Tennessee · Private foundation
Lawrence Lewis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $254k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,328
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Lawrence Lewis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $229k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $144k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $130k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $304k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $64k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $168k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc | $185,000 | 4 | 0% |
| World Methodist Evangelism Inc | $112,500 | 6 | 6% |
| Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Plough Towers Fund Inc | $44,950 | 3 | 9% |
| Le Bonheur Club Inc | $36,825 | 4 | 19% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South Inc | $32,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Artsmemphis | $31,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Mid-South Food Bank | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Memphis Jewish Community Center | $19,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($349k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lawrence Lewis Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Plough Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation · Belz Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Urban Child Institute · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation · Thomas Garrott Foundation
How this is measured
About Lawrence Lewis Foundation
- How much does Lawrence Lewis Foundation give?
- Lawrence Lewis Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $254,368 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lawrence Lewis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Health (21%), Philanthropy (17%).
- Who are Lawrence Lewis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc ($185k), World Methodist Evangelism Inc ($113k), Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ($45k).
- Does Lawrence Lewis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lawrence Lewis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lawrence Lewis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc.
- Where is Lawrence Lewis Foundation based?
- Lawrence Lewis Foundation is based in TN.
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