· Private foundation
Lawrence Lewis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $204k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare | $35,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH | $32,000 |
| Memphis Jewish Federation | $25,000 |
| Jewish Family Services | $25,000 |
| Plough Towers Fund Inc | $22,450 |
| Metropolitan Inter-faith Association | $10,000 |
| FEDEX FAMILY HOUSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| World Methodist Evangelism Inc | $7,500 |
| Germantown Performing Arts Center | $6,000 |
| LITERACY MID-SOUTH | $5,500 |
| Arts Memphis | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc | $3,328 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 12 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- MLMethodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $185k · revenue +40%
- WMWORLD METHODIST EVANGELISM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $113k · revenue +5%
- LBLE BONHEUR CLUB INC4× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- LBLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Fndationone grant, 2022 · $35k
- CCFGMone grant, 2020 · $30k
- MFMJCC FBO JEWISH FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $25k
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 foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…
The mission is to create memorable learning experiences through the joy of play, in hands-on exhibits and programs. we accomplish this mission by reaching out to the mid-south school children, families, and the tourist visitor.
The foundation accepts, manages, and disburses private support to the university of memphis.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mifa Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 51 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 Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD METHODIST EVANGELISM INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
- Who funds PLOUGH TOWERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds LE BONHEUR CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNKNOWN CHILD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Lawrence 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.