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William S & Ina Levine Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$4.1MArts & Culture$1.5MPhilanthropy$930kInternational$524kHealth$333kEducation$316kCivil Rights$178kYouth Development$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $327k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $704k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$200,000
YAHAD-IN-UNUM MID-AMERICA$100,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$100,000
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$54,000
BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF ARIZONA$50,000
USHER 1F COLLABORATIVE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY$25,000
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$25,000
ISRAEL HERITAGE FOUNDATION$25,000
BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION$18,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
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 (FY18–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RYAN HOUSE: $3k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%PHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES: $1k → 11%GREATER PHOENIX JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: $5k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $25k → 11%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

ME
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
NM
AR
DC
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 41 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
40

Total granted

$7.5M
$821k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+50%

Still filing today

56%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $463k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalReligionHealthOther
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

  • VO
    VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +29%
  • BO
    BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX
    6× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +21%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    3× · 2017–2020 · $134k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • AM
    AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +380%
  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue -6%
  • AT
    ARIZONA TENNIS CHARITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $108k · revenue ×15 · 93% of their budget
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
Nishmat Adin

Nishmat adin lays the foundation for students to become lifelong learners and scholars steeped in their jewish roots and identities, confident in their talents, adept at navigating the world around them, emboldened to turn challenge into…

Education
2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Yeshiva of Phoenix

To create an educationally advanced orthodox elementary school to prepare students to be strong, committed, observant jews.

Philanthropy
4
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
5
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
6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
7
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
8
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
10
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
11
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
12
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix; the most unlike its peers is Shakti Rising Inc. 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

57 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. 57 of the 101 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
36/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,551,894 · OtherVALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INCThe Ciesla Foundation: $1,025,000 · OtherThe Ciesla FoundationJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $900,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHOENIXTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCET DE PAUL: $440,000 · OtherTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCET DE PAUL+67 more: $2,126,626 · Other+67 moreYAHAD- IN UNUM MID-AMERICA: $200,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $137,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $25,000 · International+3 more: $16,800 · InternationalBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $224,500 · ReligionREMEMBER US - THE HOLOCAUST BNAI MITZVAH PROJECT: $135,000 · ReligionDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $100,000 · ReligionThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $134,000 · Arts & CultureAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $62,500 · Arts & CultureDAVID LABKOVSKI PROJECT: $45,000 · Arts & CultureFORUM ON LIFE CULTURE & SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $175,000 · HealthUsher 1F Collaborative Inc: $100,000 · HealthMinkoff Center for Jewish Genetics: $17,500 · HealthARIZONA TENNIS CHARITIES: $108,000 · Recreation & SportsARIZONA SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsYESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF ARIZONA: $40,000 · EducationVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH: $22,500 · EducationTORAH HIGH SCHOOLS OF SAN DIEGO: $18,000 · EducationNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $17,500 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationBETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL OF DENVER: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · Education
Other$7,043,520International$503,800Religion$459,500Arts & Culture$401,500Health$292,500Recreation & Sports$121,000Education$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,551,894 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetThe Ciesla Foundation: $1,025,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $224,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetYAHAD- IN UNUM MID-AMERICA: $200,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $137,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREMEMBER US - THE HOLOCAUST BNAI MITZVAH PROJECT: $135,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $134,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA TENNIS CHARITIES: $108,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUsher 1F Collaborative Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAREER CONCEPTS FOR YOUTH: $66,500 over 8y, 17% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $62,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDAVID LABKOVSKI PROJECT: $45,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetYESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF ARIZONA: $40,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHope Ignites Phoenix: $27,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKATAHDIN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFORUM ON LIFE CULTURE & SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE NISKANEN CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH: $22,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinkoff Center for Jewish Genetics: $17,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAS FUTURE INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST PLACE AZ: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA RESTAURANT AND HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHuman Services Campus Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL OF DENVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSERVE THE FUTURE AZ: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTexas One Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Ciesla Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds YAHAD- IN UNUM MID-AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds REMEMBER US - THE HOLOCAUST BNAI MITZVAH PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA TENNIS CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Usher 1F Collaborative Inc ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds CAREER CONCEPTS FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds DAVID LABKOVSKI PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds Hope Ignites Phoenix ↗
  • Who funds KATAHDIN FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundArizona Community Fou…The Jess and Sheila S…Friedel Family Founda…Jewish Federation of …Virginia G Piper Char…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Community Asso…Garcia Family Foundat…Thunderbirds CharitiesSam and Judy Linhart …
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater PhoenixAZ29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Jewish Communal Fund · Arizona Community Foundation · The Jess and Sheila Schwartz Family Foundation · Friedel Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Association of Greater Phoenix · Garcia Family Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Sam and Judy Linhart 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 William S & Ina Levine Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William S & Ina Levine Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 William S & Ina Levine 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 101 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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