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Hunter Lewis 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
- Under $10k18 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $458k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Nutrition Association | $458,000 |
| Project Horseshoe Farm | $109,505 |
| American Friends of Georgia | $20,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Charlottesville | $15,000 |
| National Vaccine Information Center | $15,000 |
| UWA Cahaba Biodiversity Center | $11,000 |
| American School of Classical StudiesAthens | $10,000 |
| The Childrens Initiative | $10,000 |
| Real Organic Project | $10,000 |
| Childrens Health Defense | $8,000 |
| Tuesday Evening Concert Series | $8,000 |
| Informed Consent Action Network | $7,000 |
| Browntone Institute | $5,000 |
| Focused Ultrasound Foundation | $5,000 |
| Covenant House New York | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +82% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 21 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- PHPROJECT HORSESHOE FARM4× · 2019–2024 · $755k · revenue +380% · 68% of their budget
- ROReal Organic Project Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +44%
- HAHUMAN AGE REVERSAL PROJECT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- CMCarnegie Mellon Universitygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +27%
- CSCharlottesville Social Servicesone grant, 2021 · $20k
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
Health effects institute's mission is to conduct independent research to provide high-quality, impartial and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. this is done by identifying the highest priority areas for health effect…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To protect and advance a climate for our members to responsibly create and market science-based dietary supplements, functional food, and their ingredients, for better human health and nutrition.
The fuels institute/transportation energy institute will deliver comprehensive and balanced research and analysis concerning fuels, vehicles, and related policy issues in order to create a market in which consumers can safely,…
The center for science in the public interest is america's food and health watchdog. cspi envisions a healthy population with reduced impact and burden of preventable diseases and an equitable food system that makes healthy, sustainable…
Prim&r advances the highest ethical standards in the conduct of biomedical, behavioral and social science research. prim&r accomplishes this mission through education, membership services, professional certification, public policy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Defense and the most unlike its peers is The Children's Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 31 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 PROJECT HORSESHOE FARM ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds PEACHTREE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Real Organic Project Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY EVENING CONCERT SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN AGE REVERSAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds TAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CROZET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Hunter Lewis 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Real Organic Project Inc — 1% 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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