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Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$655k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Food & Nutrition$1.3MHuman Services$756kReligion$510kHealth$452kHousing & Shelter$216kCommunity Improvement$157kArts & Culture$104kRecreation & Sports$74kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $525k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMERGENCY FOOD BANK$100,000
STOCKTON GOSPEL RESCUE CENTER$100,000
ST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICE$100,000
MARY GRAHAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$100,000
CHILDREN'S HOME OF STOCKTON$75,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF STOCKTON$50,000
Individual grant recipient$49,218
ST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$40,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY$29,467
THE VILLAGEADULT DVLP AND COMMUNITY CENTER$11,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $445k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARY GRAHAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%MARY GRAHAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $75k → 12%MARY GRAHAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $55k → 12%MARY GRAHAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%MARY GRAHAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%MARY GRAHAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%MARY GRAHAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%MARY GRAHAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%MARY GRAHAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 15 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$3.7M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+384%

Still filing today

53%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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
    EMERGENCY FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $660k · revenue +89%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $600k · revenue +828%
  • MG
    MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $445k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY ADULT ACTIVITY C
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • TV
    The VillageAdult Dvlp and Community
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
  • AL
    American Legion Karl Ross Post No 16 Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +384%

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
Amador County Senior Citizens
2
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno

Respecting the presence of God among us, we serve, advocate for and empower those in need. In carrying out the social mission of the Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Fresno, the Organization provides food, clothing, housing support,…

Human Services
3
Santa Ynez Valley Outreach Center

Social welfare & activities

Education
4
Madera Coalition of Community Justice

MCCJ provides early childhood development,childcare and youth oriented program services to children and teens from underserved and disadvantaged families. Additiontally, MCCJ provides a food program to needy familes. The programs are…

5
Jackson County Council On Aging

Provide services to local seniors to improve their quality of life and assist them in remaining in their homes

Human Services
6
Mary Magdalene Community Services Agency

The mission of Mary Magdalene Community Services Program is to increase our client's access to appropriate services so as to enhance individual and family well-being. We achieve this by direct provision of services or appropriate referrals…

Youth Development
7
Hill Country Community Clinic

Hill country is a place where integrated medical, dental, and mental health services are available to everyone,regardless of ability to pay. see sch o for additional info.

Health
8
South Royalton Senior Center

Provides meals and services to senior citizens of the comunity and surrounding towns

9
Meals On Wheels-Santa Maria Valley Inc

Deliver meals and provide informal health and welfare visits to disabled and elderly clients in the Santa Maria Valley.

10
Family Promise of San Joaquin County

To help reduce homelessness and support low income families in san joaquin county to achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.

Human Services
11
Volunteer Center of San Gabriel Valley

Provide referrals for court mandated community service. offer meal delivery for home bound individuals.

Philanthropy
12
Care for the Children

Our mission is to provide homebound older adults with low income with nutritious food box delivery. Additionally, our food distribution program provides food to all in the communities we serve who need a helping hand. Our programs aim to…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mary's Community Services and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Karl Ross Post No 16 Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EMERGENCY FOOD BANK — $660,398 · OtherEMERGENCY FOOD BANKSTOCKTON GOSPEL RESCUE CENTER — $450,000 · OtherSTOCKTON GOSPEL RESCUE CENTERST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $311,000 · OtherST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $246,992 · OtherIndividual grant recipientChildren's Home of Stockton Inc — $235,000 · OtherChildren's Home of Stockton IncSTOCKTON HOMELESS SHELTER — $216,000 · OtherSTOCKTON HOMELESS SHELTERST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI — $100,000 · Other+5 more — $146,385 · Other+5 moreST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICES — $600,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S COMMUNIT…MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION — $445,000 · Human ServicesMARY GRAHAM C…JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY — $156,631 · Community ImprovementCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF STOCKTON — $104,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VILLAGE ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER COMMUNITY CENTER — $73,770 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $30,200 · Health
Other$2,365,775Food & Nutrition$600,000Human Services$445,000Community Improvement$156,631Arts & Culture$104,000Recreation & Sports$73,770Health$30,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEMERGENCY FOOD BANK — $660,398 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICES — $600,000 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetMARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION — $445,000 over 9y, 25% of budgetChildren's Home of Stockton Inc — $235,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY — $156,631 over 9y, 54% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF STOCKTON — $104,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTHE VILLAGE ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER COMMUNITY CENTER — $73,770 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $30,200 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetAmerican Legion Karl Ross Post No 16 Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% 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.

  • Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD BANK
  • Who funds ST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • Who funds MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Children's Home of Stockton Inc
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF STOCKTON
  • Who funds THE VILLAGE ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER COMMUNITY CENTER
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
  • Who funds American Legion Karl Ross Post No 16 Inc

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.

The Cortopassi Family FoundationCA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cortopassi Family Foundation · Crete Family Foundation · Rosi Cerri Foundation Inc · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · The Foster Family Charitable Foundation · San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc · The 54 Fund · Dutch Bros Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Mildred Luck Lewis 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%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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