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Guy and Shirley Lewis Foundation Ltd at a glance

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Guy and Shirley Lewis Foundation Ltd

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.

$425k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$30k
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.

Arts & Culture$219kHuman Services$197kInternational$175kCrime & Legal$133kFood & Nutrition$105kEducation$98kCivil Rights$95kYouth Development$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $369k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULSA CASA INC$30,000
OKLAHOMA INSTITUTE FOR CHILD ADVOCACY$20,000
DALLAS CASA$20,000
NEW HOPE OKLAHOMA INC$20,000
HARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH INC$15,000
NATIVE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE INC$15,000
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID INC$15,000
TULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INC$12,500
THE SURAYYA ANNE FOUNDATION$12,500
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC$12,500
UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC$12,500
STREET SCHOOL INC$12,500
MIDDLE EAST CHILDRENS ALLIANCE$12,500
UNITED HANDS RELIEF INC$12,500
THE REBUILDING ALLIANCE$12,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $13k → 17%JOHN 3 16 MISSION: $10k → 14%ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $10k → 27%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $13k → 17%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%JOHN 3 16 MISSION: $10k → 14%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $15k → 17%SERVICE WOMENS ACTION NETWORK: $10k → 14%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $10k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $8k → 15%THE SURAYYA ANNE FOUNDATION: $13k → 15%THE SURAYYA ANNE FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $5k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $5k → 15%GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC: $15k → 15%GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC: $8k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NV
SD
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$956k · 35 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
21

Total granted

$956k
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+42%

Still filing today

91%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • TULSA CASA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +27%
  • NEW HOPE OKLAHOMA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +6%
  • HARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • UW
    UP WITH TREES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +27%
  • CITIZENS CARING FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +34%
  • TB
    THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +42%
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
Young Womens Christian Association of Oklahoma Ci

Ywca oklahoma city is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all

Human Services
2
La Luz Organization Inc

La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.

Human Services
3
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

—
4
Casa of Southern Oklahoma Inc

Solicit, train & direct activities of court-appointed volunteer advocates for children in cases involving child abuse and neglect. assist in direct expense needs of individual children in court-appointed cases.

Civil Rights
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
Oklahoma Casa Association Inc

To provide a statewide voice for children by enhancing & sustaining the growth of local casa programs which provide trained community volunteers to represent the best interests of abused & neglected children.

Human Services
7
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

—
8
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
9
Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network

In Tulsa County there are several agencies that address prevention and treatment of child abuse, but the Child Advocacy Network (CAN) is the ONLY nonprofit that provides intervention services for children and their nonoffending…

Crime & Legal
10
United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc

United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.

Philanthropy
11
Casa of Southwest Oklahoma Inc

Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children

Crime & Legal
12
Family Crisis Center Inc

The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Palestinian Appeal Inc; the most unlike its peers is Texas Jazz Society Inc. 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

61 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. 61 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
36/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Roots of Music Inc: $39,000 · Arts & CultureRoots of Music…TULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA GIRLS AR…GREENWOOD RISING INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWOOD RISI…Barthelmes Conservatory Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBarthelmes Con…Texas Jazz Society Inc: $17,000 · Arts & CultureTexas Jazz Soc…OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMANS FOR…EQUITY ARC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureEQUITY ARCJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN…GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesGREENWOOD CULT…SURAYYA ANNE FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesSURAYYA ANNE F…JOHN 316 MISSION: $20,000 · Human ServicesJOHN 316 MISSI…Emergency Infant Services Inc: $17,500 · Human ServicesEmergency Infa…THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALL…DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDRE…LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLIFE SENIOR SE…SERVICE WOMENS ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 · Human ServicesSERVICE WOMENS…ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesATHENS COMMUNI…FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · OtherUP WITH TREES INC: $25,000 · OtherBLACK WALL STREET ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $22,500 · OtherCITIZENS CARING FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 · OtherHARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH INC: $40,000 · OtherHARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH INCMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc: $35,000 · OtherMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa IncOklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy: $50,000 · OtherOklahoma Institute for Child AdvocacyWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $37,000 · OtherWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Projec…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherIRON GATE INC: $30,000 · OtherIRON GATE INCHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $23,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $20,000 · Other+16 more: $169,000 · Other+16 moreAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR…United Hands Relief Inc: $22,500 · InternationalUnited Hands …UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC: $22,500 · InternationalUNITED PALEST…MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $22,500 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST C…WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $22,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOM…THE REBUILDING ALLIANCE: $12,500 · InternationalTHE REBUILDIN…ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $10,000 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIE…PALESTINIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · InternationalPALESTINIAN A…+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalTULSA CASA INC: $65,000 · Civil RightsTULSA CAS…DALLAS CASA: $20,000 · Civil RightsDALLAS CA…MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $13,000 · Civil RightsMIDWEST A…TREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PR…NATIVE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $45,000 · EducationNATIVE AL…STREET SCHOOL INC: $35,000 · EducationSTREET SC…SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $12,500 · EducationSPONSORS …NATIONAL WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS CORPORATION: $7,000 · EducationNATIONAL …FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationNEW HOPE OKLAHOMA INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentGlobal Gardens Incorporated: $10,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$169,000Human Services$163,000Other$518,500International$152,000Civil Rights$108,000Education$104,500Youth Development$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTULSA CASA INC: $65,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetNEW HOPE OKLAHOMA INC: $65,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetOklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy: $50,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNATIVE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH INC: $40,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetRoots of Music Inc: $39,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $37,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSTREET SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIRON GATE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUP WITH TREES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD RISING INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC: $23,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSURAYYA ANNE FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetUnited Hands Relief Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $22,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBarthelmes Conservatory Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCITIZENS CARING FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CASA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Jazz Society Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetOKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC: $17,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REBUILDING ALLIANCE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetExtra Special People Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALMER CONTINUUM OF CARE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALESTINIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Gardens Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEQUITY ARC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSERVICE WOMENS ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

George Kaiser Family …The Anne and Henry Za…Tulsa Community Found…The Gelvin FoundationSanford P & Irene F B…Zarrow Families Found…Maxine and Jack Zarro…Charles and Lynn Schu…Coretz Family Foundat…The Sharna and Irvin …Oneok Foundation IncSarkeys Foundation
George Kaiser Family FoundationOK42× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Zarrow Families Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Coretz Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation

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 Guy and Shirley Lewis Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Guy and Shirley Lewis Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Up With Trees Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Native Alliance Against Violence Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Global Gardens Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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How do I get to Guy and Shirley Lewis Foundation Ltd?

Find your warmest path to Guy and Shirley Lewis Foundation Ltd 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 66 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-PF 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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