· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEARCH MINISTRIES INC | $1,100,000 |
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| ELEVATE ETHIOPIA INC | $10,000 |
| RETT'S ROOST | $10,000 |
| BRAD ECHOLS FAMILY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AUKERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +59% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DCDAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC4× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +71%
- GMGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC5× · 2017–2024 · $525k · revenue +59%
- NRNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFE - CAROLINA POINTone grant, 2017 · $750k
- ICIMMANUEL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $250k
- SMSHILOH MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Provide ministry and counseling to troubled marriages and individuals with addictions - ongoing consultations with approximately 400 individuals and families on a biweekly basis.
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
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.
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.
Everett gospel mission engages with the community to alleviate poverty.
Serving others' needs by providing christian lodging and support to cancer patients and their caregivers.
Refresh host encourage mentor those in ministry
Residential home and outreach program for women coming out of abuse, addiction, or unthinkable circumstances
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.
Awake ministries' mission is to holistically equip individuals with the hope and help that they need for abundant living.
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 provide a biblical path for people to deal with their past, develop their character, and deepen their relationship with god.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 25 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 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 RETT'S ROOST ↗
- Who funds BRAD ECHOLS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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