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Lewis Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TMCC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VACAVILLE SOLANO SERVICES CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| SAFEQUEST SOLANO | $5,000 |
| INLAND EMPIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,270 |
| CHINO HILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RIVERSIDE COUNTY WORKS | $1,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| MORENO VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RIVERS & LANDS CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| CHINO COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $1,000 |
| MARCH FIELD FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Lewis Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +457% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- SASan Antonio Hospital Foundation Inc4× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +1%
- CSCENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT6× · 2019–2024 · $3k
- FUFONTANA UNIFIED6× · 2019–2024 · $3k
Funded once
- SASAN ANTONIO HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $500
- LALEGACY ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $500
- RCRANCHO CUCAMONGA LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
We develop resources and make friends to help Victor Valley College serve our community.
To inspire, encourage and to facilitate charitable giving for lasting impact on those who live in the san fernando valley and santa clarita valley
The Mission of the Foundation is to promote the general welfare of Solano Community College and its programs and services through soliciting, raising, and distributing funds to assist and support the College in fulfilling its role of…
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
To support charitable programs in the community, in other states and countries
Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…
To promote a business friendly environment and to enhance the quality of life and the economy of rancho cucamonga
The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…
Increasing investments to strengthen and grow the local conservation corps movement.
The mission of the anaheim community foundation is to strengthen the city of anaheim through people, partnerships, and pride.
To inspire and steward generosity to foster vibrant, inclusive, and healthy communities throughout mendocino county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc Riverside Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sustainable Claremont. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 21 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 TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SafeQuest Solano Inc ↗
- Who funds VACAVILLE SOLANO SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Claremont ↗
- Who funds THE CHINO HILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORENO VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rivers & Lands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHINO COMMUNITY CHILDRENS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MARCH FIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CUCAMONGA COMMUNITY & ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION 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: California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lewis 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 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.
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