· Private foundation
Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $170k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THEATRE JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FBO JOSEPH BESANT | $10,000 |
| ART MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN FBO ELIZABETH NULL | $9,000 |
| ART COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO FBO SEVERN SIMS | $8,000 |
| ART VIRGINIA TECH FBO ANNA KOUBEK | $8,000 |
| DANCE SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY FBO LYNDSI GOOD | $7,000 |
| DANCE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH FBO ANNA COX | $7,000 |
| MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTTHEATRE CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY FBO ANNALISE | $7,000 |
| THEATRE INTERLOCHEN ARTS CAMP FBO GLENNES WARE | $5,074 |
| DANCE WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY FBO ALEXIA PARKER | $5,000 |
| ORGANIZATIONS SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ORGANIZATIONS MUSEUM OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY | $5,000 |
| THEATRE JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FBO SADIE WATTERWORTH | $5,000 |
| ORGANIZATIONS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL OF WINCHESTER | $5,000 |
| ART UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FBO ROSEMARY CAVALIER | $5,000 |
| DANCE RADFORD UNIVERSITY FBO LIANA MCDONALD | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of your 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.
59 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
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
- BOBARNS OF ROSE HILL4× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +21%
- SVSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +20%
- ALARTE LIBRE VA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- TJTHEATRE JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FBO GENESIS WILSONone grant, 2021 · $9k
- TBTHEATRE BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $8k
- DSDANCE SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET FBO KLOE WALKERone grant, 2022 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
4 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. 4 of the 130 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts 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.
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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