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Eyvinne and Kay Lee Family Foundation at a glance

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Eyvinne and Kay Lee Family 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.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$391kReligion$64kCrime & Legal$62kCivil Rights$60kHealth$19kArts & Culture$8kPublic Benefit$6kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$736k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCKILNEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$50,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO$15,000
PALAMA SETTLEMENT$10,000
KALIHI UNION CHURCH$10,000
ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOCIETY TO AID RETARDED: $1k → 14%SOCIETY TO AID RETARDED: $1k → 14%SOCIETY TO AID RETARDED: $1k → 14%SOCIETY TO AID RETARDED: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $140 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
CA
VA
HI
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$501k · 20 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
7

Total granted

$501k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+1943%

Still filing today

55%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalMembership BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MH
    MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $289k · revenue +121%
  • PS
    PALAMA SETTLEMENT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +104%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • CO
    City of Moorpark
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • KO
    KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue ×20
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
2
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Los Angeles County Medical Association

To enhance the professionalism and clinical autonomy of physicians to allow them to advocate for their patients and the health of the community of los angeles.

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6
American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…

Science & Tech
7
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
8
Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Mount Sinai Community Foundation

To improve the health of the community it serves by ensuring the availability of medical, surgical, and primary care physicians and advanced practice providers and high quality healthcare services.

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11
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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12
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Huntsville Hospital Foundationinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $288,500 · OtherMCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONKALIHI UNION CHURCH: $62,500 · OtherKALIHI UNION CHURCHASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE: $60,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE+16 more: $22,084 · OtherMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $100,050 · EducationMassachusetts Inst…+1 more: $2,250 · EducationPALAMA SETTLEMENT: $60,000 · Crime & LegalPALAMA SET…THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $8,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 · Health+2 more: $550 · HealthLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $5,264 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $200 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,300 · InternationalSOCIETY TO AID RETARDED INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $240 · Human Services
Other$433,084Education$102,300Crime & Legal$60,000Health$9,050Arts & Culture$5,464International$5,300Human Services$4,240

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $288,500 over 8y, 16% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $100,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPALAMA SETTLEMENT: $60,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $5,264 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY TO AID RETARDED INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS ASSN INC: $2,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds PALAMA SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY TO AID RETARDED INC ↗
  • Who funds BEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS ASSN INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eyvinne and Kay Lee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eyvinne and Kay Lee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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