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The Seymour & Carol Levin 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Arts & Culture$1.8MEducation$1.3MPhilanthropy$239kInternational$54kReligion$37kHealth$10kFood & Nutrition$5kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,206,056
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION$1,206,056
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CREATIVE CAPITAL: $1k → 17%WELL SPRING RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $1k → 16%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF GREENSBORO: $1k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $250 → 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
NY
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CA
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
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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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 23 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
57

Total granted

$1.9M
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+31%

Still filing today

35%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther

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

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +100%
  • PS
    Penland School Of Craft
    3× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +54%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AM
    ACADEMIC MAGNET FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +141%
  • TA
    THE ARTS & SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • RC
    ROCKINGHAM CO EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +230%

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
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
The North Caroliniana Society

To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.

4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc

To resource, catalyze, and amplify how and why craft matters.

Arts & Culture
7
Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art

The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…

Arts & Culture
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
10
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
11
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
12
Charlotte Mecklenburg Afro-American Cultural and Service Center Inc

The harvey b. gantt center for african-american arts and culture (formerly the charlotte-mecklenburg afro-american cultural and service center) exists to present, preserve and promote african american art, culture and history for the…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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 backsteadyCancer Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsJewish Community Organizati…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Local History MuseumsHealth Access Advocacy and …Local Food System Organizat…School Parent OrganizationsCommunity Arts CentersCommunity Foundations
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 44 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%5%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr12%28%35–55yr12%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr12%68%35–55yr12%25%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,134

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

44 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
33/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WEATHERSPOON MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $1,738,000 · OtherWEATHERSPOON MUSEUM ASSOCIATION+53 more — $144,796 · Other+53 moreUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC — $1,206,056 · EducationUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC+3 more — $7,300 · EducationGREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION — $235,901 · PhilanthropyGREENSBOR…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $54,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAE…+1 more — $50 · PhilanthropyARTTABLE INC — $10,061 · Public BenefitPenland School Of Craft — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTRIAD STAGE INC — $1,030 · Arts & CultureGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $600 · Arts & CultureGREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART — $500 · Arts & CultureEASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $350 · Arts & CultureUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC — $250 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $250 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $443 · Arts & CultureCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $2,600 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthSENIOR PHARMASSIST INC — $700 · HealthAUTHORACARE FOUNDATION — $200 · Health+3 more — $198 · HealthOUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT — $4,060 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,882,796Education$1,213,356Philanthropy$289,951Public Benefit$10,061Arts & Culture$6,423Health$5,698Food & Nutrition$4,060

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 budgetUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC — $1,206,056 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION — $235,901 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $54,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTTABLE INC — $10,061 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION — $8,053 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetACADEMIC MAGNET FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetOUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT — $4,060 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $3,095 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPenland School Of Craft — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKINGHAM CO EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,800 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetAUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIAD STAGE INC — $1,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELL-SPRING RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR PHARMASSIST INC — $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $545 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART — $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVISUAL ART LIBRARY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA — $100 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetB'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $65 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity — $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $28 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $23 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC
  • Who funds ARTTABLE INC
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ACADEMIC MAGNET FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
  • Who funds Penland School Of Craft
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ROCKINGHAM CO EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE
  • Who funds TRIAD STAGE INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WELL-SPRING RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC
  • Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC
  • Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger

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 Ackermann FoundationNC24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ackermann Foundation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Jack Levin Foundation Inc · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Sigmund and Ellen Tannenbaum Foundation Inc · The Anonymous Fund · The Stout Family Foundation · Louis DeJoy & Aldona Z Wos Family Foundation Inc

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 Seymour & Carol Levin 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Seymour & Carol Levin Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Seymour & Carol Levin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 83 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.

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