· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CENTER OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| CANCER COUCH FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PALM DESERT | $3,000 |
| CURTIS SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CONCERTS IN MOTION | $2,500 |
| CONGREGATION SHIR HADASH | $2,500 |
| DRH HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,073 |
| EDESIA | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- USUNIVERSITY SYNAGOGUEone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
52 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. 52 of the 123 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Good Old Lew Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Good Old Lew Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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