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Richard H Lewis Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$2.1MYouth Development$909kEducation$863kHuman Services$274kInternational$217kEnvironment$94kFood & Nutrition$82kPhilanthropy$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $146k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $359k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
$6,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ACE SCHOLARSHIPS$15,000
OJAI YOUTH ENTERTAINMENT STUDIO$15,000
Individual grant recipient$12,500
LIVE IT LEARN IT$10,000
THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL$10,000
A PRECIOUS CHILD$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $10k → 5%HIS LITTLE FEET: $1k → 9%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $10k → 5%HIS LITTLE FEET: $1k → 9%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $10k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $10k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $10k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $10k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $3k → 5%WARREN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $3k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $2k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $1k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
MN
IL
MI
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
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GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 93 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
54

Total granted

$4.5M
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+24%

Still filing today

52%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionInternationalHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $286k · revenue +79%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $264k · revenue +59%
  • CU
    COLORADO UPLIFT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • T
    TERRASETgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +259%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • WM
    WWII MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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5
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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6
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
7
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
8
Summit Ministries Inc

Summit ministries is an educational christian ministry with the purpose of equipping tomorrow's servant leaders to analyze competing worldviews and champion the christian faith, inspiring each one to love god with all his heart, soul,…

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9
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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10
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
11
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
12
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Hungry Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
58/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY: $819,535 · OtherCOMMUNITY BIBLE STUDYCHERRY CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $694,000 · OtherCHERRY CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHACTION YOUTH: $137,000 · Other+117 more: $1,044,031 · Other+117 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $286,050 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO F…COLORADO UPLIFT INC: $239,750 · EducationCOLORADO UPLIFT INCColorado Christian University: $204,500 · EducationColorado Christian Unive…ELEVATE USA: $140,000 · EducationELEVATE USAALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $70,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN E…+8 more: $95,022 · Education+8 moreYOUNG LIFE: $264,150 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES: $85,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROMISE KEEPERS: $107,500 · ReligionEast-West Ministries International: $42,500 · ReligionJosiah Venture: $29,500 · ReligionBETTER LIFE MINISTRIES: $15,000 · ReligionKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $11,500 · ReligionPROJECT 1 27: $10,500 · Religion+6 more: $8,000 · ReligionDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $80,000 · Human ServicesHOPE IN OUR CITY: $65,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $62,500 · Human Services+3 more: $10,500 · Human ServicesDARE TO SHARE: $95,000 · Arts & CultureThe Spark: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMAD AGRICULTURE: $70,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD SHARE INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,694,566Education$1,035,322Youth Development$356,150Religion$224,500Human Services$218,000Arts & Culture$103,500Food & Nutrition$80,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $286,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $264,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $239,750 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetColorado Christian University: $204,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATE USA: $140,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetPROMISE KEEPERS: $107,500 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetDARE TO SHARE: $95,000 over 7y, 85% of budgetURBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES: $85,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $70,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAD AGRICULTURE: $70,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE IN OUR CITY: $65,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $62,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEast-West Ministries International: $42,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION: $31,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJosiah Venture: $29,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE: $27,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetA VOICE FOR CHILDREN: $26,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetTHE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC: $22,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSAVE OUR YOUTH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA: $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $16,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetBETTER LIFE MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTERRASET: $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $11,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT 1 27: $10,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $10,022 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLive It Learn It: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Program of the Rockies: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD SHARE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERMILION SEA INSTITUTE: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Spark: $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBECAUSE OF HOPE: $5,750 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetKanakuk Ministries: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREADING VILLAGE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 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 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 THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds MAD AGRICULTURE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationTyl FoundationLewan Family Foundati…Rose Community Founda…Berglund Family Found…Mile High United Way …The Anschutz Foundati…Community Foundation …The Eugene C and Flor…The Colorado Health F…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO33.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Richard H Lewis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard H Lewis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report 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
    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 161 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home