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Morgan Lewis Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$679kEducation$349kCivil Rights$307kArts & Culture$300kPublic Safety & Disaster$300kCrime & Legal$287kYouth Development$9kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $1,000,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,500,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $500,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+3 grants · $900k
$300,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$300,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$300,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$300,000
SEEDS OF PEACE$100,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ACHIEVE NOW: $11k → 22%SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $25k → 8%HEART OF LOS ANGELES: $9k → 14%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $300k → 17%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-HOUSTON: $6k → 16%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $300k → 14%EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $287k → 18%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $300k → 17%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND: $296k → 14%NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $307k → 17%THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY: $6k → 14%BAILEY HOUSE INC: $6k → 17%THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY: $6k → 14%SEEDS OF PEACE: $100k → 17%READ AHEAD: $5k → 17%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 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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
United Nations International School

Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
10
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is United Negro College Fund 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
4/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $300,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $300,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $279,415 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $100,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INCNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $307,429 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUN…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $286,703 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $296,018 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLL…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD O…+3 more: $27,789 · Education+3 moreFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNIT…HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $8,668 · Youth DevelopmentBAILEY HOUSE INC: $6,010 · HealthREAD AHEAD INC: $5,273 · Philanthropy
International$979,415Civil Rights$594,132Education$348,807Arts & Culture$300,000Youth Development$8,668Health$6,010Philanthropy$5,273

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $307,429 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $296,018 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $286,703 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $279,415 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY: $11,594 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAchieve Now: $10,612 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $8,668 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAILEY HOUSE INC: $6,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $5,583 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAD AHEAD INC: $5,273 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    How do I get to Morgan Lewis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Morgan 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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $475k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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