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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 it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
STOCKTON GOSPEL RESCUE CENTER$100,000
MARY GRAHAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$100,000
EMERGENCY FOOD BANK$100,000
ST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICE$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+19%
+90%

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
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
    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 +19%

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 +90%
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
Amador County Senior Citizens
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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…

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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

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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.

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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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mary's Community Services; 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, 2017–2026.

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. 9 of the 18 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

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

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 Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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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