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Farmer Lee 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| TOWN OF HIGHLANDS | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| FINCA INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| GRACE CAVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPME | $1,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $1,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $1,000 |
| GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,000 |
| HIGHLANDS CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| FIRST NATION DEVELOPMENT | $1,000 |
| NACOOCHEE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +10%
- FIFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +19%
- HLHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- DLDAVIS LOVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $9k
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabamagraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +25%
- MHMAUI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +79%
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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. 37 of the 71 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 Highlands Community Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES SMITHGALL HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals International ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · The H Foundation · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · Leona S Hudson Charitable Foundation · Boger-Owen Foundation · The Bell Family Foundation · The Britton Foundation · The Klamon Family Foundation Inc · Ashcourt Family Foundation Inc · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee
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 Farmer Lee 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% 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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