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Good Old Lew 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 2025 HARVEST HOME BENEFIT GALA | $20,000 |
| AMBITION ANGELS | $15,000 |
| AUDUBON SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BEAUTIFUL DAY FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| BRENTWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PRESCHOOL | $7,500 |
| CHILDRENS TUMOR FOUNDATION - MARLOS MARATHON | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| CENTER OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $5,000 |
| CANCER COUCH FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PALM DESERT | $3,000 |
| CURTIS SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CONGREGATION SHIR HADASH | $2,500 |
| CONCERTS IN MOTION | $2,500 |
| DRH HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,073 |
| EDESIA | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER4× · 2017–2020 · $106k · revenue +63%- SJSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +100%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART3× · 2022–2024 · $51k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- FAFAIRBURN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $25k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $11k
- FOFRIENDS OF GOLF INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +127%
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Santa Clara County Library District Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 123 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 CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMBITION ANGELS ↗
- Who funds DUNN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CANCER COUCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GOLF INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
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: Rsm Family Foundation Formly Known as the Sally Skirball Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment 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 Good Old Lew 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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