· Private foundation
Lewis Family Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $5,760 |
| GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,100 |
| UW FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN | $3,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D WISCONSIN | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| WAUNAKEE NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION | $1,000 |
| BUCKETS FOR HUNGER | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $500 |
| UNICEF USA | $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, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +70% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IAIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +113%
- OCONE CITY SCHOOLS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue ×14
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%
- WAWAUNAKEE AREA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
- MFMERITER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +33%
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.
Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
Unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Waunakee Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Waunakee Neighborhood Connection ↗
- Who funds BUCKETS FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MERITER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALY WOLFF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON WEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds NEWBRIDGE MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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: The Evjue Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Rotary Foundation · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Cummings-Christensen Family Foundation · Hooper Corp Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lewis Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lewis Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
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