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The MB Lewis Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$179kEducation$136kPhilanthropy$123kHuman Services$31kArts & Culture$29kInternational$25kRecreation & Sports$21kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
$852
Median grant
12
States reached
$451k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Israel on Campus Coalition Inc$1,080
Deborah Project$1,080
AFINS Warrior Care Buddy$1,080
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE: $416 → 12%HOMES NOT BORDERS: $1k → 11%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $1k → 14%American Red Cross: $820 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%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

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
FL

Beyond the US: 15% of all-years giving ($105k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$104k · 8 grants
Israel$1k · 3 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
$533k · 46 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
99

Total granted

$533k
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
0%

Still filing today

41%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
EducationInternationalReligionCivil RightsArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MG
    MILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $124k · revenue +92%
  • NR
    NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +5%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $11k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LOST MURAL PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $21k
  • PH
    POTOMAC HOME SUPPORT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -7%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +13%
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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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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2
Sherit Isroel
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3
University of Judaism Foundation
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4
The Jerusalem Connection
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5
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
6
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
7
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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9
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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10
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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11
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
12
Abrahamic Reunion Inc

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.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B Nai B Rith; 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.
04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 175 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
37/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TAMIR FOUNDATION: $102,542 · OtherTAMIR FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $44,234 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $33,799 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INCB NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $31,525 · OtherB NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATIONIndividual grant recipient: $30,680 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYAD YEHUDA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $27,010 · OtherYAD YEHUDA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INCTHE LOST MURAL PROJECT: $20,680 · OtherNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC: $20,000 · OtherADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGATION: $18,602 · Other+130 more: $143,350 · Other+130 moreMILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $123,715 · EducationMILTON GOTTESMAN JEWIS…EMET OUTREACH: $10,000 · EducationEMET OUTREACH+8 more: $9,595 · Education+8 moreCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $26,305 · Public Benefit+1 more: $200 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,100 · InternationalBayit Brigade: $4,490 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $2,712 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $1,092 · International+9 more: $3,725 · InternationalTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $13,985 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropySHALOM ORLANDO INC: $680 · Philanthropy+1 more: $360 · PhilanthropyPOTOMAC HOME SUPPORT INC: $13,785 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,785 · Civil RightsINTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $1,707 · Civil RightsTHE DEBORAH PROJECT INC: $1,080 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $670 · Civil Rights+1 more: $250 · Civil Rights
Other$472,422Education$143,310Public Benefit$26,505International$22,119Philanthropy$16,025Health$14,785Civil Rights$14,492

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 budgetMILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $123,715 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $26,305 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $13,985 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOTOMAC HOME SUPPORT INC: $13,785 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,785 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $10,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMET OUTREACH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBayit Brigade: $4,490 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $2,712 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ivymount School Inc: $2,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON DC POLICE FOUNDATION: $2,360 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOME INC: $1,925 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNLI USA INC: $1,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $1,707 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION: $1,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $1,380 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES NOT BORDERS INC: $1,354 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $1,353 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $1,210 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $1,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $1,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $1,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB NAI B RITH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNE'S PLACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $920 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSVIVAH INC: $875 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment: $732 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM ORLANDO INC: $680 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $642 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRABBI CHAIM KOWALSKY MEMORIAL AHAVAS YISRAEL FUND INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZionist Rabbinic Coalition Inc: $540 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Jewish Federation…Jewish Communal FundAviv Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Mayberg Foundation IncThe Morningstar Phila…The Gary & Carol Berm…FjcT Rowe Price Program …Covenant FoundationThe Shimon Ben Joseph…Greater Washington Co…
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington IncMD33.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
12report 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.

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 175 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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