California · Private foundation
The Lewis Family Charitable 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 52
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k 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 | 63 | $1.4M | 44% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $1.6M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $1.2M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $1.2M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $996k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $652k | 90% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $37k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $156k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harbor Day School | $1,000,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $585,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Museum of Racing Inc | $520,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Prager University Foundation | $470,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Hoag Hospital Foundation | $370,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $270,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Pacifica Christian High School | $270,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $260,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $225,000 | 5 | 0% |
| America First Policy Institute Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 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: Farrell Family Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · Ebs Foundation · California Community Foundation · H & R Peters Family Foundation · The Bridget Rose Foundation Inc · Eric Javits Family Foundation · The Yaseen Family Foundation Inc · Vandevere Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation give?
- The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $1,448,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 52 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Public Benefit (18%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Harbor Day School ($1.0M), Turning Point USA Inc ($585k), National Museum of Racing Inc ($520k).
- Does The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lewis Family Charitable 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 Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farrell Family Foundation, Donors Trust Inc, The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation.
- Where is The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation based?
- The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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