· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIE | $11,000 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PALO ALTO CHINESE SCHOOL | $1,800 |
| JOY FOUNDATION | $1,746 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| MVLA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| DUO DUO PROJECT | $500 |
| BALOON | $350 |
| TSGHSAA | $250 |
| MONTCLAIRE PARENT TEACHER ORG | $25 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- MVMOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $29k · revenue +22%
- BPBARRON PARK ELEMENTARY PTA4× · 2019–2022 · $16k
- GFGunn Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- PAPALO ALTO ART CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +44%
- KCKW CARESone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PAPALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +505%
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.
The Almond Elementary School PTA is a volunteer organization working on behalf of students and staff. The PTA works to improve the education, health and welfare of all children and youth.
To support the students, staff, parents and community of the Los Altos High School district
Our mission is to support K-8 Mandarin instruction within the San Mateo-Foster City School District in order to enable students from all backgrounds the opportunity to develop a mastery of Mandarin Chinese language and appreciation of…
Fostering excellence in education through pvusd.
Provide resources for educational activities beyond the standard curriculum and to provide independent funding for worthy educational programs affected by budget reductions. Sponsor educational activities that provide additional…
to support the students, staff and parents at John Muir Elementary School
Los Altos Chinese School Childrens Center offers a year-round, full-day, bilingual program for preschool students (3 to 5 years old) in the Los Altos area.
Our mission is to create opportunities for Marin School of the Arts to innovate and support a quality arts education experience for all of its students.
To provide resources and funds for maintaining and enriching the educational environment at Petaluma Junior High School.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain View Los Altos High School Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Joy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 62 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 MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO ART CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gunn Foundation ↗
- Who funds Palo Alto H S Sports Booster Club ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO CHINESE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Joy Foundation ↗
- Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY CARES ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Palo Alto High School PTSA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mountain View Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALTA VISTA HOME & SCHOOL CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Barron Park Elementary School PTA ↗
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.
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
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 Juliana Lee Foundation 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.
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.