California · Private foundation
Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation
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.
- $29k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $637k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $28k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $30k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $36k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $33k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $27k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $30k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Library Foundation of Los Angeles | $24,145 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Hudson School | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tower Cancer Research Foundation | $6,979 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Hospital | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Vistamar School | $4,418 | 2 | 0% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northeastern University | $3,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Breastcancerorg | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Gentle Barn Foundation | $2,562 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($114k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation
- How much does Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation give?
- Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $29,230 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Health (21%), Animals (6%).
- Who are Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Library Foundation of Los Angeles ($24k), Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($9k), The Hudson School ($8k).
- Does Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation 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 Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation based?
- Ed & Mary Lewis Foundation is based in CA.
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