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The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc

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.

$728
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$364
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$6.8MYouth Development$2.2MEducation$637kCivil Rights$412kHealth$189kHuman Services$170kEmployment$30kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$364
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT$364
THE DAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION$364
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $253k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 8%BEYOND THE NATURAL FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 11%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%BEYOND THE NATURAL FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $50k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $15k → 11%MEXICAN AMERICAN COUNCIL: $5k → 15%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 14%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 14%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $1k → 23%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 14%HEALTHY HOOD CHICAGO: $50k → 14%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $15k → 15%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 14%HEALTHY HOOD CHICAGO: $1k → 14%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 15%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 68 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
111

Total granted

$8.4M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+6%

Still filing today

81%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • RI
    RYSE INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $451k · revenue +51%
  • THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $359k · revenue +104%
  • BEYOND THE BARS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $339k · revenue ×13 · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • MM
    MANA MAOLI
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -12% · 34% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $167k
  • DH
    DAVID'S HARP 930771871graduated
    one grant, 2022 · $104k · revenue +137%
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.

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Black Music Entrepreneurship Incubator

Musical Education and Training

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2
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
3
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
4
Cadence Music & Arts Programs
Arts & Culture
5
Bridges Through Music
Education
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Hermosa Beach Youth Music

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

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7
Mercury Music Foundation

Provide outstanding music programs for students aged 5 to 22 that can create a positive impact on their lives.

Education
8
Miami Music Project Inc

Miami music project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. our vision is…

Arts & Culture
9
Young Musicians Unite Inc

Young musicians unite believes that every student in miami-dade county deserves access to music education regardless of their socio-economic background. we collaborate with schools to provide free music education which has been proven to…

Arts & Culture
10
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc

To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.

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11
Afro American Music Institute Inc

Provide systematic specialized instrumental & vocal training in african- american music

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12
Academy of Indian Culture

Education in music

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upbeat Nyc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ke Kula Nui O Waimanalo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

145 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. 145 of the 180 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
143/145
Grantees still filing
85/145
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC: $555,117 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INCMY VOICE MUSIC INC: $526,789 · Arts & CultureMY VOICE MUSIC INCCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $507,121 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKSROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES: $412,076 · Arts & CultureROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITOR…Roots of Music Inc: $291,666 · Arts & CultureRoots of Music IncTHE BRIDGE MUSIC PROJECT: $213,396 · Arts & CultureMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $183,513 · Arts & Culture+87 more: $1,871,150 · Arts & Culture+87 moreHIP HOP INTO LEARNING: $666,000 · OtherHIP HOP INTO LEARNINGWE ARE CULTURE CREATORS: $585,210 · OtherWE ARE CULTURE CREATORSINTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC: $398,630 · OtherINTEMPO ORGANIZATION INCDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION: $222,465 · OtherDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $167,000 · OtherST LOUIS STITCHERS ARTISTS COLLECTIVE: $159,243 · Other+48 more: $934,594 · Other+48 moreRYSE INC: $450,526 · Youth DevelopmentRYSE INCDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION: $210,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAVID'S HARP…Neutral Zone: $205,000 · Youth DevelopmentNeutral ZoneTotem Star: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW CITY KIDS INC: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $55,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $77,000 · Youth Development+4 moreMANA MAOLI: $500,000 · EducationThe Foundation for the Advancement of Music & Education: $50,000 · EducationHarmony Project: $35,000 · Education+6 more: $40,000 · EducationTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC: $359,110 · Community ImprovementSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE: $30,000 · Community ImprovementBEYOND THE BARS INC: $338,861 · Crime & LegalYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $30,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER OF LIFE: $65,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHY HOOD CHICAGO: $51,000 · Human ServicesPeace Neighborhood Center: $40,000 · Human ServicesMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND THE NATURAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human Services+2 more: $6,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$4,560,828Other$3,133,142Youth Development$1,107,526Education$625,000Community Improvement$389,110Crime & Legal$369,861Human Services$253,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC: $555,117 over 3y, 20% of budgetMY VOICE MUSIC INC: $526,789 over 4y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $507,121 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetMANA MAOLI: $500,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetRYSE INC: $450,526 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES: $412,076 over 3y, 68% of budgetINTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC: $398,630 over 2y, 36% of budgetTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC: $359,110 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetBEYOND THE BARS INC: $338,861 over 5y, 37% of budgetRoots of Music Inc: $291,666 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetTHE BRIDGE MUSIC PROJECT: $213,396 over 2y, 33% of budgetDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetNeutral Zone: $205,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $183,513 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetHEAL'S CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $125,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetWHITE HALL ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetLos Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center: $115,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetSAINT LOUIS STORY STITCHERS ARTIST COLLECTIVE: $92,650 over 1y, 24% of budgetWEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $75,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTHE CHOIR SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetREVIVAL OF CULTURAL ARTS: $70,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetYOUTH RADIO: $70,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH ON RECORD: $70,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetEL SISTEMA SANTA CRUZ: $65,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetGRAND CANYON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $65,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetCENTER OF LIFE: $65,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetEnriching Lives Through Music: $56,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetPLAY ON PHILLY: $56,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTotem Star: $55,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budget317 Main St Community Center Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetZUMIX INC: $55,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $55,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUMP Inc: $51,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetHEALTHY HOOD CHICAGO: $51,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetThe Foundation for the Advancement of Music & Education: $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJUNEAU ALASKA MUSIC MATTERS: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetWomens Audio Mission: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT 440 INC: $40,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPeace Neighborhood Center: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHarmony Project: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPICO YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER: $31,000 over 2y, 19% of budget
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.

D'Addario Foundation …The Carnegie Hall Cor…The Elma Music Founda…Les Paul FoundationThe Presser FoundationMid Atlantic Arts IncThe Mockingbird Found…Find Your Light Found…The Zellerbach Family…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…Los Angeles Philharmo…The Cma Foundation
D'Addario Foundation IncNY95× affinity48 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) · Les Paul Foundation · The Presser Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Mockingbird Foundation · Find Your Light Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Los Angeles Philharmonic Association · The Cma 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 Prize Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Hyde Square Task Force Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Fp YouthOutcry Foundation Inc Dba the Hubb Arts & Trauma Center: 29% of income from government
  • Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Newark School of the Arts: 20% of income from government
  • My Voice Music Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Dont Miss a Beat Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Intempo Organization Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Institute of Music for Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Nu Deco Ensemble Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc: 0% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • David's Harp 930771871: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
57report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 180 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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