Virginia · Private foundation
The Lewis and Butler 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.
- $371k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $115,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Lewis and Butler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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 | 31 | $371k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $390k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $359k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $355k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $312k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $350k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $349k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $390k | 11% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | $1,019,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Jewish Community Federation of Richmond | $517,750 | 9 | 2% |
| Jewish Community Center of Richmond | $200,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc | $130,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Virginia Repertory Theatre | $108,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Studio Theatre Inc | $96,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Richmond Ballet | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Project Innocence Inc | $72,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $71,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($667k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lewis and Butler Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Kathryn & W H Schwarzschild Fund · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition
How this is measured
About The Lewis and Butler Foundation
- How much does The Lewis and Butler Foundation give?
- The Lewis and Butler Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $370,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lewis and Butler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Philanthropy (18%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are The Lewis and Butler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ($1.0M), Jewish Community Federation of Richmond ($518k), Jewish Community Center of Richmond ($200k).
- Does The Lewis and Butler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lewis and Butler 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 The Lewis and Butler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, Kathryn & W H Schwarzschild Fund.
- Where is The Lewis and Butler Foundation based?
- The Lewis and Butler Foundation is based in VA.
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