· Private foundation
H S Lee Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lehigh University | $1,720,000 |
| Seoul National University Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 |
| Surgical Education International | $300,000 |
| Calista Education and Culture Inc | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +53%
- SNSEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +71% · 50% of their budget
- SESURGICAL EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL2× · 2024–2025 · $600k · revenue 0% · 90% of their budget
Funded once
- LSLittle Sisters of the Holy Familyone grant, 2024 · $100k
- NBNourishing Bethesda Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +62%
- TOTHE ONENESS FAMILY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +52%
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.
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Comparative studies and research concerning the political, economic, social, and cultural barriers and ties among the usa,south korea and north korea.
Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…
Lebanese american university is committed to academic excellence, student-centeredness, civic engagement, the advancement of scholarship, the education of the whole person, and the formation of leaders in a diverse world.
Provide a high-value, immersive education within a culturally-diverse operational environment that enables professional research promoting multi-national space exploration and science literacy.
Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.
See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Calista Education and Culture Inc ↗
- Who funds Nourishing Bethesda Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ONENESS FAMILY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFE AND DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF MADISON COUNTY INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization H S Lee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H S Lee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Life and Discovery Inc: 100% of income from government
How this is measured
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