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Juliana Lee Foundation

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.

$20k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
92%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$51k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 92% of the organizations Juliana Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$20k50%
FY202313$26k92%
FY20228$31k50%
FY20215$16k40%
FY202012$44k67%
FY20199$35k78%
FY201811$35k91%
FY201713$58kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$137kArts & Culture$57kHealth$15kRecreation & Sports$15kInternational$5kHousing & Shelter$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHuman Services$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($122k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Juliana Lee Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMountain View Los Altos High School Foundation: $28,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPalo Alto Art Center Foundation: $24,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPalo Alto H S Sports Booster Club: $12,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetPalo Alto History Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPalo Alto Chinese School: $9,800 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetPalo Alto Partners in Education: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKeller Williams Realty Cares: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPalo Alto High School PTSA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetShin Shin Educational Foundation: $4,040 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMountain View Educational Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAlta Vista Home & School Club: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Joy Culture Foundation: $2,740 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBarron Park Elementary School PTA: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJoint Alumni Association of Chinese Universities in Northern California: $850 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Music Center: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

The Intuit FoundationCA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Intuit Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Juliana Lee Foundation

How much does Juliana Lee Foundation give?
Juliana Lee Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $19,671 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Juliana Lee Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Arts & Culture (21%), Health (6%).
Who are Juliana Lee Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mountain View Los Altos High School Foundation ($29k), Palo Alto Art Center Foundation ($25k), Gunn Foundation ($12k).
Does Juliana Lee Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Juliana Lee 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 Juliana Lee Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Intuit Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Where is Juliana Lee Foundation based?
Juliana Lee Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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