Levitt Foundation Inc
New York, NY · EIN 13-6128226. Reported 175 grants totalling $2,949,500 to 84 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Levitt Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $9,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Community Foundation | Brooklyn, NY | $175,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Green Guerillas | Brooklyn, NY | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Urban Wild Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nos Quedamos | Bronx, NY | $130,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Food Advocates | New York, NY | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Equity Advocates | Harrison, NY | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Brotherhoodsisterhood Sol Inc | New York, NY | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Campaign Against Hunger | Brooklyn, NY | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Urban Justice Center | New York, NY | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Teens for Food Justice Inc | New York, NY | $95,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Childrens Aid Society | New York, NY | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lantern Community Services | New York, NY | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bronxworks Inc | Bronx, NY | $85,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mary Mitchell Family & Youth Center | Bronx, NY | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Community Center for East Ny Farms | Brooklyn, NY | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Scan-Harbor Inc | New York, NY | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| CUNY Graduate School for Public Health | New York, NY | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Queens Botanical Garden | Flushing, NY | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New York City Street Tree Consortium | New York, NY | $68,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Red Hook Initiative | Brooklyn, NY | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bk Rot Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Harlem Grown | New York, NY | $47,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Madison Square Boys & Girls Club Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $47,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Star Fundcommunity Food Funders | New York, NY | $42,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Brotherhoodsister Sol Inc | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation | Brooklyn, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grow Nyc | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Star Fund Community Food Funders | New York, NY | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Green City Force | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| CUNY School of Public Health Foundation | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hispanics in Philanthropy | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Research Foundation CUNY | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice | Bronx, NY | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Interfaith Nutrition Network | Hempstead, NY | $17,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Red Desk Education Services | Washington, DC | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Westchester Choral Society | White Plains, NY | $16,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $14,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Farm to Grow Inc | Oakland, CA | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Latino U College Access | White Plains, NY | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Philanthropy New York Inc | New York, NY | $13,900 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Chest of Port Washington | Port Washington, NY | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network | Detroit, MI | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Latinas on the Verge of Excellence | New York, NY | $12,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alzheimer's Association | Chicago, IL | $12,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Children's Museum | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Foundation Boulder County | Boulder, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Israel Emergency Alliance Dba Stand With US | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gallery Players | Brooklyn, NY | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Green Worker Inc | Bronx, NY | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Literacy Inc | New York, NY | $8,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Shakespeare & Company | Lenox, MA | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| A New Chance Animal Rescue Inc | Bedford Hills, NY | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Third Street Music School Settlement Inc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sankara Eye Foundation USA | Milpitas, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Francis Friends of the Poor | New York, NY | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Black Farmer Fund | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Democracy Forward Foundation | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gotham Scholars Inc | Summit, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Harlem Center for Education Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Inner-City Scholarship Fund Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Ny City | New York, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| One Space Institute | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Robert Toigo Foundation | Oakland, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Roots and Wings New Jersey | Denville, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sharethecaregiving Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The One Love Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bloom Again Bklyn | Brooklyn, NY | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dancing Classrooms | New York, NY | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Classic Theatre of Harlem Inc | New York, NY | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United States Soccer Federation Fdn Inc | Washington, DC | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | Bronx, NY | $4,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Borough of Brooklyn Center for Arts & Tec | Brooklyn, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc | Katonah, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grantmakers in Health | Washington, DC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nyc Kids Rise | Long Island City, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Farms to Grow Inc | Oakland, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wslr Inc | Sarasota, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our Core Inc | Newburgh, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Third Sector Capital Partners Inc | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
46 of 84 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 66%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Brooklyn Community Foundation
HATTIE CARTHAN URBAN AGRICULTURE YOUTH CORPS - CUNY Graduate School for Public Health
YOUNG ADULT FOOD JUSTICE FELLOWSHIP - Green Guerillas
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PIPELINE - The Brotherhoodsisterhood Sol Inc
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND FOOD EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE - Community Food Advocates
YOUTH FOOD ADVOCATES PROGRAM - Equity Advocates
BUILDING POWER & ADVOCACY SKILLS WITHIN NYC YOUTH FOOD JUSTICE COMMUNITY
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 118 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 45 | $740,400 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 47 | $815,000 | $6,500 |
| 2023 | 40 | $725,500 | $13,750 |
| 2024 | 43 | $668,600 | $5,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
95% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $9,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Levitt Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 333 7TH Avenue 9TH Floor, New York, NY, 10001. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
EIN 13-6128226 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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