Georgia · Nonprofit
JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION
JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION (Georgia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $416,526 to it, the largest being AARP ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $884k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $417k
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation does
Mission
The John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation is committed to strengthening democracy through civic engagement guided by truth, integrity, and moral clarity with a goal of amplifying the voices of rising generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Promote nonviolence, voting rights, civic engagement, social justice, democracy, international peace, human rights and civil liberties and to preserve and study african american history and culture and the history of the civil rights movement in the united states.
$268,899 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $268,899.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $198k to $2.8M (+1315%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
144% of JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Detria Everson
CEO
Board chair
Michael Collins
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $13k → $10k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 14 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 95% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $162k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $595k on record.
- National Archives and Records Administration$595k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION?
- JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION (Georgia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $416,526 to it, the largest being AARP ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $416,526 in grants to JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION?
- AARP is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHN AND LILLIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing