Funder Standing / Leon Levy Foundation

Leon Levy Foundation

NY · EIN 306085406 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

53 of 213 organizations Leon Levy Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 28.7%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 33.0%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
28.7%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$25,000
Range $40 – $8,726,786
Repeat-dollar share
74.9%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
No
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
99.1%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$8,726,786
GRADUATE CENTER - CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$3,275,000
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$2,818,101
PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE$2,050,000
CITY COLLEGE NEW YORK THE$1,555,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,440,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,035,000
BARD GRADUATE CENTERnew$1,035,000
WHITE LEVY PROGRAM FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS$1,007,169
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY$1,000,000
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART$900,000
BNT FUNDnew$648,814
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS$636,156
IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS$625,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$600,000
PUBLIC THEATER THE$525,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$500,000
MOUNT SINAI$500,000
ANNE FRANK HOUSEnew$500,000
NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM$413,400
ISRAEL NATURE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$400,000
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN THE$375,000
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$325,000
JEWISH MUSEUM THE$285,000
NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY$250,000

Showing the 25 largest of 213 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what Leon Levy Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

If this is your foundation.

Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.