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Tw Lewis Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $413k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| UNC KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $110,000 |
| VALLEYWISE | $100,600 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN STUDIO | $100,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $100,000 |
| PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION | $70,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE AMERICA | $50,000 |
| ARIZONA HELPING HANDS | $50,000 |
| SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $721k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $910k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BNBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +9%
- DCDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX8× · 2017–2024 · $780k · revenue +71%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $651k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- UKUNIVERSITY KENTUCKY LEWIS HONORS COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $1.5M
- BNBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION - THE WOMEN'S BOARD OF BNFone grant, 2017 · $303k
- UKUNIVERSITY KENTUCKY CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2021 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.
To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.
Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…
Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 149 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FOSTER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds THE GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN STUDIO ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Executive Council Charities
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Tw Lewis Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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