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The Lewy Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$350kPhilanthropy$325kEmployment$280kInternational$246kEducation$155kFood & Nutrition$115kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kHuman Services$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
$60,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE$83,333
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$70,000
HOT BREAD KITCHEN$67,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$60,000
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$45,000
HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION$33,333
FOOD CORPS$25,000
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 (FY17–25, $271k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $80k → 17%CENTRAL AMERICA LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $15k → 20%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $70k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $67k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $33k → 17%FUND FOR THE AGED: $500 → 17%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $5k → 17%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NC
DC
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 17 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
26

Total granted

$1.2M
$367k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+19%

Still filing today

82%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HB
    HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD
    4× · 2022–2025 · $250k · revenue +208%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +78%
  • FOODCORPS INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +78%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR YOUTH AND WELLNESS
    one grant, 2019 · $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.

1
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
2
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
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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6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
8
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
9
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
10
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
11
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
12
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGU…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $150,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGU…THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $95,366 · OtherTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUND…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $46,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHAR…ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $37,500 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RI…Rocky Mountain Institute: $37,500 · OtherRocky Mountain InstituteIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE …CENTER FOR YOUTH AND WELLNESS: $30,000 · OtherCENTER FOR YOUTH AND WELLN…VOLCKER ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 · OtherVOLCKER ALLIANCE INCEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $25,500 · OtherEVERY MOTHER COUNTSCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $15,000 · Other+14 more: $57,500 · Other+14 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $243,000 · InternationalInternational Rescu…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $75,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCH…+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $250,000 · Human ServicesHOT BREAD KITCHE…CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL AMERICAN…+2 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $193,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FED…ANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD: $35,000 · PhilanthropyANGLO-AMERICAN…+2 more: $2,150 · PhilanthropyFOODCORPS INC: $110,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,500 · Food & NutritionJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE: $93,333 · EducationTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTHE TIKVAH FUND: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $5,550 · Education
Civil Rights$350,000Other$434,366International$320,500Human Services$270,500Philanthropy$230,150Food & Nutrition$112,500Education$108,883

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $250,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $243,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $193,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $95,366 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE: $93,333 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $37,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVOLCKER ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $25,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES WILSON INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN FOUNDING: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLARCHE LONG ISLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXODUS SCHOOL: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE AGED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OUTPOST FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…California Community …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 45 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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