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George T Lewisjr 2001 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $200,000 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| LOWCOUNTY FOOD BANK | $105,000 |
| WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $100,000 |
| BROOKSTONE SCHOOLS OF MECKLENBURG C | $80,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $75,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| HOPE FOR THE WARRIORS | $75,000 |
| NOURISH UP | $75,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $65,000 |
| V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $60,000 |
| HOLY ANGELS | $55,000 |
| YMCA CENTRAL CAROLINAS | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $396k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +99%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +106%- LFLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $507k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- SHSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN - Gone grant, 2019 · $200k
- ECETERNAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $100k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2019 · $85k
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.
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
To feed people by soliciting and distributing food and other products through partner agencies and educating the community about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Hunger free america (hfa) is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization building the movement to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all americans have sufficient access to nutritious food.
Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Founded in 1886, thompson child & family focus is called to strengthen children, families, and communitiesdelivering measurable outcomes through healing, teaching, worship, and play. for more than a century, thompson has transformed lives…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.
To provide food assistance through a network of partners, while educating and engaging our communities in the elimination of hunger and its causes.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brookes Haven Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 51 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds HIRE HEROES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds The Western Youth Network Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Council for Childrens Rights Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM GUY FORBECK RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nourish Up ↗
- Who funds Eagle Rock Camp ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEA HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES 4 CHANGE ↗
- Who funds WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 George T Lewisjr 2001 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.
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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