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Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$142k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2025
35
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,939
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,908
Organizations funded a year
33 to 35
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving35$138k0%
FY202435$129k0%
FY202335$140k0%
FY202235$154k0%
FY202135$143k0%
FY202035$143k0%
FY201935$144k29%
FY201833$136kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$861kRecreation & Sports$124kAnimals$105kScience & Tech$31kEducation$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
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MI
NY
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VA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Conservation Corps$48,41280%
Friends of Windom Wetland District Inc$48,4128n/a
Fox Lake Conservation League Inc$48,41084%
The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc$41,49580%
North Country Trail Association Incorporated$41,49580%
Common Field Incorporated$41,4958n/a
Finger Lakes Trail Conference Inc$41,49482%
Ithaca Childrens Garden Inc$41,49281%
Conservation International Foundation$32,27680%
African Wildlife Foundation Inc$32,27580%
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Conservation Corps$48,41280%
Friends of Windom Wetland District Inc$48,4128n/a
Fox Lake Conservation League Inc$48,41084%
The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc$41,49580%
North Country Trail Association Incorporated$41,49580%
Common Field Incorporated$41,4958n/a
Finger Lakes Trail Conference Inc$41,49482%
Ithaca Childrens Garden Inc$41,49281%
Conservation International Foundation$32,27680%
African Wildlife Foundation Inc$32,27580%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$32,27580%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$32,27580%
Rainforest Alliance Inc$32,27480%
The Trust for Public Land$32,27280%
Earthjustice$28,31570%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$28,31370%
The Wilderness Society$20,74880%
The Student Conservation Association Inc$20,74880%
National Parks Conservation Association$20,74880%
Greater Hells Canyon Council$20,74881%
Save the Redwoods League$20,74880%
National Park Trust Inc$20,74880%
Alaska Wilderness League$20,74880%
Hartley Nature Center$20,74880%
National Park Foundation$20,74880%
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance$20,74880%
Rails to Trails Conservancy$18,20270%
Martin County Conservation Club Inc.$5,94112%
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation$2,54610%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($290k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConservation Corps: $48,412 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFox Lake Conservation League Inc: $48,410 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $41,495 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Country Trail Association Incorporated: $41,495 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFinger Lakes Trail Conference Inc: $41,494 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetIthaca Childrens Garden Inc: $41,492 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetConservation International Foundation: $32,276 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Foundation Inc: $32,275 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $32,275 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $32,275 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Alliance Inc: $32,274 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $32,272 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $28,315 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $28,313 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $20,748 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Student Conservation Association Inc: $20,748 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $20,748 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Hells Canyon Council: $20,748 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSave the Redwoods League: $20,748 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Trust Inc: $20,748 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAlaska Wilderness League: $20,748 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHartley Nature Center: $20,748 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $20,748 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $20,748 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRails to Trails Conservancy: $18,202 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMartin County Conservation Club Inc.: $5,941 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMinnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation: $2,546 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…Ibm International Fou…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT12.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust

How much does Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust give?
Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust reported 36 grants totaling $141,787 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (74%), Recreation & Sports (11%), Animals (9%).
Who are Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Conservation Corps ($48k), Friends of Windom Wetland District Inc ($48k), Fox Lake Conservation League Inc ($48k).
Does Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, Ibm International Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust based?
Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust is based in WI.

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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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