New Jersey · Private foundation
Lewis Lyons Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $34k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $371
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Lewis Lyons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $34k | 59% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $49k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $55k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $35k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $10k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $21k | 79% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $4k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Relief Agency Inc | $32,232 | 5 | 3% |
| Community Security Service | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| W House Inc | $6,750 | 2 | 2% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Society of Overseas Research | $3,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Colel Chabad | $2,502 | 4 | n/a |
| Cong Gemach Bnei Pinchos | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Daily Giving Inc | $1,528 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Women International | $1,031 | 1 | 0% |
| Sharsheret Inc | $1,030 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Relief Agency Inc | $32,232 | 5 | 3% |
| Community Security Service | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| W House Inc | $6,750 | 2 | 2% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Society of Overseas Research | $3,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Colel Chabad | $2,502 | 4 | n/a |
| Cong Gemach Bnei Pinchos | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Daily Giving Inc | $1,528 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Women International | $1,031 | 1 | 0% |
| Sharsheret Inc | $1,030 | 1 | 0% |
| Ezrat Israel Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eagles Autism Challenge Inc | $540 | 1 | 0% |
| Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Catskills Hatzalah Inc | $371 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Hebrew University Inc | $360 | 1 | 0% |
| Gumley Chesed | $360 | 1 | n/a |
| Kemp Mill Synagogue Inc | $306 | 1 | n/a |
| The Israel Forever Foundation | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Tomchei Shabbos D'Lakewood Inc | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| Amit Children Inc | $77 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($139k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lewis Lyons Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Fjc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lewis Lyons Foundation
- How much does Lewis Lyons Foundation give?
- Lewis Lyons Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $34,056 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Lewis Lyons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Public Safety & Disaster (22%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
- Who are Lewis Lyons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Jewish Relief Agency Inc ($32k), Community Security Service ($10k), W House Inc ($7k).
- Does Lewis Lyons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lewis Lyons Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lewis Lyons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, Fjc.
- Where is Lewis Lyons Foundation based?
- Lewis Lyons Foundation is based in NJ.
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