Pennsylvania · Public charity
Morgan Lewis Foundation
The MORGAN LEWIS FOUNDATION is organized and operated for charitable and educational purposes, including making scholarships to deserving college and law school students and grants to other qualified charitable organizations.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Morgan Lewis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $1.0M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $12k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $36k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $1.2M | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $307,429 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $296,018 | 1 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $286,703 | 1 | 0% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $279,415 | 1 | 0% |
| Seeds of Peace Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Thurgood Marshall Academy | $11,594 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $307,429 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $296,018 | 1 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $286,703 | 1 | 0% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $279,415 | 1 | 0% |
| Seeds of Peace Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Thurgood Marshall Academy | $11,594 | 2 | 0% |
| Achieve Now | $10,612 | 1 | 2% |
| Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc | $8,668 | 1 | 0% |
| Bailey House Inc | $6,010 | 1 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools of Houston Inc | $5,583 | 1 | 0% |
| Read Ahead Inc | $5,273 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morgan Lewis Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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
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About Morgan Lewis Foundation
- How much does Morgan Lewis Foundation give?
- Morgan Lewis Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $1,000,000, out of $1,500,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Morgan Lewis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (30%), Education (16%), Civil Rights (14%).
- Who are Morgan Lewis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc ($307k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($300k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($300k).
- Does Morgan Lewis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Morgan Lewis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Morgan Lewis Foundation based?
- Morgan Lewis Foundation is based in PA.
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