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The Levenger Foundation Inc

Delray Beach, FL · EIN 65-0810176. Reported 60 grants totalling $338,703 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$338,703granted, 2021-2024
38organizations funded
35%of grantees funded again the next year
$6,065,998assets, 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 Levenger 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.

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 $10,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
9 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
27 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
19 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
West Palm Beach Library FoundationWest Palm Beach, FL$70,000442024
The Literacy Coalition of Palm BeachBoynton Beach, FL$45,000332024
English TogetherPalo Alto, CA$40,000332023
Delray Beach Public LibraryDelray Beach, FL$35,145332024
Vassar CollegePoughkeepsie, NY$20,000222023
Brookyln Academy of MusicBrooklyn, NY$15,000112023
Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach CountyBoynton Beach, FL$15,000112021
Vassar College Art MuseumPoughkeepsie, NY$12,000112024
Boca Raton Regional HospitalBoca Raton, FL$10,000112022
Bowdoin CollegeBrunswick, ME$10,000112022
Village AcademyDelray Beach, FL$10,000222024
Midcoast LiteracyBath, ME$9,000332023
The Arts GarageDelray Beach, FL$5,500222023
Bowdoin College Multilingual MainersBrunswick, ME$5,000112024
Multilingual Mainers Bowdoin CollegeBrunswick, ME$5,000112021
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWashington, DC$4,500332024
Holbrook Community FoundationHarpswell, ME$3,000222023
Impact 100Boca Raton, FL$2,100222023
Pan Mass ChallengeNeedham, MA$2,053222024
Achievement Centers for Children & FamiliesDelray Beach, FL$2,000112023
CreaNew York, NY$2,000222023
Curtis Memorial LibraryBrunswick, ME$2,000222023
Helix High School FoundationLa Mesa, CA$2,000112024
Norton Musem of ArtWest Palm Beach, FL$2,000112023
Stanford UniversityStanford, CA$2,000112022
Ukranian Crisis FoundationFederal Way, WA$2,000112022
Impact 100 PbcBoca Raton, FL$1,050112021
Atlantic Challenge Team Building Boat RaceBelfast, ME$1,000112024
Harpswell Neck Physical Education AssoiciationHarpswell, ME$1,000112022
Pave CentreMiami, FL$1,000112021
South Florida PBSBoynton Beach, FL$1,000222024
Fau FoundationBoca Raton, FL$300112024
Maine Maritime MuseumBath, ME$250112024
Amnesty InternationalNew York, NY$240112024
Amnesty USANew York, NY$240112022
Maine Botanical GardensBoothbay, ME$125112024
International Surf Lifesaving EducationHuntington Beach, CA$100112024
International Surf Lifesaving AssociationHuntington Beach, CA$100112022

15 of 38 (39%) 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 35%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 27 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
14 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Human Services
3 grants
International Affairs
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$67,550$7,500
202218$90,916$2,000
202317$106,550$2,000
202416$73,687$1,013

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. 59% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$200K
New York
$49K
California
$44K
Maine
$36K
District of Columbia
$4K
Massachusetts
$2K
Washington
$2K

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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 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 Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation for Palm Beach and5 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 Florida.
  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 The Levenger Foundation Inc'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: 420 South Congress Avenue, Delray Beach, FL, 33445. 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 65-0810176 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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