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David S & Norma R Lewis Foundation at a glance

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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.

$352k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.6MEducation$2.1MEnvironment$877kHuman Services$785kHealth$575kRecreation & Sports$490kArts & Culture$334kHousing & Shelter$232kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $132k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
STARR KING SCHOOL FOR MINISTRY$20,000
FRIENDS OF CHILDREN W SPECIAL$20,000
YOUTH ON THEIR OWN$20,000
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF SA$20,000
BOOKS FOR CLASSROOMS$15,000
GROWTH PARTNERS ARIZONA$10,000
TUCSON EDU EMPOWERMENT FOR$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $160k → 15%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $80k → 15%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $80k → 15%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $55k → 15%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 15%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 15%EMERGE CNTR AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $25k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $30k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $25k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $25k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $20k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $20k → 15%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 18 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
2

Total granted

$5.7M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+69%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • TB
    TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $577k · revenue +219%
  • DC
    DUNBAR COALITION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $490k · revenue +92% · 29% of their budget
  • TJ
    TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $450k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • TJ
    TUCSONS JANUARY 8TH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -100%
  • TC
    TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +69%
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
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
—
3
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
4
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Arizona Theatre Company

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Social Venture Partners Tucson

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…

Philanthropy
7
Tucson Values Teachers

To elevate the teaching profession in southern arizona by empowering and celebrating prek-12 teacher excellence through community engagement and investment.

Employment
8
Impact of Southern Arizona

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.

Community Improvement
9
Tucson Symphony Society

The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.

Arts & Culture
10
Grand Canyon Conservancy

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…

Environment
11
Cala Alliance

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Tucson Investigative Reporting Center Inc

The Tucson Investigative Reporting Center educates and informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges & unique culture of our borderlands through independent local journalism.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southern Arizona; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $2,531,785 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN AR…EL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · PhilanthropySTARR KING SCHOOL FOR THE MINISTRY: $2,065,000 · OtherSTARR KING SCHOOL FOR THE MINISTRYInterfaith Community Services: $190,000 · OtherInterfaith Community ServicesThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $232,000 · OtherThe Primavera Foundation IncGROWTH PARTNERS ARIZONA: $120,000 · OtherThe Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona: $100,000 · Other+3 more: $175,000 · Other+3 moreTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $577,100 · EnvironmentTUCSON BOTA…TOHONO CHUL PARK INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentTOHONO CHUL…TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesTUCSON JEW…INTERMOUNTAIN CENTERS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $145,000 · Human ServicesINTERMOUNT…YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $120,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH ON T…TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $25,000 · Human ServicesDUNBAR COALITION INC: $489,956 · Recreation & SportsThe Rogue Theatre: $163,000 · Arts & CultureSCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE INC: $115,750 · Arts & CultureBARBEA WILLIAMS PERFORMING COMPANY INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Children with Special Needs: $290,000 · Health
Philanthropy$2,671,785Other$2,882,000Environment$877,100Human Services$740,000Recreation & Sports$489,956Arts & Culture$333,750Health$290,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $2,531,785 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $577,100 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetDUNBAR COALITION INC: $489,956 over 6y, 29% of budgetTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $450,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTOHONO CHUL PARK INC: $300,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetFriends of Children with Special Needs: $290,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $232,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $190,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Rogue Theatre: $163,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN CENTERS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $145,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $120,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGROWTH PARTNERS ARIZONA: $120,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetSCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE INC: $115,750 over 3y, 18% of budgetThe Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona: $100,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTucson Educational Empowerment for Minorities Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 76% of budgetBooks for Classrooms: $75,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetBARBEA WILLIAMS PERFORMING COMPANY INC: $55,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetTUCSONS JANUARY 8TH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Jewish Community Foun…Arizona Community Fou…The Womens Foundation…Connie Hillman Family…The Hs Lopez Family F…Zuckerman Community O…The Kai Family Founda…Marshall FoundationThe David and Lura Lo…The Intuit FoundationThe Chicago Community…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ40.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David S & Norma R Lewis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David S & Norma R Lewis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to David S & Norma R Lewis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David S & Norma R Lewis 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 21 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 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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