New York · Private foundation
The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $895k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 63
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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 | 55 | $874k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $594k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $592k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $2.2M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Star Code Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 11% |
| The Loyola School Inc | $155,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | $127,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $111,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Dance Theatre of Harlem Inc | $105,680 | 4 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Innovation Works Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Maryland African American Museum Corporation | $98,500 | 5 | n/a |
| National Federation of Filipino American Assoc | $83,000 | 3 | 14% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Bunting Family Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · Sherman Family Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc with peer funders
About The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc
- How much does The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc give?
- The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc reported 58 grants totaling $895,180 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 63 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (43%), Education (16%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: All Star Code Inc ($500k), The Loyola School Inc ($156k), Cristo Rey Jesuit High School ($127k).
- Does The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, France-Merrick Foundation Inc, T Rowe Price Foundation.
- Where is The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc based?
- The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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