New York · Private foundation
The Lewy Family 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.
- $384k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $83,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Lewy Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 6 | $339k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $214k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $205k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $127k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $238k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $84k | 69% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $129k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $168k | 73% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd | $250,000 | 4 | 1% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $243,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foodcorps Inc | $110,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Harold Grinspoon Foundation | $95,366 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Graduate Student Initiative | $93,333 | 2 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Alliance for Children's Rights | $37,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $37,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($155k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lewy Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Lewy Family Foundation
- How much does The Lewy Family Foundation give?
- The Lewy Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $383,666 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lewy Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (19%), Philanthropy (18%), Employment (15%).
- Who are The Lewy Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd ($250k), International Rescue Committee INC ($243k), Anti-Defamation League Foundation ($200k).
- Does The Lewy Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lewy Family 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 Lewy Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, California Community Foundation.
- Where is The Lewy Family Foundation based?
- The Lewy Family Foundation is based in NY.
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