Funding search · EIN 476992936 · Los Angeles, CA

Good Old Lew Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

119
grants reported
$492,329
total given
2022–2025
filing years
$2,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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1 grant matching “indvidual · $5,000

  • $5,000

    Chrysalis · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To provide job-readiness programs to homeless and low income indviduals

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Whitney Museum4 grants · $51,200
  • Brentwood Presbyterian Church Preschool3 grants · $37,500
  • Curtis School3 grants · $32,500
  • Peninsula Open Space Trust4 grants · $31,000
  • Sunday Friends Foundation4 grants · $30,800
  • Humane Society Sv3 grants · $24,000
  • The Neighborhood Music School3 grants · $23,750
  • 2025 Harvest Home Benefit Gala1 grant · $20,000
  • Cancer Couch Foundation3 grants · $17,000
  • Ambition Angels1 grant · $15,000

Giving over time

$136,950
2022
$122,556
2023
$120,000
2024
$112,823
2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 119 grants.

  • $21,000

    The Neighborhood Music School · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $20,000

    2025 Harvest Home Benefit Gala · New York, NY · 2025

    General operations

  • $20,000

    Whitney Museum · New York, NY · 2024

    General operations

  • $16,000

    Whitney Museum · New York, NY · 2022

    To exhibit the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary american art

  • $15,000

    Ambition Angels · Los Angeles, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $15,000

    Brentwood Presbyterian Church Preschool · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $15,000

    Curtis School · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $15,000

    Curtis School · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $15,000

    Whitney Museum · New York, NY · 2023

    General operations

  • $15,000

    Brentwood Presbyterian Church Preschool · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To offer a loving atmosphere and many age-appropriate activities to enhance the physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of the children

  • $13,000

    Humane Society Sv · Milpitas, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $11,400

    Humane Society · Milpitas, CA · 2022

    To offer quality pet adoptions, affordable spaying/neutering, vaccinations and mircochipping services, pet care services and education programs to enhance the human-animal bond

  • $10,550

    Sunday Friends Foundation · San Jose, CA · 2022

    To empower families to break the generational cycle of poverty by fostering positive development in children while educating and guiding parents to support their children.

  • $10,000

    Audubon Society · Palo Alto, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $10,000

    Peninsula Open Space Trust · Palo Alto, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $10,000

    Sunday Friends Foundation · San Jose, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $10,000

    Humane Society Sv · Milpitas, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $10,000

    Peninsula Open Space Trust · Palo Alto, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $10,000

    Sunday Friends Foundation · San Jose, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $10,000

    Hillbrook School · Los Gatos, CA · 2022

    Providing extraordinary educational experience that fosters love of learning and help students develop skills to achieve their highest individual potential in school and life.

  • $10,000

    Peninsula Open Space Trust · Palo Alto, CA · 2022

    To protect natural lands on the san francisco peninsula and in the south bay for the benefit of all.

  • $9,000

    Beautiful Day Foundation · Milpitas, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $7,500

    Brentwood Presbyterian Church Preschool · San Jose, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $7,000

    Cancer Couch Foundation · Fairfield, CT · 2023

    General operations

  • $5,000

    Cancer Couch Foundation · North Kingstown, RI · 2025

    General operations

  • $5,000

    Center of Reproductive Rights · San Francisco, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $5,000

    Central Park Conservancy · Los Angeles, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $5,000

    Childrens Tumor Foundation - Marlos Marathon · Los Angeles, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $5,000

    Breakthrough Silicon Valley · San Jose, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $5,000

    Cancer Couch Foundation · Fairfield, CT · 2024

    General operations

  • $5,000

    Stand With Ukraine · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $5,000

    Breakthrough Silicon Valley · San Jose, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $5,000

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $5,000

    Breakthrough Silicon Valley · San Jose, CA · 2022

    To empower young people from underserved communities to reach their full potential

  • $5,000

    Cdls Foundation · Avon, CT · 2022

    To ensure early and accurate diagnosis of cdls, promote research into its causes and manifestations and help patients make informed decisions

  • $5,000

    Chrysalis · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To provide job-readiness programs to homeless and low income indviduals

  • $5,000

    Lacma · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To exhibit and interpret works of art from new and unexpected points of view, that are inforrmed by the los angeles region's rich cultural heritage and diverse population

  • $5,000

    Salvation Army USA · Alexandria, VA · 2022

    To preach the gospel jesus christ and to meet human needs in his name without discrimination

  • $5,000

    Second Harvest Food Bank · Irvine, CA · 2022

    To provide dignified, equitable and consistent access to nutritious food in orange county, ca.

  • $4,500

    Westwood Public Library · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To provide library services to the westwood community in los angeles

  • $4,000

    Cornelia De Lange Syndrome Foundation · Avon, CT · 2023

    General operations

  • $3,000

    Children'S Museum of Palm Desert · New York, NY · 2025

    General operations

  • $3,000

    Comic Relief USA · New York, NY · 2024

    General operations

  • $3,000

    Public Theatre · New York, NY · 2024

    General operations

  • $3,000

    No Time To Waste · San Jose, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $3,000

    The Public Theater · New York, NY · 2023

    General operations

  • $3,000

    Public Theatre · New York, NY · 2022

    To develop american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people

  • $2,500

    Concerts in Motion · Fairfield, CT · 2025

    General operations

  • $2,500

    Congregation Shir Hadash · New York, NY · 2025

    General operations

  • $2,500

    Curtis School · La Canada, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $2,500

    Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2024

    General operations

  • $2,500

    The Neighborhood Music School · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $2,500

    Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2023

    General operations

  • $2,500

    Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2022

    To oversee all aspects of the care, maintenance and restoration of new york's central park

  • $2,500

    Planned Parenthood · New York, NY · 2022

    To provide comprehensive reproductive healthcare services and advocate for public policies that guarantee access to such services

  • $2,500

    Rapunzel Project · Long Lake, MN · 2022

    To help chemotherapy patients keep their hair during treatment

  • $2,500

    The Neighbourhood Music School · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To provide music and english instruction to immigrant communities in los angeles

  • $2,073

    Drh Health Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $2,000

    Edesia · Rancho Mirage, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $2,000

    Drh Health Foundation · Duncan, OK · 2024

    General operations

  • $2,000

    Beautiful Day Foundation · Duncan, OK · 2022

    To ensure that elemtary age school children feel connected, loved and supported where they live and go to school

  • $2,000

    Duncan Regional Hospital Cancer Center · Duncan, OK · 2022

    To provide cancer treatment and emotional support to patients

  • $1,500

    Friends of Saratoga Library · New York, NY · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,500

    Kqed · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $1,500

    Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Agawam, MA · 2023

    General operations

  • $1,500

    Kqed · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $1,500

    Hammer Museum · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To present contemporary and historical art in a rotating exhibition program, as well as maintaining five collections

  • $1,500

    La Works · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    Mobilizes local residents to support nonprofits that are addressing critical community issues

  • $1,030

    Burbank International Film Festival · Burbank, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $1,010

    Cdls Chicago Marathon · Avon, CT · 2023

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Humane Society Sv · Los Angeles, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Kcrw 899fm · Palo Alto, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Kqed · Duncan, OK · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Kusc · New York, NY · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Los Angeles Regional Food Bank · New York, NY · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Marthas Kitchen · Los Gatos, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    One Kid One World · Duncan, OK · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Pelotonia · San Jose, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Peninsula Open Space Trust · Los Angeles, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Public Theatre · New York, NY · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Read Ahead · Santa Barbara, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Santa Barbara Zoo Foster Feeder · Los Angeles, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    St Francis School · Los Angeles, CA · 2025

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Beautiful Day Foundation · Duncan, OK · 2024

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Chla · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Los Angeles Police Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $1,000

    One Kid One World · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Santa Barbara Zoo Foster Feeder · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $1,000

    The UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Westside Guild of Children'S Hospital Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Beautiful Day Foundation · Duncan, OK · 2023

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Duncan Regional Hospital Cancer Center · Duncan, OK · 2023

    General operations

  • $1,000

    One Kid One World · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Rapunzel Project · Long Lake, MN · 2023

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Santa Barbara Zoo · Santa Barbara, CA · 2023

    General operations

  • $1,000

    Cincinnati Art Museum · Cincinnati, OH · 2022

    The cincinnati art museum features a diverse art collection of more than 73,000 works spanning 6,000 years. The museum also hosts several national and international traveling exhibitions each year.

  • $1,000

    Covenant House New York · New York, NY · 2022

    To provide shelter and services to youth experiencing homelessness

  • $1,000

    Kqed Public Media · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To serve the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media

  • $1,000

    One Kid One World · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To provide a foundation for education in impoverished communities throughout kenya and central america by giving children from primary though secondary school the opportunity for a better and brighter future

  • $1,000

    Santa Barbara Zoo · Santa Barbara, CA · 2022

    To sustain our operating budget, to support outreach programs and capital improvements

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.