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W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc

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.

$99k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$413k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$99k0%
FY202313$106k15%
FY20223$81k0%
FY202112$110k0%
FY202014$94k0%
FY201914$80k7%
FY201818$70k17%
FY201717$65kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$438kEducation$315kArts & Culture$151kSocial Science$12kYouth Development$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kHuman Services$500International$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($653k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCorolla Education Foundation: $32,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetCommunity in Crisis Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLsu Foundation: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Mason University Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodberry Forest School: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSanctuary for Families Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc

How much does W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc give?
W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $98,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (47%), Education (34%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Corolla Education Foundation ($32k), Community in Crisis Inc ($7k), Lsu Foundation ($4k).
Does W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc 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.
Where is W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc based?
W Buford Lewis and Linda M Lewis Family Foundation Inc is based in VA.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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