Tom Lewis founded a homebuilding company in Arizona and positioned it to create “particular homes for particular people.” It was particularly successful. At its peak in 2006 it constructed 320 houses for about $250 million in revenue. Then the great mortgage meltdown brought chaos to homebuilding. T. W. Lewis Company paid off all debt, shrank to 40 employees, and was sold by its founder in 2011 to another homebuilder with high standards—David Weekley. “I was ready to move on,” says Lewis. “Homebuilding is a lot of work.” Now he and his wife Jan focus on philanthropy. We sat with Lewis to learn more about his values-driven business, how he’s trying to fund organizations that develop people of high character, and the why and how of some of his major gifts.