How much did THE LEWIS PRIZE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$3.5MYouth Development$1.1MEducation$559kCommunity Improvement$389kCrime & Legal$370kHuman Services$253kHealth$108kPhilanthropy$25kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$4.2M

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $24k
$10k–50k5 grants · $83k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$13k

Total assets

Largest grants

INETNON GEFPA GO$167,000
THE ROOTS OF MUSIC$166,666
HIP HOP INTO LEARNING$166,000
NEUTRAL ZONE$150,000
THE BRIDGE MUSIC PROJECT$138,396
BRANDON HOUSE CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$100,000
ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURE IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES$95,051
HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC$95,000
HEALTHY HOOD CHICAGO$50,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC$50,000
BUMP INC$50,000
HEAL CENTER FOR THE ARTS$50,000
WHITE HALL ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION$50,000
JUNEAU ALASKA MUSIC MATTERS$50,000
THE DAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION$24,271

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $253k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.0M · 68 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +115% since the first grant, against +80% for the ones you funded once.

68 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107

Total granted

$8.0M

$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+115%

+80%

Still filing today

71%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

MV
MY VOICE MUSIC
4× · 2020–2023 · $527k · revenue +114%
CM
COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS
3× · 2020–2023 · $507k · revenue +932%
RI
RYSE INC
3× · 2020–2023 · $451k · revenue +252%

Funded once

MM
MEMPHIS MUSIC INITIATIVE
one grant, 2023 · $500k
MM
MANA MAOLIgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +129% · 34% of their budget
DH
DAVID'S HARP
one grant, 2022 · $104k · revenue -51%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Intonation Music Workshop

Intonation kids explore their limitless potential by learning to play instruments and forming their own rock bands. Our year-round classes make music accessible to children in low-income neighborhoods by providing them with instruments,…

Arts & Culture

Ansonia Music Outreach Organization Inc

Our mission is to establish the musical arts as a more essential and valuable experience in the lives of the general public. Our Access to Music program brings classical music to a new broad audience through free concerts events and…

Arts & Culture

Musical Instruments N Kids Hands

Music can transform lives especially for kids growing up in difficult circumstances. Music Instruments N Kids Hands mission is to introduce students to science technology engineering arts and math STEAM through an interactive and digital…

Arts & Culture

Hermosa Beach Youth Music

To initiate and develop musci education programs for Hermosa Beach youth.

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Mid-City Community Music

Provide music and arts education to underserved and underprivileged youth and adults in San Diego

Arts & Culture

Upbeat Music and Arts Center

Upbeat music and arts inspires and mentors through the arts to help youth reach their full potential.

Arts & Culture

Colorado Youth Mariachi Program

Non profit organization to service low income

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Music Educators

Advocate and promote the advancement of music educators

Arts & Culture

Northern California Music & Art Culture Center

Culture-enriched music & arts programs are offered to the young & adult in the San Francisco Bay Area, giving individual, group lessons, after-school music & arts

Arts & Culture

Commusication

Commusication's mission is to amplify young voices and cultivate skills for success through equitable access to music, collaboration, and opportunity.

Arts & Culture

California Music Center

To seek and nurture exceptional young string musicians, foster and further their performance and professional skills development, and provide them with performance opportunities and monetary support.

Arts & Culture

The Music Academy

Provides Music Instruction

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upbeat Nyc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 17 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.7%1/135

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,430

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.

04the grantee network

132 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

130/132

Grantees still filing

115/132

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,288,971Arts & Culture$3,470,271Youth Development$1,107,526Education$559,000Community Improvement$389,110Crime & Legal$369,861Human Services$253,000

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.

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.

D'Addario Foundation IncNY73.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: D'Addario Foundation Inc · The Carnegie Hall Corporation · The Elma Music Foundation (Us) · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Les Paul Foundation · The Presser Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Find Your Light Foundation · The Cma Foundation · Universal Music All Together Now · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Los Angeles Philharmonic Association

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 organisation THE LEWIS PRIZE FOUNDATION INC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GRAND CANYON MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 133206277 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GRAND CANYON MUSIC FESTIVAL, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 48% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE LEWIS PRIZE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

132 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE LEWIS PRIZE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

132 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph