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James T 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $336k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE YOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $75,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC | $60,000 |
| BROTHERS FOR LIFE | $55,000 |
| NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM | $52,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $52,500 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $50,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION | $50,000 |
| COTTAGE IN DARIEN INC | $40,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOC | $38,000 |
| LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k 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
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC4× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +66%
- LELOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM4× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +61%
- NLNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM2× · 2022–2024 · $73k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SLST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $30k
- TPTHE PANCREAS CENTER AT COLUMBIA UNIone grant, 2021 · $20k
- TPTHE PANCREAS CENTER AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership to End Addiction and the most unlike its peers is Keith Michael Morris Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 11% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE COTTAGE IN DARIEN INC ↗
- Who funds United States Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association and Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds BEACON COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
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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.
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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 James T 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.
- Beacon College 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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