New York · Private foundation
John & Gayle 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.
- $260k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations John & Gayle Lee Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $195k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $225k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $165k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $171k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $135k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $113k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $105k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart) | $403,750 | 9 | 2% |
| Documenting Hope Inc | $155,000 | 9 | 4% |
| St Ignatius School | $117,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Cancer Support Team Inc | $112,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Blossom Hill Foundation Inc | $68,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Yale University | $50,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Yale University | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Trustees of the Convent of the Sacred Heart Inc | $40,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Georgetown University | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Manhattanville University | $30,000 | 8 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($255k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John & Gayle Lee Family 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About John & Gayle Lee Family Foundation
- How much does John & Gayle Lee Family Foundation give?
- John & Gayle Lee Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $260,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John & Gayle Lee Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Philanthropy (22%), Health (21%).
- Who are John & Gayle Lee Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Schools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart) ($404k), Documenting Hope Inc ($155k), St Ignatius School ($118k).
- Does John & Gayle Lee Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John & Gayle Lee Family 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 John & Gayle Lee Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is John & Gayle Lee Family Foundation based?
- John & Gayle Lee Family Foundation is based in NY.
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