· Public charity
David S & Norma R Lewis Foundation
The organization shall distribute funds to or for the community foundation for southern arizona to further the community foundation's charitable activities that promote health and wellness, on a local and national level, and foster creative, and artistic endeavors that positively impact the human experience.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $132k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUNBAR COALITION INC | $82,456 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR S ARIZONA | $50,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $40,000 |
| EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| PRIMAVERA FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF SA | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHILDREN W SPECIAL | $20,000 |
| STARR KING SCHOOL FOR MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $20,000 |
| BOOKS FOR CLASSROOMS | $15,000 |
| GROWTH PARTNERS ARIZONA | $10,000 |
| TUCSON EDU EMPOWERMENT FOR | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $595k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TBTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS7× · 2017–2023 · $577k · revenue +219%
- DCDUNBAR COALITION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $490k · revenue +92% · 29% of their budget
- TJTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2018–2023 · $450k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- TJTUCSONS JANUARY 8TH MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -100%
- TCTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +69%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.
ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.
Svp tucson is an ever expanding community of engaged philanthropists dedicated to building the capacity, strength and impact of nonprofits in addressing social problems. we accomplish this through: thoughtful and strategic investments and…
To elevate the teaching profession in southern arizona by empowering and celebrating prek-12 teacher excellence through community engagement and investment.
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.
As the official philanthropic and collaborative partner of the grand canyon national park, grand canyon conservancy's mission is to inspire generations of park champions to cherish and support the natural and cultural wonder of the grand…
CelebracinArtstica de lasAmricas(CALA)Alliancecollaborates with artists and arts organizations to nurture artistic talent, focusing onartistsfrom the Latin American diaspora.Through innovative artist residencies, commissions, community…
The Tucson Investigative Reporting Center educates and informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges & unique culture of our borderlands through independent local journalism.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southern Arizona and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Children with Special Needs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds DUNBAR COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOHONO CHUL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Children with Special Needs ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds The Rogue Theatre ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN CENTERS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds GROWTH PARTNERS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds SCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona ↗
- Who funds Books for Classrooms ↗
- Who funds Tucson Educational Empowerment for Minorities Inc ↗
- Who funds BARBEA WILLIAMS PERFORMING COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds TUCSONS JANUARY 8TH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Zuckerman Community Outreach Foundation · The Kai Family Foundation · Marshall Foundation · The David and Lura Lovell · The Intuit Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David S & Norma R Lewis Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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