· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $146k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $359k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY | $100,000 |
| CHERRY CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $90,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $49,000 |
| COLORADO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| DARE TO SHARE | $35,000 |
| ACTION YOUTH | $32,000 |
| URBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| ELEVATE USA | $20,000 |
| COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,640 |
| OJAI YOUTH ENTERTAINMENT STUDIO | $15,000 |
| ACE SCHOLARSHIPS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FAITH IN PRACTICE | $10,000 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $286k · revenue +79%
- YLYOUNG LIFE7× · 2017–2023 · $264k · revenue +59%
- CUCOLORADO UPLIFT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TTERRASETgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +259%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- WMWWII MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Hungry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone Foundation 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
74 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. 74 of the 161 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE USA ↗
- Who funds PROMISE KEEPERS ↗
- Who funds DARE TO SHARE ↗
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MAD AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE IN OUR CITY ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds A VOICE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
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.
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
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 Richard H Lewis Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.