· Public charity
Lewis Family Charitable Foundation
The mission of the LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, as a supporting organization to the greater houston community foundation, is to provide financial support for charitable organizations in support of education, health, civic, and social services.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S HOME | $15,000 |
| BAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC | $12,500 |
| DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC | $12,500 |
| MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTHE WOMEN'S HOME9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +38%
- BRBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +74%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- HHomeworthyone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- CFCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +25%
- UMUNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +38%
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.
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.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
Covenant HomeCare 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 the patient's ability to pay.
Inseparable Inc is focused on creating a world where mental health is treated as a critical and equal piece of overall health, and where systems are designed with their impact on mental health in mind. Inseparable, Inc. is a growing…
Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.
Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.
Meta house ends the generational cycle of addiction by healing women and strengthening families.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
West Street Recovery's mission is to connect communities to the resources they need to rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and build resilient, secure, and stronger communities.
Anchor House provides trauma-informed residential treatment and recovery support services for men and women affected by substance use disorders. Through an integrated biopsychosocial and holistic approach, the organization restores hope,…
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds BAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FuelEd Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A 2ND CUP ↗
- Who funds Project Row Houses ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds Project Curate ↗
- Who funds SHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE ↗
- Who funds Houston's Amazing Place Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Homeworthy ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds UNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Otter Island Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lewis Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lewis Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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