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Lewis Family Charitable Trust

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
32%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$375,550
Organizations funded a year
17 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Lewis Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$963k35%
FY202325$1.3M32%
FY202219$1.4M21%
FY202119$306k21%
FY202019$109k32%
FY201917$228k35%
FY201822$62k45%
FY201721$390kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.1MCivil Rights$1.7MHuman Services$420kArts & Culture$380kHealth$103kReligion$87kEducation$60kInternational$53kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
MD
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lewis Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $320,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHolocaust Memorial Center Inc: $55,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $33,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Jcc Krakow Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPlay for Pink Inc: $17,585 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrt America Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation: $5,550 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $5,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Michigan Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents Supporting Israel: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDisabled Veterans National Foundation: $2,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $1,966 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Association Inc: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustBridge Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Parkinson Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women Michig: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZionist Organization of America: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaw Enforcement Officers Relief Fund Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Ensemble Theatre: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPink Fund Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

United Jewish FoundationMI13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Jewish Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Lewis Family Charitable Trust

How much does Lewis Family Charitable Trust give?
Lewis Family Charitable Trust reported 28 grants totaling $1,158,075 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lewis Family Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (44%), Civil Rights (24%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Lewis Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($320k), Holocaust Memorial Center Inc ($55k), University of Michigan ($50k).
Does Lewis Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lewis Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lewis Family Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Jewish Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Lewis Family Charitable Trust based?
Lewis Family Charitable Trust is based in FL.

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 70 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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