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.

The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation

The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$160k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.4MHuman Services$989kHealth$819kArts & Culture$600kCivil Rights$436kSocial Science$235kReligion$199kOther$0

02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $69k
$10k–50k41 grants · $800k
$50k–250k6 grants · $580k

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
JUDICIAL WATCH	$37,500
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$37,500
AMERICAN FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE	$37,500
CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY	$37,500
THE SHEA CENTER	$30,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION	$25,000
THE ROBERT BEVERLY LEWIS CANCER CEN	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Lewis Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.7M · 55 repeat orgs$612k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.7M

$371k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+22%

Still filing today

65%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $241k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

HD
Harbor Day School
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +78%
TP
TURNING POINT USA INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $585k · revenue +190%
NM
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC
4× · 2017–2022 · $520k · revenue +76%

Funded once

PF
PARKWAY FORD HERITAGE MISSIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +44%
AA
ALZHEIMBERS ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2023 · $30k
PM
PVH MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $30k

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.

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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The Liberal Patriot Inc

The liberal patriot (tlp) is a digital newsletter focused on american politics and public policy. tlp aims to provide readers with honest analysis and original commentary to help advance a vital center perspective in american life.

Civil Rights

National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit

Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

05the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

68/69

Grantees still filing

42/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,196,400Education$2,377,850Arts & Culture$595,000Public Benefit$525,000Health$513,500Human Services$288,500Animals$145,000

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

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.

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.

Farrell Family FoundationCA32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

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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

The DAF merry-go-round

$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