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Lewin Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $191k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $128,300 |
| GAYLORD HOSPITAL | $62,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $10,000 |
| PRINCETON IN AFRICA | $10,000 |
| JAMIE HULLEY ARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MARRAKECH INC | $10,000 |
| IAC | $7,500 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF ORANGE | $5,000 |
| BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN | $5,000 |
| ORANGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| QUINNIPIAC | $2,500 |
| GERMANTOWN ACADEMY | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- GHGaylord Hospital INC8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +31%
- SMST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $113k · revenue +114%
- QUQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW HAVENone grant, 2023 · $90k
- LFLANDES FUNDone grant, 2017 · $15k
- FOFISH OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue 0%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 35 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Gaylord Hospital INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARRAKECH INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON IN AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds Jamie A Hulley Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FISH OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RENEWAL INC ↗
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: United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Yale University · Seedlings Foundation · Town Fair Tire Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Lewin Family 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.
- Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
- Marrakech Inc — 14% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% 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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