Levitetz Family Foundation Inc.

Levitetz Family Foundation Inc. is an unstaffed, family-run private foundation founded in 2011 by Jeff Levitetz, founder of Purity Wholesale Grocers, and headquartered in Boca Raton, FL. It is governed entirely by family and close advisors — Jeffery A. Levitetz (President), sons Zachary and Tyler Levitetz (Directors), Alan Rutner (VP/Secretary/Treasurer), and Daniella J. Jordan (Executive Director) — and every officer reports $0 compensation across all filed years, confirming a purely volunteer, personal-passion operation rather than a program-staffed institution. Practically all giving flows through renewed relationships: of 137 tracked grants, 101 (74%) went to Florida nonprofits, and most top recipients (Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Cleveland Clinic of Florida, Mayo Clinic, USA Wrestling, Peggy Adams Animal Rescue, and roughly 30 others listed on the site's 'Organizations' page) show a grant_count of 3, meaning they were funded in three consecutive filed years rather than as one-off gifts. The Form 990-PF states a letter (not a formal form) is the suggested — not required — submission method, with no deadline and no stated restrictions, but this is standard IRS boilerplate; the foundation has no application portal, RFP page, or grants-page URL anywhere on its own site. First-time applicants should treat this as a relationship-first, invitation-leaning funder: a warm introduction from a current grantee, board member, or the Boca Raton/Palm Beach philanthropic and medical-institution network will carry far more weight than a cold letter of inquiry. Organizations should lead with alignment to one of the foundation's five explicit pillars — education (school-building and university scholarships), medical research/hospital systems, athletics (with a demonstrated personal affinity for amateur wrestling and Olympic-development programs, evidenced by USA Wrestling and National Wrestling Hall of Fame grants), bully-breed-specific animal rescue (via its own 'Adopt a Bully' and Dolly's Dream initiatives with Humane Society of Broward County), and humanitarian aid (international school construction with Food For The Poor, having built 8 schools abroad). General-purpose, unrestricted requests match the foundation's own grant-purpose coding (100% of tracked grants are coded 'GENERAL PURPOSE'), so proposals emphasizing broad organizational support rather than narrowly restricted project budgets fit its historical pattern best.

Across the DB's tracked grant history (137 grants totaling $5,715,736, average $41,721), the foundation's own 990-PF reports a typical grant size ranging from $1,000 to $300,000 with a median of $20,000 and an average of $40,258 across 45 grants in its most recent filed year. By cause, an estimated 42% of dollars ($2.42M of the $5.66M in the top-50 recipient set) went to health systems and medical research — led by Boca Raton Regional Hospital ($900,000 across 3 years), Cleveland Clinic of Florida ($570,000), Mayo Clinic Foundation ($428,571), and Rush University Medical Center ($250,000). Animal welfare — almost entirely bully-breed and general humane-society rescue groups — accounts for roughly 14% ($821,000), spread across at least 14 separate humane societies from Broward County ($177,913) to Tampa Bay, Halifax, Vero Beach, and the Treasure Coast, reflecting a deliberately wide, non-exclusive rescue network rather than a single flagship partner. Athletics and scholarships take about 13% ($745,000), dominated by USA Wrestling ($425,000) and the Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation ($165,000), plus the U.S. Olympic Committee ($120,000) and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame ($25,000) — a clear personal-interest cluster around wrestling and Olympic development. Education draws about 8% ($441,250), including the University of Alabama Arts and Sciences ($300,000, tied to a Levitetz family collegiate connection per a 2022 University of Alabama alumni feature) and Lynn University ($100,000), a Boca Raton-based school. The remainder (roughly 22%, ~$1.29M) covers community/humanitarian causes: Ocean Reef Community ($300,000), Coral Springs Rotary Charity ($112,250), Food For The Poor ($90,200), Boca Helping Hands ($78,500), and smaller veterans and senior-services gifts (Yellow Ribbon Fund $15,000, Mae Volen Senior Center $14,406). Total annual giving has grown steadily and substantially — from $477,550 in FY2012 to a peak of $2,674,657 in FY2023 — even as total assets declined from a $7.77M high (FY2014) to $5.22M (FY2024), indicating the family is actively spending down principal rather than preserving it, likely signaling continued strong near-term grantmaking capacity.

Levitetz Family Foundation sits in a cluster of similarly-sized private family foundations, all classified under the Philanthropy & Grantmaking NTEE category with total assets near $5.2M. None of the five closest asset-matched peers in the dataset lists a public website, making Levitetz notably more transparent and discoverable than its immediate peer set — a meaningful advantage for grant seekers researching fit before reaching out.

All six foundations are asset-matched almost to the dollar (a function of how the peer set was built), but Levitetz stands out for actually publishing a mission statement, an organizations list, and a giving history — none of the five peers has a discoverable website in this dataset. For applicants, that means Levitetz is comparatively easy to research and approach relative to typical small family foundations of its size, most of which operate with zero public footprint and are reachable only via the address on their IRS filing.

The foundation's own news page has not been updated since December 19, 2023 (a feature on Susan Connor/P&H Interiors), and no 2024, 2025, or 2026 grant announcements, leadership changes, or new program launches were found in web research or on the foundation's site. The most recent IRS financial data on file is for fiscal year 2024, showing total assets of $5,218,972 (down from $5,791,596 in FY2023) and total revenue of $1,563,928 — a normal-range operating year consistent with the foundation's established giving pattern, with no indication of a wind-down, major new gift, or governance change. Leadership remains stable: Jeffery A. Levitetz continues as President, with sons Zachary and Tyler Levitetz as Directors and Alan Rutner as VP/Secretary/Treasurer — the same officer roster across all available filing years, and Daniella J. Jordan continuing as Executive Director. The foundation's flagship ongoing programs — Dolly's Dream (bully-breed adoption fee underwriting with Humane Society of Broward County) and its international school-building partnership with Food For The Poor (8 schools built to date, most recently Escuela Blas Guerrero in La Cuchilla, Honduras) — remain active and are still referenced on the current site, suggesting continuity of core initiatives even without recent public news updates. Grant seekers should not read the stale news page as reduced activity; the underlying 990-PF financials show consistent, ongoing five-figure-to-low-six-figure grantmaking through at least FY2024.

There is no formal application form, portal, deadline, or published RFP — the IRS filing states a letter is 'suggested, although not required' with 'no special material required,' and the foundation accepts applications on a rolling basis. In practice, however, roughly three-quarters of tracked grant dollars go to Florida organizations, and most top recipients have received funding in three consecutive filed years, so a first-time, geographically unconnected applicant should expect a longer path to a first gift than the loose IRS language implies. The single highest-leverage move is securing a warm introduction — through a current grantee (many are prominent Palm Beach/Broward institutions like Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Cleveland Clinic of Florida, or Boca Helping Hands), a board connection, or the Boca Raton corporate/philanthropic network tied to Jeff Levitetz's Purity Wholesale Grocers background — rather than submitting a cold letter to the general Info@LevitetzFamilyFoundation.org inbox. Proposals should explicitly map to one of the five stated pillars (education, medical research, athletics/scholarships, bully-breed animal rescue, humanitarian aid) using that exact framing from the foundation's own 'About Us' page, since the foundation's grant purpose coding is uniformly 'GENERAL PURPOSE' — meaning unrestricted operating support requests, not narrowly scoped project budgets, are the norm it funds. A common mistake would be treating this as an open, competitive RFP process; it functions more like a personal giving circle organized around family interests (wrestling and Olympic-development sports especially, given USA Wrestling and National Wrestling Hall of Fame grants) and geographic community ties (Boca Raton/Palm Beach/Broward County). Given the typical grant range of $1,000-$300,000 with a $20,000 median, first-time applicants should request a specific, modest amount ($10,000-$50,000) rather than a large ask, and should lead with organizational credibility and local/mission fit over a formal grant-writing structure, since no application form exists to standardize the pitch. Because the foundation has no visible online grant tracker, applicants should follow up by phone (800-323-6838 or 800-323-7254, both listed across sources) 60-90 days after a written letter of inquiry if no response is received.