How much does The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation give?

The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $77,668 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

Who are The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Answer Relief ($30k), Baxter Community Center ($26k), Fountain Street Church ($19k).

Does The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Frey Foundation, Feeding America West Michigan.

The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation

The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation

Q: What does The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (20%), International (18%), Health (13%).

Q: Where is The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation based?

The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation is based in MI.

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$78k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$9k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$88kInternational$80kHealth$56kHuman Services$35kReligion$24kEducation$21kArts & Culture$19kAnimals$18kOther$0

02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$367k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$8,500
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH	$5,000
GUILDA' CLUB	$5,000
EQUEST CENTER	$5,000
LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL	$5,000
MERCY SHIPS	$3,500
BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER	$3,000
TECHNO SERVE	$3,000
EASTER SEALS	$2,500
UNICEF	$2,000
FINCA	$2,000
WGVU	$2,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$2,000
OXFAM	$2,000
PROGRESSIVE WOMANS ALLIANCE	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$333k · 34 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$333k

$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+19%

Still filing today

65%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationOther

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

AR
ANSWER RELIEF
4× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +2%
BC
BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER
6× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +29%
LC
LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL INC
4× · 2019–2024 · $17k · revenue +48%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $25k
MR
Micheles Rescue
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +5%
DM
DEGAGE MINISTRIES
one grant, 2023 · $5k · 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.

Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International

World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International

Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition

International Committee of the Red Cross

The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…

International

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Reaching Out to Youth 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

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/60

Grantees still filing

41/60

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$271,288International$78,475Human Services$39,600Education$18,100Animals$12,806Health$7,727Food & Nutrition$6,000

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.

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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI29.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Sebastian Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Keller Foundation · Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · The Meijer Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos 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 William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William R and Susan K Lewis Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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