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The Steven J Levinson Medical Research Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Steven J Levinson Medical Research Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$814k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$787k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2023.

Philanthropy$797kScience & Tech$150kReligion$52kEducation$5kArts & Culture$4kHealth$3k
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $250k+1 grant · $787k
$18,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE STEVEN AND BEDE LEVINSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC$787,226
COLEL CHABAD$18,000
GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL$5,000
FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC$3,600
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $180 → 6%PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $4k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION- ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $50k → 17%COLEL CHABAD: $30k → 20%GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5k → 15%PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER: $3k → 7%INTERNATIONAL RETTSYNDROME FOUNDATION: $250 → 16%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION- ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $50k → 17%COLEL CHABAD: $18k → 20%THE STEVEN AND BEDE LEVINSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $787k → 15%PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER: $1k → 7%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION- ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $50k → 17%GILDA'S CLUB WESTCHESTER: $1k → 9%JANET BURROS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%JANET BURROS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION- ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $325 → 17%JDRF: $500 → 17%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.
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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 4 repeat orgs$798k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$64k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+1%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $796k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • CC
    COLEL CHABAD
    2× · 2022–2023 · $48k
  • JB
    Janet Burros Memorial Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue -52%
  • PL
    PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER
    2× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CS
    CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -23%
  • PC
    PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +99%
  • IR
    International Rett Syndrome Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue +1%
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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
2
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
3
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
4
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
7
The Jed Ian Taxel Foundation for Rare Cancer Research Inc

To inspire and empower scientific breakthroughs, clinical trials and improved treatments which change lives and enable better outcomes for rare cancer patients and their families.

Health
8
J Walter Juckett Cancer Research Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
Crush Rett Syndrome

Raise Awareness/Fund Finding a Cure for Rett Syndrome

Health
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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12
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Support Community Greater Ny & Ct Inc; the most unlike its peers is Janet Burros Memorial Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE STEVEN AND BEDE LEVINSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $787,226 · OtherTHE STEVEN AND BEDE LEVINSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INCCOLEL CHABAD: $48,000 · OtherCOLEL CHABAD+1 more: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $150,325 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY…GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationPEARSON LAKES ART CENTER: $4,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $3,600 · ReligionBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,500 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC: $1,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation: $250 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $180 · Health
Other$845,226International$150,325Education$5,000Arts & Culture$4,000Religion$3,600Health$3,430

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $150,325 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEARSON LAKES ART CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Steven J Levinson Medical Research Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steven J Levinson Medical Research Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Gulliver Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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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Find your warmest path to The Steven J Levinson Medical Research Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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