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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 FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$376k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% 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
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $637k
  • $250k+1 grant · $376k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$375,550
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT$170,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MU$170,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM$146,625
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$25,000
FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
LIVE EAGLE ORANZ STAT AMERICAN JET$20,500
ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER$10,000
ST JUDE HOSPITAL$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN$5,350
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RELIEF FUN: $250 → 9%BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $800 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $750 → 11%BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $750 → 11%TRUSTBRIDGE: $600 → 11%BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $750 → 11%BOCA WEST FOUNDATION: $650 → 11%BOCA WEST FOUNDATION: $650 → 11%BOCA WEST FOUNDATION: $600 → 11%BOCA WEST FOUNDATION: $600 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
MD
TN
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 26 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
33

Total granted

$4.5M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+52%

Still filing today

50%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalReligionEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    2× · 2023–2024 · $320k · revenue +3%
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +74%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Michigangraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +202%
  • AD
    AMERICAN DIABETES
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
4
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
5
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
6
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
7
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
12
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Students Supporting Israel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
27/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,692,230 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEIndividual grant recipient: $1,000,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM: $773,399 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALMBROWN DAY CARE CENTER: $409,030 · OtherBROWN DAY CARE CENTER+53 more: $338,968 · Other+53 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $2,334,745 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROITThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $320,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $55,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,966 · Arts & CultureJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $45,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,350 · InternationalSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL: $2,500 · International+1 more: $100 · InternationalUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $30,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $33,950 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $25,000 · Religion+1 more: $360 · Religion
Other$4,214,377Philanthropy$2,334,745Arts & Culture$377,216International$52,950Education$40,000Civil Rights$33,950Religion$25,360

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $2,334,745 over 8y, 1.3% of 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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds URBAN COMMUNICATIONS GROUP ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.

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

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lewis Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lewis Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • TrustBridge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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