South Carolina · Private foundation
Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation
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.
- $8.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $78,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $255M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $8.4M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $4.9M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $9.0M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $5.5M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $2.0M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $5.3M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $4.2M | 29% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $5.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francis Marion University Education Foundation | $15,010,000 | 8 | 60% |
| City of Florence | $10,381,118 | 7 | n/a |
| Medical University of South Carolina Foundation | $2,750,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Harvest Hope Food Bank | $2,075,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Clarendon County | $1,750,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trinity Collegiate School | $1,000,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Florence-Darlington Technical College Educational Foundation | $600,000 | 6 | 35% |
| City of Lake City | $309,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Battlefield Trust | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Eastern Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Aiken Foundation Inc · Betty S Campbell Charitable Foundation · Hm and Pearl Kyle Foundation Inc · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation
- How much does Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation give?
- Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $8,354,904 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Public Benefit (27%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Francis Marion University Education Foundation ($15M), City of Florence ($10M), Medical University of South Carolina Foundation ($2.8M).
- Does Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Assurant Foundation, Eastern Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation based?
- Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation is based in SC.
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