New York · Private foundation
The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $17k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $445k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 21 | $17k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $17k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $17k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $18k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $23k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $24k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $25k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mpn Research Foundation | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dorot Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Animalkind Inc | $3,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bluepath Service Dogs Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Feeding Westchester Inc | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Hopes Door Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Paws Crossed Animal Rescue Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Meryl & Christopher Lewis 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.
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How this is measured
Compare The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation with peer funders
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About The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation
- How much does The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation give?
- The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $17,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), International (20%), Animals (10%).
- Who are The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Mpn Research Foundation ($8k), The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($5k), Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($5k).
- Does The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Daly Family Foundation Inc, The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation.
- Where is The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation based?
- The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation is based in NY.
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