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The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Reginald F Lewis Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$895k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Benefit$2.3MEducation$879kYouth Development$692kArts & Culture$647kHealth$190kCivil Rights$182kCommunity Improvement$151kPhilanthropy$123kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $362k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $438k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION$180,000
THE LOYOLA SCHOOL$79,500
ST IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY$75,000
MARYLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM CORPORATION$53,500
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE$27,000
DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM$25,680
SECOND CHANCE COLLEGE PROGRAM$25,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$25,000
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM$25,000
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER$25,000
INNOVATION WORKS$25,000
ORCHKIDS$25,000
APOLLO THEATRE FOUNDATION INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $1k → 10%LIBERTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR FILIPINO ARTISTS: $17k → 13%ART WITH A HEART: $5k → 19%FOUNDATION FOR FILIPINO ARTISTS: $3k → 13%THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $10k → 19%THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $5k → 19%THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $3k → 19%THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $2k → 19%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 17%THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $1k → 19%THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 60 repeat orgs$408k to everyone else

60 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
61

Total granted

$4.9M
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+8%

Still filing today

70%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $112k · revenue +40%
  • Teach for America Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +5%
  • IW
    INNOVATION WORKS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • SF
    SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +63%
  • AE
    ARTS EVERY DAY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -66%
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.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
5
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.

Education
10
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
11
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc; the most unlike its peers is Philippine Fiesta Usa Inc. 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

92 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. 92 of the 151 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
52/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $2,290,000 · OtherTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONST IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY: $219,500 · OtherST IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMYTHE LOYOLA SCHOOL INC: $155,500 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $127,000 · Other+83 more: $852,495 · Other+83 moreAll Star Code Inc: $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentAll Star Cod…THREAD INC: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHREAD INCMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $111,500 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $100,000 · EducationCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE NATIONAL URBAN TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC: $15,000 · EducationVILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREP: $15,000 · EducationARTS EVERY DAY INC: $15,000 · Education+11 more: $54,750 · EducationALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $105,680 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $32,500 · Arts & CultureAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKINDING SINDAW HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $38,000 · Arts & CultureINNOVATION WORKS INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $20,500 · Human ServicesFoundation for Filipino ArtistsInc: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesArt With a Heart Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP INC: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,750 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL: $4,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $4,150 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$3,644,495Youth Development$607,000Education$396,250Arts & Culture$349,680Community Improvement$151,000Human Services$112,000Philanthropy$101,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAll Star Code Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $111,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $105,680 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINNOVATION WORKS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOC: $83,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHREAD INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $76,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMercy Health Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $20,145 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Filipino ArtistsInc: $20,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetKINDING SINDAW HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetHAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $15,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL URBAN TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetVILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTS EVERY DAY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA NEEDS YOU: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFILIPINO AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetRon Brown Scholar Fund: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA HOCKEY INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAFRO CHARITIES INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HISTORYMAKERS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArt With a Heart Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIBERTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC: $4,500 over 2y, 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 All Star Code Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATION WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds THREAD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
  • Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Madison Square Boys & Girls Club ↗
  • Who funds THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Filipino ArtistsInc ↗
  • Who funds KINDING SINDAW HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL URBAN TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗

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.

Baltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…T Rowe Price Foundati…The Bunting Family Fo…The United Way of Cen…The Hyde and Watson F…The Abell Foundation …Sherman Family Founda…T Rowe Price Program …The Morris Goldseker …Associated Jewish Cha…Brown Advisory Charit…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD30× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Arts Every Day Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Saint Peter's University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 151 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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