· Private foundation
Lewis 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 $10k6 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| JEWISH RECONSTRUCTION SOCIETY OF THE NOR | $3,590 |
| WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FL | $2,500 |
| THE PORTLEDGE FUND | $1,300 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FLORIDA WEST COAST SYMPHONY | $300 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +19%
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +101%- ISINLY SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +42%
Funded once
WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +43%- TATHE ALS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
- RSRECONSTRUCTIONIST SYNAGOGUE NORTH Sone grant, 2022 · $4k
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 harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
The ringling is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, entertains, and honors the legacy of john & mable ringling.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
The Mission of the Sarasota Ballet of Florida is to enrich lives, captivate emotions and strengthen the community through the art of dance.
The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Friendship Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sarasota Manatee Assoc for Riding Therapy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 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. 53 of the 99 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 SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds INLY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds TOWER FOUNDATION OF MANHASSET INC ↗
- Who funds Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds SNEAKERS FOR SOLDIERS INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds SINGING CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TINY HANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY INC ↗
- Who funds TOYS FOR TOTS INC ↗
- Who funds DERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY 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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Morton J and Bernice W Skirboll Family Foundation · Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc · Delmar and Audria M Olson Family Foundation · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · Boscia Family Foundation · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc
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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Osterville Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Inly School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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.