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Lewis House 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,500 |
| JONNYCAKE CENTER | $2,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $2,000 |
| UN HIGH COMMAND FOR REFUGEES | $2,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $2,000 |
| NARROW RIVER LAND TRUST | $1,500 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $1,000 |
| SUDAN RELIEF FUND | $1,000 |
| ANGEL FUND | $1,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME | $1,000 |
| MARTHA'S TABLE | $500 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $500 |
| THE AFRICA EXCHANGE PROJECT | $500 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $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 (FY22–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +13%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +36%- AFANGEL FUND INC3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- WAWORKING AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +73%
- ARANIMINAL RESCUE RHODE ISLANDone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Woonsocket Cat Sanctuary Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 84 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 THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Narrow River Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICA EXCHANGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds HELP OF OJAI INC ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds IN-SIGHT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
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 Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · The Schein Family Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 House 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.
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