE PROJECT — $63,000 · OtherOHIO INNOCENCE PROJECTHAND IN HAND CENTER FOR JEWISH — $45,500 · OtherI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherImmigrant & Refugee Law Center — $48,250 · OtherNEW ISRAEL FUND — $70,800 · OtherNEW ISRAEL FUNDCenter for Common Ground — $35,000 · OtherFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $42,000 · OtherJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $32,500 · Other+56 more — $501,136 · Other+56 moreOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $194,500 · Civil RightsOHIO JUSTICE A…PREGNANCY JUSTICE INC — $47,250 · Civil RightsPREGNANCY JUST…STATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC — $30,000 · Civil RightsSTATES UNITED …PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $30,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCR…Fair Elections Center — $30,000 · Civil RightsFair Elections…Equality Ohio Education Fund — $25,000 · Civil RightsEquality Ohio …AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $15,000 · Civil RightsCOBALT FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Civil RightsGRAD CINCINNATI INC — $95,500 · EducationGRAD CINCIN…BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC — $60,800 · EducationBARRINGTON …LET'S GET READY INC — $59,400 · EducationLET'S GET R…Williams College — $44,650 · EducationWilliams Co…COSMIC WRITERS CORP — $27,500 · EducationCOSMIC WRIT…Civic Nation — $21,500 · EducationCivic Natio…+4 more — $25,150 · Education+4 moreASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesStrategies to End Homelessness Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesTeambrownsville Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC — $22,250 · Human ServicesTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC — $22,250 · Human ServicesEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy — $15,500 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOVERD GREATER CINCINNATI — $15,000 · Human ServicesABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $3,250 · Human ServicesJewish Federation of Cincinnati — $173,800 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY SHARES OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $21,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $8,450 · PhilanthropyCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $35,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI — $25,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT YOGA INC — $16,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $10,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN VIRGINIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLINTON INCORPORATED — $7,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $6,100 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Public Radio Inc — $6,100 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $4,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $2,350 · Arts & Culture
Health$949,545Other$973,186Civil Rights$409,750Education$334,500Human Services$253,250Philanthropy$203,250Arts & Culture$122,550

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERACT FOR CHANGE — $685,595 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $194,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC — $185,200 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati — $173,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGRAD CINCINNATI INC — $95,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $70,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC — $60,800 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC — $59,400 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetImmigrant & Refugee Law Center — $48,250 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC — $47,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWilliams College — $44,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStrategies to End Homelessness Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Common Ground — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFair Elections Center — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOSMIC WRITERS CORP — $27,500 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTeambrownsville Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation — $23,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC — $22,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER — $22,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC — $22,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCivic Nation — $21,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARES OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $21,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetBethany House Services Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC — $18,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT YOGA INC — $16,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC — $15,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy — $15,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGIRLS INSPIRED AND READ TO LEAD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOVERD GREATER CINCINNATI — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc — $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…John a Schroth Family…Carol Ann and Ralph V…United Way of Greater…Johnson Charitable Gi…Millstone FundElsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Interact for ChangeThe Thomas J Emery Me…Ruth J & Robert a Con…Marge & Charles J Sch…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH43.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Millstone Fund · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Interact for Change · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Marge & Charles J Schott 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 Peter and Mary Levin Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
  • New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
26report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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