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Barbara Lee Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAGLETON INSTITUTE OF POLITICS AT RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NJ | $99,275 |
| WOMEN & POLITICS INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Barbara Lee Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- T1THE 19TH NEWS4× · 2020–2023 · $55k · revenue +77%
- RSRunning Start4× · 2019–2023 · $10k · revenue +29%
- RIREPRESENTWOMEN INC2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +352%
Funded once
THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +113%- RIRADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- NWNATIONAL WOMENS POLITICAL CAUCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Engage more individuals in the civic process, educate them about the impact of public policies on their lives and our economy, and build support for policies that empower individuals.
A league of our own is dedicated to finding talented women to run for office and provide them the tools, resources, training, and mentorship to be successful candidates and effective leaders.
Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
Our core mission is to bring together, and leverage the influence of, professional women to expand the impact and power of women in the workplace and beyond.our vision is that women will achieve (continued on schedule o)equitable…
To improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity.
Vote run lead action trains pro-democracy, anti-racist, and feminist women to address the long-standing underrepresentation of women in legislatures. as a nonpartisan but values-aligned and mission-driven body, vrla advocates for key…
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
Leadership Womens mission is to ensure womens full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, and public life.
Engage more individuals in legislative advocacy, educate them about the impact of public policies on their lives and our economy, and build support for policies that empower individuals by giving them greater freedom and autonomy.
Founded in 1995 wfpg works to expand the foreign policy dialogue across policital divides and generations and to support women at every stake of their careers. as champions of womens leadership we are proud of our role in expanding the…
To provide women with the knowledge and resources to make seeking public office and engaging in the political process more accessible.
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is She Should Run and the most unlike its peers is Running Start. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds SHE SHOULD RUN ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMENS POLITICAL CAUC ↗
- Who funds Running Start ↗
- Who funds Higher Heights Leadership Fund ↗
- Who funds REPRESENTWOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
- Who funds VOTE RUN LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds NETROOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOTO LATINO INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALL IN TOGETHER CAMPAIGN INC dba ALL IN TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ Victory Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds VOTE MAMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Panorama Global · Tides Foundation · ReflectUS · Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation · Kelson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barbara Lee Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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