About Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation
A 2024 $100,000 unrestricted grant to Stockton Gospel Rescue Center is the clearest signal of how Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation gives: large, flexible support to local organizations meeting immediate human needs. The foundation’s recent grant history centers on Stockton and nearby San Joaquin County communities, with grants reaching food banks, dining rooms, homeless services, health care charities, and children’s organizations. Its pattern is less about broad issue campaigns than about underwriting frontline providers that supply food, shelter, and care.
The recurring grantees help define that approach. Emergency Food Bank received $65,000 in both 2023 and 2024, while St. Mary’s Dining Room and St. Joseph’s Medical Center Foundation each appear among the larger awards across the two years. Mary Graham Children’s Foundation and Stockton Homeless Shelter also received $50,000 grants in 2023 and 2024, reinforcing a steady emphasis on basic needs and services for vulnerable children and adults.
All of the recent grants in the dataset went to California recipients, showing a tightly local funding footprint. The foundation’s support is consistently unrestricted, which suggests an emphasis on organizational flexibility rather than project-specific restrictions.
What Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation Funds
In food assistance, Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation backed Emergency Food Bank with $65,000 in 2024 and St. Mary’s Dining Room with $50,000 in 2024. Those awards align with support for food banks, meal programs, and other emergency food relief.
Its shelter giving includes a $100,000 grant to Stockton Gospel Rescue Center in 2024 and $50,000 to Stockton Homeless Shelter in 2023, pointing to direct support for rescue-mission and housing-safety-net services.
Children and family services also appear in the recent record. Mary Graham Children’s Foundation received $50,000 in 2024, and Children’s Home of Stockton received $25,000 in 2024, both consistent with the foundation’s focus on at-risk children and families.
Health care is another clear thread: St. Joseph’s Medical Center Foundation received $50,000 in 2023 and $37,000 in 2024.
How Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation Gives
Typical grant size clusters around a $50,000 median, with a lower quartile of $21,954 and an upper quartile of $50,000. The recent record shows a mix of $100,000, $65,000, and many grants at or near $50,000, alongside smaller awards in the $9,600 to $25,000 range.
Giving appears recurring rather than one-off for several recipients: Emergency Food Bank, St. Mary’s Dining Room, Mary Graham Children’s Foundation, Stockton Gospel Rescue Center, St. Joseph’s Medical Center Foundation, Quilts of Honor, Children’s Home of Stockton, Junior League of San Joaquin County, and The Villageadult Dvlp and Community Center all appear more than once across 2023 and 2024. Grants are single-year and unrestricted, and the program notes that the foundation accepts unsolicited submissions.