Colorado · Private foundation
Richard H Lewis Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $695k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2024
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 69
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Richard H Lewis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 57 | $689k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $642k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $528k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $559k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $546k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $573k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $541k | 43% |
| FY2017 | 61 | $595k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church | $694,000 | 8 | n/a |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $286,050 | 8 | 0% |
| Young Life | $264,150 | 7 | 0% |
| Colorado Uplift Inc | $239,750 | 8 | 1% |
| Colorado Christian University | $204,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Elevate USA | $140,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Promise Keepers | $107,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Dare to Share | $95,000 | 7 | 85% |
| Urban Youth Ministries | $85,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Dillon Community Church | $85,000 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Richard H Lewis Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Tyl Foundation · Lewan Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Berglund Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Eugene C and Florence Armstrong Family Foundation Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation
How this is measured
About Richard H Lewis Family Foundation
- How much does Richard H Lewis Family Foundation give?
- Richard H Lewis Family Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $694,690 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 69 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Richard H Lewis Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Youth Development (19%), Education (18%).
- Who are Richard H Lewis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church ($694k), University of Colorado Foundation ($286k), Young Life ($264k).
- Does Richard H Lewis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard H Lewis Family Foundation 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 Richard H Lewis Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Richard H Lewis Family Foundation based?
- Richard H Lewis Family Foundation is based in CO.
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