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Bernard Lewis Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Bernard Lewis Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$31kScience & Tech$31kEducation$23kArts & Culture$21kEnvironment$20kHealth$10kSocial Science$5kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$717k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$5,000
FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLO$5,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK$2,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS HEBREW UNIVERSITY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER$1,500
CENTER FOR SCIENCE PUBLIC INTEREST$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN COMMITTEE WEIZMANN INSTITU: $3k → 10%SIMON WIESENTHAL: $3k → 14%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK: $3k → 17%THE ALAN HOUSER FOUNDATION: $32k → 12%SWAIA: $3k → 14%CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN PUBLIC INTERE: $5k → 14%CONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COAST: $3k → 9%SARASOTA BALLET: $2k → 10%CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER: $2k → 11%BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST: $3k → 15%FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATIO: $3k → 19%SIMON WIESENTHAL: $3k → 14%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK: $3k → 17%SOUTH WESTERN ASSOCIATION INDIAN AR: $3k → 12%SWAIA: $3k → 14%CENTER FOR SCIENCE PUBLIC INTEREST: $5k → 14%CONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COAST: $2k → 9%THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER: $2k → 14%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK: $3k → 17%CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN PUBLIC INTERE: $5k → 14%CONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COAST: $2k → 9%THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL MUSEUM: $3k → 14%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK: $3k → 17%CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN PUBLIC INTERE: $5k → 14%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY AQUARIUM: $5k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL MUSEUM: $3k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%CENTER FOR SCIENCE PUBLIC INTEREST: $5k → 14%MOTE MARINE: $3k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL MUSEUM: $3k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%CENTER FOR SCIENCE PUBLIC INTEREST: $5k → 14%MOTE MARINE: $3k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY AQUARIUM: $3k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%MOTE MARINE: $3k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL MUSEUM: $5k → 17%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY AQUARIUM: $2k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL MUSEUM: $3k → 17%MOTE MARINE: $2k → 9%WEIZMANN INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%SARASOTA ORCHESTRA: $2k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$138k · 13 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$138k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+36%

Still filing today

31%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +40%
  • THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +41%
  • SB
    Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ALAN HOUSER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $32k
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE WEIZMANN INSTITU
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • WF
    WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment
2
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
3
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
4
Bok Tower Gardens Inc

To inspire a better and more beautiful world by sharing edward bok's legacy.

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5
Florida State Parks Foundation Inc

Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.

Recreation & Sports
6
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
7
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
8
The Florida Aquarium Inc

The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…

Animals
9
Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful

To promote a culture of environmental stewardship through volunteer and educational opportunities.

Environment
10
The Everglades Trust Inc

To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.

—
11
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden

Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.

Environment
12
Flamingo Gardens Inc

To depict and preserve the natural and cultural heritage of south florida and the everglades in or botanical gardens and wildlife sanctuaries.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Captains for Clean Water Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Everglades Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ALAN HOUSER FOUNDATION: $31,500 · OtherTHE ALAN HOUSER FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR SCIENCE PUBLIC INTEREST: $15,500 · OtherCENTER FOR SCIENCE PUBLIC INTERESTCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN PUBLIC INTERE: $15,000 · OtherCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN PUBLIC INTEREAMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL MUSEUM: $15,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL MUSEUMFISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLO: $10,000 · OtherFISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLOIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMOTE MARINE LABORATORY AQUARIUM: $9,000 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY AQUARIUMSWAIA: $7,500 · OtherCONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COAST: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+9 more: $19,200 · Other+9 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $22,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS O…AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE…THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $1,320 · EnvironmentMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $900 · EnvironmentThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $500 · Environment+1 more: $450 · EnvironmentSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $3,500 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $250 · Arts & CultureBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $2,500 · Animals
Other$142,200International$32,500Environment$14,670Arts & Culture$5,250Animals$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $1,320 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION INC: $450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
  • Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bernard Lewis Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard Lewis Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Bernard Lewis Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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