Washington · Private foundation
Koh-Lee Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $9k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $400
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $361k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Koh-Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $9k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $38k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $8k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $522k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $8k | 89% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $19k | 94% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $22k | 92% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $26k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm | $30,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Maris Place | $10,310 | 5 | 0% |
| Chinese Information and Service Center | $5,200 | 2 | 0% |
| International Community Health Services Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwest Harvest Emm | $2,300 | 4 | 0% |
| Protect Democracy Project | $1,425 | 2 | 0% |
| Babies of Homelessness | $1,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio | $1,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Bellevue Friends of the Library | $1,050 | 5 | n/a |
| Horizons Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($579k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Koh-Lee 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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Koh-Lee Foundation
- How much does Koh-Lee Foundation give?
- Koh-Lee Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $9,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Koh-Lee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (78%), Education (6%), Health (4%).
- Who are Koh-Lee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm ($31k), Maris Place ($10k), Chinese Information and Service Center ($5k).
- Does Koh-Lee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Koh-Lee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Koh-Lee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Moccasin Lake Foundation.
- Where is Koh-Lee Foundation based?
- Koh-Lee Foundation is based in WA.
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