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M David Lewis MD Family Foundation at a glance

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M David Lewis MD Family 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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

International$71kRecreation & Sports$50kEducation$20kAnimals$10kReligion$9kYouth Development$3kHealth$2kPhilanthropy$1k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN$21,595
HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALLTOUCHDOWN CLUB$18,713
WAVESIDE CHURCH$8,217
VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$5,000
CURE THE CAUSE$5,000
SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION$3,500
HEALTHCARE FOR HOMELESS ANIMALS$1,000
ANGELS AT RISK$1,000
TLOMA GIVING$992
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FALLEN ANGEL PROJECT: $1k → 11%WILLIE & COY PAYNE JR HIGH: $10k → 11%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $10k → 10%VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4k → 16%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%ANGELS AT RISK: $1k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $2k → 21%TLOMA GIVING: $992 → 12%EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $22k → 5%ARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 11%ANGELS AT RISK: $1k → 14%EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $15k → 5%HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALLTOUCHDOWN CLUB: $24k → 11%WAVESIDE CHURCH: $8k → 14%EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $13k → 5%HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALLTOUCHDOWN CLUB: $19k → 11%CURE THE CAUSE: $5k → 14%EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $9k → 5%HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALLTOUCHDOWN CLUB: $16k → 11%WAVESIDE CHURCH: $5k → 14%WAVESIDE CHURCH: $3k → 14%WAVESIDE CHURCH: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$180k · 6 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$180k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+18%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationInternationalAnimalsReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    5× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +30%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +40%
  • TG
    Tloma Giving
    2× · 2024–2025 · $11k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • WC
    WILLIE & COY PAYNE JR HIGH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • WC
    WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +52%
  • AI
    ARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +87%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Arizona Educational Foundation Inc

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

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2
Western Athletic Conference

The conference is committed to providing student-athletes an exemplary university experience - both on and off the field of play. with high standards of integrity at the core of our athletic and academic excellences, our goal is to unlock…

Recreation & Sports
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
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
5
The Winsor School

Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
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…

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9
College Match

College match partners with high schools in los angeles county to identify high-achieving, low-income high school students and provide them with the necessary tools and guidance to get into top-ranked colleges with significant financial…

Education
10
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
11
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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12
Oaks Christian School

The school's mission is: to dedicate ourselves to christ in the pursuit of academic excellence, artistic expression, and athletic distinction while growing in knowledge and wisdom through god's abundant grace.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroot Soccer Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $80,447 · InternationalEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN+1 more: $1,200 · InternationalHIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOUCHDOWN CLUB: $58,102 · Recreation & SportsHIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TO…ARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $5,417 · Recreation & SportsARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIAT…GRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsGRASSROOT SOCCER INCWAVESIDE CHURCH: $16,717 · OtherWAVESIDE CHURCHWILLIE & COY PAYNE JR HIGH: $10,228 · OtherWILLIE & COY PAYNE…CURE THE CAUSE: $5,000 · OtherCURE THE CAUSEVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherVIEWPOINT EDUCATIO…+2 more: $1,284 · OtherTloma Giving: $10,992 · EducationTloma Giv…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,500 · EducationSPRING BR…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $12,000 · ReligionWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $10,000 · AnimalsHEALTHCARE FOR HOMELESS ANIMALS: $1,000 · AnimalsYOUNG LIFE: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentANGELS AT RISK: $2,000 · Health
International$81,647Recreation & Sports$68,519Other$38,229Education$19,492Religion$12,000Animals$11,000Youth Development$3,000Health$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $80,447 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOUCHDOWN CLUB: $58,102 over 3y, 16% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTloma Giving: $10,992 over 2y, 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 budgetVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS AT RISK: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization M David Lewis MD Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M David Lewis MD Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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