· Private foundation
The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $3,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FEEDING WESTCHESTER | $500 |
| DOROT | $500 |
| HASTINGS ON HUDSON FIRE DEPARTMENT | $500 |
| LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $500 |
| OCD FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SPCA WESTCHESTER INC | $500 |
| HASTINGS YOUTH COUNCIL | $500 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $500 |
| YONKERS ANIMAL SHELTER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +68%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +100%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION5× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- JJDCone grant, 2022 · $2k
- HIHEIFER INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $1k
- MHMASSACHUSETTS HOSPITAL CANCER CENTERone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.
To end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats globally, by developing food that will spay and neuter them, without surgery and end the overpopulation problem without killing.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 103 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMALKIND INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPES DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TO FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds NUNATAKS LTD D/B/A GREENBURGH NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds COLLABORATIVE FOR PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Daly Family Foundation Inc · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meryl & Christopher Lewis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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