· Private foundation
John Lynn & Luisa Lee Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greenfield School | $250,000 |
| Barton College | $27,000 |
| Barton College | $17,100 |
| First Baptist Church | $10,200 |
| Baptist Children's Homes of NC | $10,000 |
| Barton College | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $2,500 |
| Free Will Baptist Children's Home | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $1,000 |
| CCAI Adoption Services | $1,000 |
| BoysGirls Club Lower Naugatuck Vall | $500 |
| NC Museum of History Foundation | $500 |
| Salem Methodist Church | $500 |
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 (FY22–22, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +12% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGREENFIELD SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $785k · revenue +36%
- BCBARTON COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $302k · revenue +12%
- BCBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED4× · 2022–2025 · $73k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- BCBaptist Childrens Homesone grant, 2021 · $25k
- NWNational Wildlife Turkey Federationone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PCPitt Community College Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +2%
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.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
Private Baptist College
It is the mission of norfolk christian schools to equip students spiritually, intellectually, and physically to love god and to serve him as christ's ambassadors in the world.
Wilmington christian school provides a christ-centered challenging academic program with instruction based on the biblical view of god and the world. wcs teaches, influences, and encourages each student to effectively integrate biblical…
Operate a private school.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 45 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 GREENFIELD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BARTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Pitt Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Wetland Society ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING HILL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TUSCARORA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VOLLIS SIMPSON WHIRLIGIG PARK AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rones Chapel Area Community Center ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OGEECHEE AREA HOSPICE 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Southern Bank Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John Lynn & Luisa Lee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Lynn & Luisa Lee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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