Global Village Charitable Trust
/OVERVIEW: Global Village Charitable Trust primarily funds grantmaking related to the arts, education, health, human services, Jewish causes and policy.
IP TAKE: The foundation does not maintain a website, which restricts transparency about grantmaking strategies and guidelines. However, it funds progressive efforts in a wide range of areas.
PROFILE: Established in 1993, the Global Village Charitable Trust is steered by Daniel R. Lewis and family. Daniel was a director of Progressive Corporation, the auto insurance giant, which was cofounded by his late father, Joseph Lewis. The foundation does not maintain a website, which makes it difficult to locate further information on its priority areas and grantmaking strategies. Tax filings suggest that the Global Village Charitable Trust primarily funds grantmaking related to the arts, education, health, human services, Jewish causes and policy.
The Global Village Charitable Trust does not have a website to guide grantseekers. Most of the foundation’s grants are for general operating support. Daniel Lewis has spent some two decades years as an arts philanthropist, with his greatest focus on social and musical arts investing. He initiated the Cleveland Orchestra’s multi-week residency in Miami as founding chairman of Miami Music Association. He founded and chairs M:X (Miami Experimental), which focuses on arts education. He also launched the Lewis Prize for Music, which focuses on leaders of music programs who are advancing positive change for young people through music. Global Village Charitable Trust’s grantmaking touches arts and performing arts education. It also funds progressive policy organizations. Daniel’s late brother Peter was an ardent supporter of progressive organizations and advocated for drug policy reform.
Grants range between $1,800 and $583,000. In a recent year, the foundation gave away around $4.4 million. Learn more about this funder’s local giving by examining its recent tax records. Grantmaking focuses on South Florida, the Midwest, and New York, including Upstate New York and the Adirondack region. Past local grantees include Teach for America, ACLU, ProPublica, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Fund for Lake George, Saratoga Performmg Arts Center, UJA-Federation of New York, and Barnard College, from where Lewis’ daughter and foundation board member Marley Blue Lewis graduated.
This foundation does not typically accept unsolicited grant applications from nonprofits.
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CONTACT:
Global Village Charitable Trust
4000 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Ste. 510
Coral Gables, FL 33146
