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H & H Lee Charitable Foundation
CONTRIBUTE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE, MEDICAL RESEARCH, PUBLIC INTEREST, AND FOSTERING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SPORTS COMPETITION.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $620k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+2 grants · $695k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION | $425,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $270,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY | $205,000 |
| VICTORY RANCH | $170,000 |
| MY CITY LIFE YOUTH CENTER | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $135,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB SAN JUAN CAP | $100,000 |
| WORKING WARDROBES | $70,000 |
| HIGH HOPES | $60,000 |
| UCI PUBLIC HEALTH SCHOLARSHIP | $60,000 |
| HARVEST LAHAINA FIRE RELIEF | $60,000 |
| PALOMAR CONFERENCE CENTER | $60,000 |
| WESTERN CENTER ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY COMMUN FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
74 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $685k 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
- TETHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +50%
- GFGOLF FORE LIFE SKILLS THE FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY4× · 2022–2025 · $745k · revenue +32%
- VRValley Restart Shelter Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $120k
- TRTHE REGULAR BAPTIST CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAone grant, 2021 · $115k
- YFYouth for Truth International dba My City Youthone grant, 2021 · $115k · revenue -31%
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.
The mission of the interfaith food center is to provide nutritious food to our neighbors in an environment that nurtures dignitiy and respect.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
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Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
With compassion, collaboration and commitment to action, vic provides services and program that engage and enrich the lives of older adults, families, and youth through a lens of inclusion to strengthen diverse communities in the valley
Pajaro Valley Shelter Services provides families with a path toward self-sufficient futures through short-and longer-term housing and supportive services.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Provide emergency free food to the needy, sick, and homeless people in Sacramento County.
The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is The Jaime and Blanca Jarrin Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 134 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 VICTORY RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE LIFE SKILLS THE FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KICK IT FORWARD ↗
- Who funds GRACELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Valley Restart Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds CALICINTO RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Working Wardrobes For A New Start ↗
- Who funds Age Well Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHEEPFOLD INC ↗
- Who funds KLCC PUBLIC RADIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SHE-CAN GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds HSLDA ACTION ↗
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: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians · God's Gift · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Texas Instruments Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation
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 H & H Lee Charitable Foundation 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.
- Klcc Public Radio Foundation — 2% 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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