Tennessee · Private foundation
Myron Lewis Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $31k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2026
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $497k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 38% of the organizations Myron Lewis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 4 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2025 | 8 | $22k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $19k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $11k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $21k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $19k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $26k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Israel | $67,330 | 7 | n/a |
| Opera Memphis Inc | $18,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Mary's Episcopal School | $14,800 | 6 | 0% |
| The Village at Germantown Inc | $9,175 | 5 | 0% |
| Margolin Hebrew Academy-Yeshiva of the South | $3,900 | 3 | n/a |
| Theatre Memphis | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Essex Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Plough Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Myron Lewis Foundation
- How much does Myron Lewis Foundation give?
- Myron Lewis Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $31,145 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does Myron Lewis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Religion (31%), Education (16%).
- Who are Myron Lewis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Temple Israel ($67k), Opera Memphis Inc ($18k), St Mary's Episcopal School ($15k).
- Does Myron Lewis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Myron Lewis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Myron Lewis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Jewish Foundation of Memphis, Plough Foundation.
- Where is Myron Lewis Foundation based?
- Myron Lewis Foundation is based in TN.
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