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The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy

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.

$71k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 17
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsInternationalHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$71k7%
FY202416$70k38%
FY202314$64k21%
FY202215$66k0%
FY202117$62k24%
FY202012$40k33%
FY20188$53k0%
FY201717$77kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$115kEducation$106kCivil Rights$56kFood & Nutrition$43kHealth$40kInternational$30kHousing & Shelter$29kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IN
CA
MD
DC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($55k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan School of Music: $52,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $35,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMartha's Table Inc: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown Heritage: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Play Production Company Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Live Arts Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarlham College Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown Ministry Center: $11,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDemocracy Forward: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLife Pieces to Masterpieces: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUempower of Maryland Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUlman Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMake the Road New York: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ellington Fund: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy

How much does The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy give?
The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy reported 15 grants totaling $70,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (21%), Civil Rights (11%).
Who are The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Wisconsin Foundation ($80k), Manhattan School of Music ($53k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($35k).
Does The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy based?
The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy is based in DC.

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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