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Lewis Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEARCH MINISTRIES INC | $1,100,000 |
| BRENTWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - NATIONAL | $1,000,000 |
| DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES | $500,000 |
| IMMANUEL CHURCH | $250,000 |
| GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| ELEVATE ETHIOPIA INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| HELPING ONE GUY INC | $15,000 |
| BRAD ECHOLS FAMILY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RETT'S ROOST | $10,000 |
| AUKERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $525k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +59% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k 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
- DCDAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC4× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +71%
- GMGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC5× · 2017–2024 · $525k · revenue +59%
- NRNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFE - CAROLINA POINTone grant, 2017 · $750k
- SMSHILOH MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- TGTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +2% · 42% of their budget
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.
Provide ministry and counseling to troubled marriages and individuals with addictions - ongoing consultations with approximately 400 individuals and families on a biweekly basis.
Faith home provides faith-based alcohol and drug addiction programs in greenwood, spartanburg, and abbeville. we are the largest christian recovery program in the southeast with a 135 resident bed capacity.
To minister the good news of christianity to individuals caught in the crisis of hopelessness, poverty or chemical addictions by meeting their spiritual, physical, emotional, social, and vocational needs.
Serving others' needs by providing christian lodging and support to cancer patients and their caregivers.
Provide a safe residential addiction recovery center for men who seek an alternative to addictive behaviors and destructive life choices.
Northeast treatment centers, inc.'s (net) compassionate care and commitment to community engagement helps individuals and families heal, recover, and rebuild their lives.see schedule o for details.
Edge venture is a christian mens experience that helps men understand and accept who jesus has called them to be by identifying and facing their brokenness and receiving healing.
Seeks to glorify god by providing a ministry of genuine biblical counseling free of charge to anyone desiring to be helped by the powerful word of god.
Provide assistance for women and men in drug addiction and assist individuals in crisis and homelessness.
The anchor house serves single moms in need of a loving and supportive community. the anchor house is a transitional housing shelter that provides support and assistance to single mothers to help develop appropriate skills to recover from…
We are a gospel-centered organization providing supportive connections, safe housing, and restorative services for women and families, empowering them to gain stability and ultimately live independently.
The family broadcasts the hope of jesus christ to strengthen and encourage listeners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rett's Roost and the most unlike its peers is Aukerman Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 25 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 DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE ETHIOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds BRAD ECHOLS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RETT'S ROOST ↗
- Who funds WAVES OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING ONE GUY INC ↗
- Who funds AUKERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT 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 Middle Tennessee Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 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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