· Private foundation
Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of ZALEC FAMILIAN & LILIAN LEVINSON FDN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| THE COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION ON DEAFNESS | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| INSIGHT HOUSING | $18,000 |
| UCLA | $15,000 |
| STILES HALL TUTOR & MENTOR PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WEST COAST CHILDRENS CLINIC | $10,000 |
| CREATIVE GROWTH ART CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE PEOPLE CONCERN | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF THE EAST BAY | $10,000 |
| PLOUGH SHARES FUND | $8,000 |
| EAST BAY REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| MONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CTCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +1%
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +2%- TPTHE PEOPLE CONCERN5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- ATACHIEVE TAHOEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- EHEnvironmental Health Coalitionone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -71%
- CACOMM ALLIANCE FOR SPECIAL EDone grant, 2024 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the arc san francisco is to transform the lives of adults with developmental disabilities by advancing lifelong learning, personal achievement, and independence.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…
To empower people living with mental health and co-occurring substance use challenges to achieve recovery, self-sufficiency, and deeply connected, meaningful lives within their communities.we do this by: delivering culturally responsive…
The mission of the East Bay Childrens Law Offices, Inc. is to protect and defend the rights of children and youth through holistic, vigorous and compassionate legal advocacy. EBCLO strives to provide a voice for children in and out of…
Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…
To provide each student or participant with the access, skills, and opportunities needed to become successful and productive members of society, and to encourage them to have some fun along the way. The Organization offers support and…
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adaptive Learning Center and the most unlike its peers is Moving Forward Towards Independence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
47 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 93 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creative Growth Art Center ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH UPRISING ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Dorothy Day House ↗
- Who funds East Bay Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds The Tiny House Project ↗
- Who funds Center for Early Intervention on Deafness ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds BANANAS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project ↗
- Who funds EDEN PEOPLEPLANET ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Impactassetsinc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation
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 Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn 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.
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.