Texas · Private foundation
Four 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.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $35M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Four Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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 | 32 | $3.7M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.5M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $1.3M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $1.1M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $1.2M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $1.1M | 36% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $693k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $641k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $1,460,166 | 4 | 1% |
| Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc | $1,263,000 | 4 | 8% |
| The Council on Recovery | $1,242,680 | 8 | 4% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $1,130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston Zoo Inc | $453,334 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way Inc | $375,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The United Way Inc | $300,000 | 4 | 2% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $285,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Houston Arboretum & Nature Center | $270,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The North Carolina Arboretum Society | $205,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Four Lee Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Four Lee Foundation
- How much does Four Lee Foundation give?
- Four Lee Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $3,747,080 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Four Lee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (43%), Animals (16%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Four Lee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Memorial Hermann Foundation ($1.5M), Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ($1.3M), The Council on Recovery ($1.2M).
- Does Four Lee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Four 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 Four Lee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Four Lee Foundation based?
- Four Lee Foundation is based in TX.
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