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Paul a Lewis College Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$133k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$11,092
Largest grant, FY2025
$11,092
Organizations funded a year
12 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Paul a Lewis College Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$133k0%
FY202412$160k0%
FY202312$117k0%
FY202212$180k0%
FY202112$158k0%
FY202012$157k0%
FY201912$128k0%
FY201812$145kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Claremont McKenna College$98,12780%
Claremont Graduate University$98,12780%
Whittier College$98,12780%
University of la Verne$98,12780%
Pepperdine University$98,12780%
Scripps College$98,12780%
University of Redlands$98,12780%
Occidental College$98,12780%
La Sierra University$98,12780%
Mount Saint Mary's University$98,12780%
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All grantees of Paul a Lewis College Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Claremont McKenna College$98,12780%
Claremont Graduate University$98,12780%
Whittier College$98,12780%
University of la Verne$98,12780%
Pepperdine University$98,12780%
Scripps College$98,12780%
University of Redlands$98,12780%
Occidental College$98,12780%
La Sierra University$98,12780%
Mount Saint Mary's University$98,12780%
Loyola Marymount University$98,12780%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul a Lewis College Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClaremont McKenna College: $98,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont Graduate University: $98,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWhittier College: $98,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of la Verne: $98,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPepperdine University: $98,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetScripps College: $98,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Redlands: $98,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOccidental College: $98,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLa Sierra University: $98,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMount Saint Mary's University: $98,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola Marymount University: $98,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Paul a Lewis College Fund

How much does Paul a Lewis College Fund give?
Paul a Lewis College Fund reported 12 grants totaling $133,104 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Paul a Lewis College Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Paul a Lewis College Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Claremont McKenna College ($98k), Claremont Graduate University ($98k), Whittier College ($98k).
Does Paul a Lewis College Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul a Lewis College Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paul a Lewis College Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Paul a Lewis College Fund based?
Paul a Lewis College Fund is based in TX.

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 12 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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