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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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$110kArts & Culture$68kHuman Services$16kPhilanthropy$11kFood & Nutrition$11kReligion$9kHealth$9kAnimals$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,300
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $50 → 6%TIDEWELL HOSPICE: $100 → 9%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CO
VA
MD
NC
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 36 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
62

Total granted

$215k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+9%

Still filing today

69%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SC
    SKIDMORE COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +19%
  • FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +101%
  • IS
    INLY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +43%
  • TA
    THE ALS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • RS
    RECONSTRUCTIONIST SYNAGOGUE NORTH S
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

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…

Environment
2
The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota Inc

To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.

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3
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation Incorporated

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Lowell Observatory

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…

Science & Tech
6
New York University

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.

Education
7
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Bard College

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.

Education
9
Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc

The Mission of the Sarasota Ballet of Florida is to enrich lives, captivate emotions and strengthen the community through the art of dance.

Arts & Culture
10
South Florida Symphony Orchestra Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
11
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
12
University of Southern California

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Friendship Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 99 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
33/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FL: $39,900 · OtherWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLJEWISH RECONSTRUCTION SOCIETY OF THE NOR: $32,076 · OtherJEWISH RECONSTRUCTION SOCIETY OF THE NORINLY SCHOOL INC: $10,500 · OtherINLY SCHOOL INCOPERATION KINDNESS FLORIDA INC: $9,450 · OtherOPERATION KINDNESS FLORIDA INCTHE UNITED WAY: $7,100 · OtherRINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $6,600 · OtherTOWER FOUNDATION OF MANHASSET INC: $5,668 · Other+68 more: $51,663 · Other+68 moreSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $49,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGERINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $2,040 · Education+7 more: $5,195 · Education+7 moreFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $13,450 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA STU…WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureWESTCOAST B…Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: $4,400 · Arts & CultureFlorida Wes…+5 more: $1,725 · Arts & Culture+5 moreALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $7,100 · Food & NutritionSNEAKERS FOR SOLDIERS INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TINY HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND: $4,200 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $50 · Crime & LegalSIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC: $800 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society: $420 · Animals
Other$162,957Education$56,235Arts & Culture$25,575Food & Nutrition$7,100Philanthropy$5,500Crime & Legal$4,250Animals$1,220

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $49,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $13,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS FLORIDA INC: $9,450 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $7,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $6,600 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOWER FOUNDATION OF MANHASSET INC: $5,668 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: $4,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND: $4,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSNEAKERS FOR SOLDIERS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $2,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TINY HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSINGING CITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEHEALTH MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOYS FOR TOTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetSIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC: $800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Manhasset School Community Association Inc: $520 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Manatee Assoc for Riding Therapy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $420 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NASSAU COUNTY INC: $340 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOSTERVILLE FREE LIBRARY CORPORATION: $325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOSTERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST HEALTH SARASOTA INC: $200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOASTAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMM FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 THE TINY HANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SINGING CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPEHEALTH MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds TOYS FOR TOTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds DERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY INC ↗
  • Who funds SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY 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.

The Community Foundat…Gulf Coast Community …Manatee Community Fou…Roberta Leventhal Sud…Amica Companies Found…Morton J and Bernice …Norman E Peterson and…Delmar and Audria M O…The Arthur S Karp Fam…Boscia Family Foundat…The Louis and Gloria …William G and Marie S…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL29.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lewis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 99 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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