· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $800k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $580k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE | $135,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $100,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| CO2 COALITION | $40,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $37,500 |
| AMERICAN FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE | $37,500 |
| CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY | $37,500 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $37,500 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $37,500 |
| THE SHEA CENTER | $30,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| ST JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $284k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $241k 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
- HDHarbor Day School5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +78%
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $585k · revenue +190%
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC4× · 2017–2022 · $520k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- PFPARKWAY FORD HERITAGE MISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +44%
- AAALZHEIMBERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $30k
- PMPVH MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $30k
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 The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Parkway Ford Heritage Mission. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 112 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 Harbor Day School ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CO2 COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PARKWAY FORD HERITAGE MISSION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: 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
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 The Lewis Family Charitable 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.