· Private foundation
The MB Lewis 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,484 |
| Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School | $11,000 |
| National Ramah Commission | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Woodside Synagogue Ahav Torah | $5,000 |
| Bnai Israel Congregation | $3,971 |
| Central Fund of Israel | $2,172 |
| Jewish Collab of Orange County | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,460 |
| Hebrew Institute of Riverdale | $1,240 |
| Sol Schechter Day School | $1,100 |
| Best Buddies Intl | $1,092 |
| Deborah Project | $1,080 |
| AFINS Warrior Care Buddy | $1,080 |
| Israel on Campus Coalition Inc | $1,080 |
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.
Your US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($604k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($105k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($105k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MGMILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL7× · 2019–2025 · $124k · revenue +92%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE2× · 2021–2022 · $11k · revenue +34%
- BBBayit Brigade4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- TLTHE LOST MURAL PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $21k
- PHPOTOMAC HOME SUPPORT INCone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -7%
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
The abrahamic reunion works to build sustainable peace with diverse faith communities in the holy land. we foster harmony by exploring common abrahamic values in order to create deep and lasting connections between people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B Nai B Rith and the most unlike its peers is Minyan Oneg Shabbat. 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.
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 31 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 175 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC HOME SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds EMET OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Bayit Brigade ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds The Ivymount School Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON DC POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds NLI USA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Aviv Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Mayberg Foundation Inc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · Fjc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Covenant Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation
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 organization The MB Lewis Charitable Foundation 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shalom Orlando Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
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 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.