Florida · Private foundation
Steve & Amy Louis 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.
- $341k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Steve & Amy Louis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $341k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $523k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $174k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $587k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $298k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $123k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $150k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $50k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Colorado College | $1,145,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Adler Planetarium | $510,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Lake Owen Association Inc | $111,565 | 6 | 34% |
| Avery Coonley School | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Valleywise Health Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Morton Arboretum | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Our House Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wildland Firefighter Foundation | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Naples Botanical Garden Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Colorado College | $1,145,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Adler Planetarium | $510,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Lake Owen Association Inc | $111,565 | 6 | 34% |
| Avery Coonley School | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Valleywise Health Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Morton Arboretum | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Our House Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wildland Firefighter Foundation | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Naples Botanical Garden Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ibji Cares Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Wisconsin's Green Fire Incorporated | $12,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Yale University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cable Natural History Museum Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| King-Bruwaert House | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Dragon Kim Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shelterbox USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($161k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Steve & Amy Louis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Steve & Amy Louis Foundation
- How much does Steve & Amy Louis Foundation give?
- Steve & Amy Louis Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $341,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Steve & Amy Louis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Arts & Culture (22%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Steve & Amy Louis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Colorado College ($1.1M), The Adler Planetarium ($510k), Lake Owen Association Inc ($112k).
- Does Steve & Amy Louis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Steve & Amy Louis 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 Steve & Amy Louis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Steve & Amy Louis Foundation based?
- Steve & Amy Louis Foundation is based in FL.
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