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David M Levy Family Foundation

Lakewood, NJ · EIN 31-1810051. Reported 23 grants totalling $276,779 to 23 recipients across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,600median grant
$276,779granted, 2024
23recipients, as named on its returns
$8,845assets, latest filing

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. David M Levy Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $3,600. Half of everything it gave fell between $750 and $12,700; the smallest was $101 and the largest $95,946. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
6 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
8 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Larchwood SynagogueOakhurst, NJ$95,946112024
Ohel Simcha Super FundLong Branch, NJ$44,000112024
Dsn Community CenterOakhurst, NJ$36,000112024
Hillel YeshivaOcean Township, NJ$26,000112024
Synagogue of DealDeal, NJ$18,000112024
Ilan High SchoolDeal, NJ$12,700112024
Sephardic Bikur HolimBrooklyn, NY$7,200112024
Chabad of the ShoreLong Branch, NJ$5,200112024
Congregation Ohel YishakAllenhurst, NJ$5,200112024
Hatzalah Ems of the Jersey ShoreOakhurst, NJ$4,200112024
Edmond J Safra SynagogueDeal, NJ$4,051112024
New York Cancer CenterBrooklyn, NY$3,600112024
Sephardic Division of Chaim MedicalBrooklyn, NY$3,600112024
Congregation Magen David of West DealOcean Township, NJ$3,000112024
Ohr Halacha IncFar Rockaway, NY$3,000112024
Boys & Girls Club of Nw NjWayne, NJ$2,500112024
Northwell HealthNew Hyde Park, NY$1,000112024
Rochel Leah Chesed FundBrooklyn, NY$750112024
Deal First Aide & EmergencyDeal, NJ$252112024
Deal Pba Local 101Deal, NJ$252112024
Sephardic Community CenterBrooklyn, NY$126112024
Kollel Ohr MosheBrooklyn, NY$101112024
Ohel Yishak of AllenhurstAllenhurst, NJ$101112024
Plus 77 grants to individuals totalling $741,016 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 8 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.

Religion
3 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Human Services
1 grant

Where its money goes

93% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New Jersey
$257K
New York
$19K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsThe Mamiye Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,600. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Jersey.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 David M Levy Family Foundation'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: 1195 Route 70 2002, Lakewood, NJ, 08701. 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 31-1810051 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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