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M David Lewis MD Family 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.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

International$71kRecreation & Sports$50kEducation$20kAnimals$10kReligion$9kYouth Development$3kHealth$2kPhilanthropy$1k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $62k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN$22,100
WILLIE & COY PAYNE JR HIGH$10,006
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC$10,000
TLOMA GIVING$10,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$10,000
WAVESIDE CHURCH$5,000
GRASSROOT SOCCER INC$5,000
OPERATION SMILE INC$1,200
ANGELS AT RISK$1,000
WILLIE & COY PAYNE JR HIGH$222
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FALLEN ANGEL PROJECT: $1k → 11%WILLIE & COY PAYNE JR HIGH: $10k → 11%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $10k → 10%ANGELS AT RISK: $1k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $10k → 21%TLOMA GIVING: $10k → 12%OPERATION SMILE INC: $1k → 10%EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $22k → 5%GRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $5k → 10%AZ YOUTHWORKS INC: $284 → 11%WILLIE & COY PAYNE JR HIGH: $222 → 11%WAVESIDE CHURCH: $5k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $2k → 21%EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $15k → 5%ARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 11%WAVESIDE CHURCH: $3k → 14%EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $13k → 5%HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALLTOUCHDOWN CLUB: $24k → 11%WAVESIDE CHURCH: $1k → 14%EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $9k → 5%HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALLTOUCHDOWN CLUB: $16k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$119k · 4 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$119k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+87%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsInternationalReligionYouth DevelopmentEducationAnimalsOther

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

  • EF
    EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $59k · revenue +30%
  • HH
    HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOUCHDOWN CLUB
    2× · 2021–2023 · $39k · revenue -21%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • AI
    ARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +87%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +18%
  • FA
    FALLEN ANGEL PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
West Africa Leadership and Youth Ministries

Ministry to evangelize children and train pastors in west africa

Human Services
2
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

3
Seeds of Change Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Impact Water Foundation

To make safe drinking water available to as many students as possible through scalable and lasting solutions, ensuring every student can learn and thrive with safe water. see schedule o.

Human Services
5
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
6
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
7
Dazzle Africa

Dazzle africa's mission is to partner with local organizations to provide programs in conservation, education and community development. the organization aims to ensure that future generations are self-sufficient and iconic african…

Animals
8
Best in the World Teachers
Education
9
Arizona Educational Foundation Inc

To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.

10
Tri-State Christian Academy Inc

Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…

Education
11
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education
12
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Highland High School Football Touchdown Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN — $58,852 · InternationalEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN+1 more — $1,200 · InternationalHIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOUCHDOWN CLUB — $39,389 · Recreation & SportsHIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOUC…ARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC — $5,417 · Recreation & SportsARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATIO…GRASSROOT SOCCER INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsGRASSROOT SOCCER INCWILLIE & COY PAYNE JR HIGH — $10,228 · OtherWILLIE & COY …WAVESIDE CHURCH — $8,500 · OtherWAVESIDE CHUR…FALLEN ANGEL PROJECT — $1,000 · Other+1 more — $284 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $12,000 · ReligionTloma Giving — $10,000 · EducationWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $10,000 · AnimalsYOUNG LIFE — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentANGELS AT RISK — $1,000 · Health
International$60,052Recreation & Sports$49,806Other$20,012Religion$12,000Education$10,000Animals$10,000Youth Development$3,000Health$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN — $58,852 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOUCHDOWN CLUB — $39,389 over 2y, 16% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTloma Giving — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC — $5,417 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS AT RISK — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 M David Lewis MD Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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