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Jonathan D and Mark C Lewis Foundation Inc at a glance

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Jonathan D and Mark C Lewis Foundation Inc

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.

$9.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$2.7M
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.

Food & Nutrition$8.0MArts & Culture$6.8MYouth Development$4.6MHealth$4.1MHuman Services$3.1MPhilanthropy$1.3MCivil Rights$1.1MCommunity Improvement$1.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $420k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+9 grants · $7.4M
$25,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$168M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FARMS WORK WONDERS CORPORATION$2,700,000
HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC$1,200,000
THE SOCIAL EQUITY THROUGH EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC$954,970
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$500,000
LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC$500,000
ENGAGE FLORIDA CIVIC FUND INC$500,000
ARTS FOR LEARNING MIAMI INC$462,000
YOUTH ACTION FUND INC$300,000
FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC$250,000
ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES$226,667
ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING$200,000
THE MANAGEMENT CENTER$200,000
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$174,075
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WEST VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC$135,000
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$125,261
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 (FY17–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $540k → 17%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1.2M → 13%EMBRACE OF CELEBRATION INC: $5k → 13%Wish for Wheels Inc: $2k → 8%Ohio Sled Hockey Inc: $1k → 15%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $500k → 17%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50k → 13%LESBIAN & GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $150k → 17%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $50k → 17%LESBIAN & GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $25k → 17%The Gathering Place: $8k → 17%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $353k → 13%COCONUT GROVE CARES INC: $5k → 15%THE GATHERING PLACE: $3k → 17%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $10k → 17%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100k → 13%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50k → 13%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30k → 13%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 13%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $1k → 17%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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
AZ
NC
DC
HI
LA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 52 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
53

Total granted

$29M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+9%

Still filing today

90%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FW
    Farms Work Wonders Corporation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +407% · 88% of their budget
  • OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +91%
  • AF
    ARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAMI INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +36% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +21%
  • SU
    SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +98%
  • LH
    LITTLE HILL FOUNDATION FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ALCOHOLICS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · 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
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
2
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
3
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
10
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learningmiami Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United Jewish Cemeteries. 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

111 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. 111 of the 128 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/111
Grantees still filing
70/111
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Farms Work Wonders Corporation: $11,870,139 · Food & NutritionFarms Work Wonders Corporation+3 more: $312,500 · Food & NutritionOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,414,702 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE U…ARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAMI INC: $2,568,500 · EducationARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAMI IN…THE MANAGEMENT CENTER: $1,015,000 · EducationTHE MANAGEMENT CENTER+7 more: $621,480 · Education+7 moreSOCIAL EQUITY THROUGH EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $1,954,970 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL EQUITY…New Museum of Contemporary Art: $1,060,000 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of…THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN …AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WEST V: $270,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CIVI…+16 more: $356,900 · Arts & Culture+16 moreHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,807,500 · Human ServicesHOPE COMMU…Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc: $1,276,000 · Human ServicesLesbian an…TIDES CENTER: $175,000 · Human Services+5 more: $23,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $525,000 · Civil RightsENGAGE FLORIDA CIVIC FUND INC: $500,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $450,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA YOUTH ACTION FUND INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $250,000 · Civil RightsWV CANT WAIT MUTUAL AID A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $83,000 · Civil RightsPRISM FL INC: $75,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $40,000 · Civil RightsASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $892,640 · PhilanthropyTHE SAPLING FOUNDATION: $166,668 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $36,400 · PhilanthropyASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $705,000 · Environment+4 more: $69,930 · EnvironmentFIREBIRD COMMUNITY ARTS: $200,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherLITTLE HILL FOUNDATION FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ALCOHOLICS INC: $250,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $207,151 · OtherALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $510,000 · OtherSAVE THE CHIMPS INC: $177,577 · OtherZEBRA YOUTH INC: $120,000 · OtherROARING FORK MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION - RFMBA: $100,000 · Other+59 more: $833,863 · Other
Food & Nutrition$12,182,639Education$7,619,682Arts & Culture$4,141,870Human Services$3,281,500Civil Rights$2,223,000Philanthropy$1,145,708Environment$774,930Other$2,498,591

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFarms Work Wonders Corporation: $11,870,139 over 8y, 88% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,414,702 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAMI INC: $2,568,500 over 8y, 26% of budgetSOCIAL EQUITY THROUGH EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $1,954,970 over 2y, 98% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,807,500 over 2y, 33% of budgetLesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc: $1,276,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $1,060,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE MANAGEMENT CENTER: $1,015,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $892,640 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $705,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $525,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $510,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetENGAGE FLORIDA CIVIC FUND INC: $500,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $450,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFLORIDA YOUTH ACTION FUND INC: $300,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WEST V: $270,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $250,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetLITTLE HILL FOUNDATION FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ALCOHOLICS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $207,151 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFIREBIRD COMMUNITY ARTS: $200,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC: $177,577 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $175,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZEBRA YOUTH INC: $120,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetPROJECT YESINC: $112,600 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetROARING FORK MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION - RFMBA: $100,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetUNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEnglish in Action: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $83,880 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWV CANT WAIT MUTUAL AID A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $83,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetPRISM FL INC: $75,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetBEHAVIORAL HEALTH INNOVATORS INC: $65,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetGROUNDWORKS DANCE THEATER: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetASPEN SANTA FE BALLET: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROW OHIO VALLEY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $46,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE GENERATIONS INC: $32,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCULTURESEED INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% 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.

Aspen Community Found…The Batchelor Foundat…Jewish Federation of …Arches FoundationAspen Business Center…Colorado Gives Founda…Assurant FoundationVyuha IncThe Thrift ShopThe Kirk FoundationLeslie L Alexander Fo…The Ford Foundation
Aspen Community FoundationCO36× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Arches Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Vyuha Inc · The Thrift Shop · The Kirk Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Ford 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 Jonathan D and Mark C Lewis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jonathan D and Mark C Lewis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Barry University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hope Community Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Children's Golf Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to Jonathan D and Mark C Lewis Foundation Inc 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 128 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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