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Lewis Family Trust

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.

$677k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$85,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$11M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Lewis Family Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther
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
FY2025still arriving25$617k8%
FY202424$580k38%
FY202323$543k13%
FY202224$565k13%
FY202121$526k5%
FY202020$490k0%
FY201922$506k9%
FY201822$545k9%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$1.1MHealth$1.0MPhilanthropy$1.0MHuman Services$781kEducation$630kReligion$478kSocial Science$350kArts & Culture$243kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Lewis Family Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$692,00090%
American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ$589,50090%
Morselife Foundation Inc$385,80071%
Israel Healthcare Foundation Inc$200,00091%
Chai Lifeline Inc$190,00090%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$150,00090%
Daughters of Miriam Center$136,00070%
Dorot Inc$85,00090%
Rutgers Hillel Corporation$85,00091%
Birthright Israel Foundation$63,50070%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$40,00040%
American Friends of Migdal OHR$40,00020%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$30,00040%
Sharsheret Inc$25,00011%
Yavneh Academy & Talmud Torah of Paterson$20,0001n/a
New York City Center Inc$17,50020%
Foundcare Inc$15,00020%
The Frisch School$10,00010%
Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel$10,0001n/a
Yeshivat Heatid Inc$10,00010%
American Friends of Shalva Israel Inc$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $692,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $589,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMorselife Foundation Inc: $385,800 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetIsrael Healthcare Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $190,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $150,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDaughters of Miriam Center: $136,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDorot Inc: $85,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRutgers Hillel Corporation: $85,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $63,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNew York City Center Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundcare Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frisch School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYeshivat Heatid Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Shalva Israel Inc: $2,500 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 19.

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.

Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey IncNJ17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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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How do I get to Lewis Family Trust?

Find your warmest path to Lewis Family Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Lewis Family Trust

How much does Lewis Family Trust give?
Lewis Family Trust reported 27 grants totaling $677,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lewis Family Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (18%), Health (18%), Philanthropy (17%).
Who are Lewis Family Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Friends of Hebrew University Inc ($692k), American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ($590k), Morselife Foundation Inc ($386k).
Does Lewis Family Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lewis Family 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 Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc, Fjc, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is Lewis Family Trust based?
Lewis Family 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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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