· Private foundation
Myron Lewis Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $7,275 |
| ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| VILLAGE OF GERMANTOWN | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS | $2,870 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–26, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 29% of Myron Lewis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 67%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OMOPERA MEMPHIS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $18k · revenue +31%
- SMST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL6× · 2020–2026 · $15k · revenue +27%
- TVTHE VILLAGE AT GERMANTOWN INC5× · 2022–2026 · $9k · revenue +19%
Funded once
Indiana University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +34%- CCBHSone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CBCHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2025 · $2k
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.
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.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
To work in partnership with the shelby county school district and the achievement school district on strategies that support school improvement, development, and implementation of initiatives focused on increasing k-12 educational outcomes…
The foundation accepts, manages, and disburses private support to the university of memphis.
Opera birmingham is committed to creating the finest professional opera productions, developing talent through competition and exposure to major artists, and promoting the operatic art form through community-wide education and outreach.
To enrich the lives of our diverse community through exceptional music and dynamic programs.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Medaille university concentrates on excellence in teaching, with an emphasis on personal attention to its diverse student body. its curriculum provides a solid liberal arts and sciences foundation with early access to career-oriented…
The mission of the jewish foundation of memphis is to encourage charitable giving, support partner agency endowment development and to build and sustain a virbant jewish community.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
See Disclosure Above.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE AT GERMANTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX FOUNDATION 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Myron Lewis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Myron Lewis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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