· Private foundation
Lewis Lyons Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION AABJ&D | $9,976 |
| JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY | $4,600 |
| JKHARKYHS | $3,780 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,700 |
| UPPER DUBLIN HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $515 |
| DAILY GIVING | $384 |
| CATSKILLS HATZALAH | $371 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIV | $360 |
| SWAN LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $360 |
| GUMLEY CHESED | $360 |
| THE ISRAEL FOREVER FOUNDATION | $200 |
| ZMANIM | $180 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAKOTE | $180 |
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, 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 +162% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 10 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JRJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +162%
- WHW HOUSE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +19%
- DGDAILY GIVING INC4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- CSCommunity Security Serviceone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -41%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -51%
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF OVERSEAS RESEARCHone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -18%
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.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 49 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 JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Security Service ↗
- Who funds W HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF OVERSEAS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds DAILY GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Women International ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds CATSKILLS HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL FOREVER FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lewis Lyons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lewis Lyons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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