Louisiana · Private foundation
Lee Chen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $799k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Lee Chen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $20k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $33k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $19k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $12k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $9k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Health$40kPublic Benefit$20kEducation$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kReligion$6kPhilanthropy$5kArts & Culture$5k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Eclat Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Evangelical Formosan Church of New Orleans | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Committee for a Better New Orleans | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.
About Lee Chen Foundation
- How much does Lee Chen Foundation give?
- Lee Chen Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lee Chen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Public Benefit (21%), Education (11%).
- Who are Lee Chen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($40k), Eclat Foundation ($10k), Evangelical Formosan Church of New Orleans ($6k).
- Does Lee Chen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lee Chen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Lee Chen Foundation based?
- Lee Chen Foundation is based in LA.
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