· Private foundation
Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $179k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THEATRE JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FB | $10,000 |
| ART 2 MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESI | $9,000 |
| MUSIC ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC FBO CH | $9,000 |
| THEATRE CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERS | $7,000 |
| DANCE 2 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH FBO ANNA | $7,000 |
| DANCE 2 SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY FBO L | $7,000 |
| DANCE 2 WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY FBO | $5,000 |
| DANCE 2 SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY FBO A | $5,000 |
| DANCE 2 RADFORD UNIVERSITY FBO LIAN | $5,000 |
| ORGANIZATIONS SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THEATRE VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH FBO S | $5,000 |
| ART 2 JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FBO | $5,000 |
| THEATRE CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERS | $5,000 |
| ORGANIZATIONS MUSEUM OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY | $5,000 |
| DANCE 2 POINT PARK UNIVERSITY FBO C | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
60 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BOBARNS OF ROSE HILL5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +21%
- SVSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +20%
- ALARTE LIBRE VA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- TJTHEATRE JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FBO JOSEPH BESANTone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TJTHEATRE JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FBO GENESIS WILSONone grant, 2021 · $9k
- TBTHEATRE BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 164 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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