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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 FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$7,500
MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC$7,500
ACLU FOUNDATION INC$7,500
HIAS$7,500
DEMOCRACY FORWARD$5,000
MARTHA'S TABLE$5,000
GEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER$3,000
ULMAN FOUNDATION$2,500
THE FOOD PROJECT$2,500
WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSISTANCE PROJECT$2,500
MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK$2,500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$2,500
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS$2,500
TEXAS FREDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY21–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IN
CA
MD
DC
AL
TX
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.
$477k · 27 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
7

Total granted

$477k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+31%

Still filing today

85%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHealthEducationFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +39%
  • MS
    MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +47%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +31%
  • NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +29%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +253%
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.

1
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
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
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
9
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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10
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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11
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
12
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Democracy Forward; the most unlike its peers is Life Pieces to Masterpieces. 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

27 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. 27 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $52,500 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUS…THE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COM…NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INCLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPI…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCON…Earlham College Inc: $12,000 · EducationEarlham College IncELDRIDGE STREET PROJECT: $18,000 · OtherELDRIDGE STREET PROJECTANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $14,500 · OtherANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUEGEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER: $11,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTERDC PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (PEABODY COLLECTION): $10,000 · OtherDC PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (P…DEMOCRACY FORWARD: $10,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY FORWARDEPISCOPAL CHAPLAINCY AT HARVARD: $5,000 · OtherGeorgetown Heritage: $20,000 · OtherGeorgetown HeritageSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $12,500 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCMake the Road New York: $5,000 · OtherBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $12,500 · OtherBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOME…UEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC: $6,000 · OtherNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $11,000 · Other+5 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $35,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…ULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthULMAN FOUN…Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $5,000 · HealthWomen's Re…HIAS INC: $30,000 · InternationalHIAS INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $2,500 · Civil RightsMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $29,000 · Food & NutritionThe Food Project Inc: $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$102,500Education$92,000Other$140,500Health$45,000International$45,000Civil Rights$39,000Food & Nutrition$36,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

Greater Washington Co…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Samuel M Levy Family Foundation Co Richard H Levy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home