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Phoebe R & John D Lewis Foundation

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.

$949k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$1.9MEnvironment$1.2MArts & Culture$771kPhilanthropy$633kFood & Nutrition$495kAnimals$320kYouth Development$258kHousing & Shelter$227kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $580k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $332k
$20,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM$150,000
MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$82,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$50,000
BRUCE'S LEGACY$50,000
CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS$30,000
SOUTHERN WISCONSIN BIRD ALLIANCE$30,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$25,000
SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION$25,000
PINEY WOODS SCHOOL$25,000
HOOVER INSTITUTE$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION$25,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE$25,000
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE$25,000
MEALS ON WHEELS NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS$25,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%ATTIC ANGEL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $5k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $5k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $5k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $3k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $3k → 8%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $30k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $30k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $20k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $20k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $20k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $20k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $20k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Phoebe R & John D Lewis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Phoebe R & John D Lewis Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 59 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
15

Total granted

$5.9M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+66%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $732k · revenue +27%
  • PW
    Piney Woods School
    9× · 2017–2025 · $683k · revenue +22%
  • NO
    NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $452k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • C
    COLGATE
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +113%
  • TM
    Thurgood Marshall College Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
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
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
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
5
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

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

Education
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bruces Legacy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsLocal History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…Immigrant Worker SupportChristian Youth CampsPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Development CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Community Food PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%13%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%28%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,503

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
48/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Piney Woods School — $682,842 · EducationPiney Woods SchoolSUFFIELD ACADEMY — $177,750 · EducationSUFFIELD ACADEMYTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL — $147,750 · EducationTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A …NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $140,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $130,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO…BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC — $89,500 · EducationCONCORD ACADEMY — $67,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $60,000 · Education+7 more — $183,000 · Education+7 moreMEALS ON WHEELS NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS — $475,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS NORTHEASTERN ILLINO…NELSON INST FOR ENV STUDIES — $120,000 · OtherNELSON INST FOR ENV STUDIESHOOVER INSTITUTE — $105,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $90,383 · OtherMORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY — $85,000 · OtherU OF CHICAGO-DEPT OF RADIOLOGY — $80,000 · OtherCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC — $100,000 · OtherREFUGEEONE — $102,500 · OtherMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $100,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $79,000 · Other+36 more — $808,000 · Other+36 moreNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL — $451,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTDOOR LE…SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $185,000 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S MEADOW FO…SOUTHERN WISCONSIN BIRD ALLIANCE INC — $169,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN WISCONSIN …CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC — $160,235 · EnvironmentCLEAN LAKES ALLIANC…GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $82,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDSWELL CONSERV…+5 more — $120,000 · Environment+5 moreMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC — $731,586 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VIN…MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $611,382 · PhilanthropyMADISON CO…+2 more — $22,000 · PhilanthropyONE CITY SCHOOLS INC — $170,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $27,500 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $23,000 · Human ServicesThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children — $20,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $178,500 · Housing & Shelter
Education$1,678,342Other$2,144,883Environment$1,167,735Arts & Culture$766,586Philanthropy$633,382Human Services$245,500Housing & Shelter$178,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC — $731,586 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetPiney Woods School — $682,842 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $611,382 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL — $451,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $178,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY — $177,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS INC — $170,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTHERN WISCONSIN BIRD ALLIANCE INC — $169,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC — $160,235 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL — $147,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE — $102,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $90,383 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC — $89,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $82,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $79,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY — $67,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION — $61,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $49,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT AND RESOURCE CENTER INC — $42,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE CHICAGO NORTH SHORE — $38,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetROCKFORD FAMILY PLANNING FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $34,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC — $32,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY — $27,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMMONOOSUC CONSERVATION TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children — $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC — $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS AT HOME — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PRAIRIE ENTHUSIASTs INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
  • Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN WISCONSIN BIRD ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC ↗
  • Who funds BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds COPPER CANNON CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Bruces Legacy Inc ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT AND RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE CHICAGO NORTH SHORE ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD FAMILY PLANNING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Chicago Community…Alliant Energy Founda…Madison Gas and Elect…Sandy Oaks Foundation…Madison Community Fou…Boston Foundation IncThe Ayco Charitable F…Natural Resources Fou…Schlecht Family Found…Endres Manufacturing …Trustage Foundation I…United Way of Dane Co…
The Chicago Community TrustIL21.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves · Madison Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natural Resources Foundation Of · Schlecht Family Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Phoebe R & John D Lewis Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Phoebe R & John D Lewis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Phoebe R & John D 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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