FundersDelaware

The Diane and Harry Levin Foundation

Wilmington, DE · EIN 51-0351044. Reported 115 grants totalling $342,930 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$342,930granted, 2021-2024
42organizations funded
75%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,163,234assets, 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. The Diane and Harry Levin 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 $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $24,860. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
21 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
64 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
24 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Camphill SoltaneGlenmoore, PA$47,075442024
West End Neighborhood HouseWilmington, DE$38,000442024
Basser Center Gift FundPhiladelphia, PA$30,000332024
Tulane UniversityNew Orleans, LA$20,000442024
Jewish Federation of DelawareWilmington, DE$18,404442024
Congregation Beth ShalomWilmington, DE$18,000112022
American Red CrossWashington, DC$15,000442024
Planned ParenthoodWilmington, DE$15,000332024
Delaware Art MuseumWilmington, DE$13,500442024
Nemours Fund for Children's HealthWilmington, DE$13,500442024
Pancreatic Cancer Action NetworkManhattan Beach, CA$12,500332024
Abramson Cancer CenterPhiladelphia, PA$10,000222023
Food Bank of DelawareNewark, DE$10,000442024
Meals on WheelsWilmington, DE$10,000442024
Children & Families First of DelawareWilmington, DE$9,000442024
Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition IncWilmington, DE$6,093442024
The Camphill SchoolGlenmoore, PA$5,000442024
Susan G KomenDallas, TX$4,600222023
Rehobeth Art LeagueRehoboth Beach, DE$4,500442024
Sunday Breakfast MissionPhiladelphia, PA$4,500442024
ThorncroftMalvern, PA$4,000442024
Clear Space Theatre CompanyRehoboth Beach, DE$3,750442024
Delaware GreenwaysWilmington, DE$3,000442024
Faithful Friends Animal SocietyWilmington, DE$2,500332024
The Happy DifferenceMontchanin, DE$2,500112024
The Mary Campbell CenterWilmington, DE$2,500332024
Kutz Senior Living CampusWilmington, DE$2,268332024
Habitat for HumanityAtlanta, GA$2,100112024
Friends of Wilmington ParksMontchanin, DE$2,000442024
Girls on the Run DelawareWilmington, DE$2,000112021
The Arc of Chester CountyWest Chester, PA$2,000222024
Jewish Family Services of DelawareWilmington, DE$1,540222024
Paws for PeopleNewark, DE$1,500332023
Camphill Village Kimberton HillsKimberton, PA$1,000112024
National Ability CenterPark City, UT$1,000222024
Rehobeth Beach Volunteer Fire CompanyRehoboth Beach, DE$1,000112022
Serviam Girls AcademyWilmington, DE$1,000112022
University of DelawareNewark, DE$1,000112021
Cancer Support CommunityWilmington, DE$500112022
Pccentral SynagogueNew York, NY$500112024
Sonoma Family MealPetaluma, CA$500112022
Delaware Kidney FundWilmington, DE$100112022

30 of 42 (71%) 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 75%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 61 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
11 grants
Health Care
11 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Arts & Culture
8 grants
Environment
8 grants
Food & Nutrition
5 grants
Diseases & Disorders
3 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202128$77,772$2,000
202228$78,065$1,000
202328$83,300$2,400
202431$103,793$1,500

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 53% of this one's giving went to organizations in Delaware. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Delaware
$183K
Pennsylvania
$104K
Louisiana
$20K
District of Columbia
$15K
California
$13K
Texas
$5K
Georgia
$2K
Utah
$1K

Find more foundations like The Diane and Harry Levin Foundation

We email you newly filed foundations whose giving matches your state and cause, as the IRS publishes them. Free.

No spam, unsubscribe in one click. We never sell or share your address.

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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsDelaware Community Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipientsLaffey-Mchugh Foundation10 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Delaware.
  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.

Related guides

Foundations funding education in PennsylvaniaEvery funder in this group, rankedFoundations funding human services in PennsylvaniaEvery funder in this group, rankedFoundations funding arts & culture in PennsylvaniaEvery funder in this group, ranked

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Diane and Harry Levin Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: C Levin 1100 Lovering Ave 1702, Wilmington, DE, 19806. 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 51-0351044 · 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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

Is something here wrong about your foundation? Email hello@funderscope.com and we will correct it.