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Paul a Lewis College Fund at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$11,092
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$11,092
WHITTIER COLLEGE$11,092
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY$11,092
UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS$11,092
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$11,092
CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY$11,092
UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE$11,092
MOUNT ST MARY'S COLLEGE$11,092
POINT LOMA NAZARENE COLLEGE$11,092
CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE$11,092
SCRIPPS COLLEGE$11,092
LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY$11,092
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%POINT LOMA NAZARENE COLLEGE: $15k → 11%LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $15k → 14%POINT LOMA NAZARENE COLLEGE: $13k → 11%LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $13k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $13k → 14%POINT LOMA NAZARENE COLLEGE: $13k → 11%LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $13k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $13k → 14%POINT LOMA NAZARENE COLLEGE: $13k → 11%LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $13k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $13k → 14%POINT LOMA NAZARENE COLLEGE: $12k → 11%LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY: $12k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $12k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $12k → 14%MOUNT ST MARY'S COLLEGE: $15k → 14%MOUNT ST MARY'S COLLEGE: $13k → 14%MOUNT ST MARY'S COLLEGE: $13k → 14%MOUNT ST MARY'S COLLEGE: $13k → 14%PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $15k → 14%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $13k → 14%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $13k → 14%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $13k → 14%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $15k → 14%CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE: $15k → 14%CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE: $13k → 14%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $13k → 14%CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $13k → 14%CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE: $13k → 14%CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE: $13k → 14%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $13k → 14%CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 12 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
0

Total granted

$1.2M
$0

Still filing today

92%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CM
    Claremont McKenna College
    8× · 2018–2025 · $98k · revenue +86%
  • PU
    PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $98k · revenue +45%
  • SC
    Scripps College
    8× · 2018–2025 · $98k · revenue +46%

Funded once

    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.

    04Its 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
    California Lutheran University

    The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

    Education
    2
    Pitzer College

    Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

    Education
    3
    University of Southern California

    The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

    Education
    4
    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
    5
    Lewis & Clark College

    Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

    Education
    6
    Los Angeles Pacific University

    Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

    Education
    7
    Saint Mary's College of California

    Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…

    Education
    8
    The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

    The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

    Education
    9
    President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

    Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

    Education
    10
    LaGrange College

    Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

    Education
    11
    President and Trustees of Bates College

    Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

    Education
    12
    Loyola University

    Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

    Education
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of La Verne; the most unlike its peers is Whittier College. 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

    11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    11/11
    Grantees still filing
    6/11
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    Claremont Graduate University: $98,127 · EducationClaremont Graduate UniversityWhittier College: $98,127 · EducationWhittier CollegeUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $98,127 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNEPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $98,127 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITYScripps College: $98,127 · EducationScripps CollegeUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $98,127 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDSOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $98,127 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGELa Sierra University: $98,127 · EducationLa Sierra UniversityMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY: $98,127 · EducationMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITYLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $98,127 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYClaremont McKenna College: $98,127 · OtherClaremont McKenna …POINT LOMA NAZARENE COLLEGE: $98,127 · OtherPOINT LOMA NAZAREN…
    Education$981,270Other$196,254

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

    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
    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 Claremont McKenna College ↗
    • Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
    • Who funds Whittier College ↗
    • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE ↗
    • Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds Scripps College ↗
    • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
    • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
    • Who funds La Sierra University ↗
    • Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗

    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Paul a Lewis College Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul a Lewis College Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

    2025
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
      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.

      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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