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Lee Family 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.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$61kHealth$52kPhilanthropy$38kInternational$18kEducation$14kHuman Services$8kArts & Culture$3kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$200
Median grant
16
States reached
$501k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOFFITT CANCER CENTER$5,000
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$4,500
ST ANDREWS CHURCH$2,736
CIM ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,600
CINCINNATI HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$2,000
ASOCIMAI$1,950
ST SCHOLASTICA ROMAN CATHOLIC CHUR$1,250
TAMPA PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000
MOTHER OF THE EUCHARIST AND GRACE$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
DISABLE VETERANS NAT FNDT$725
SACRED HEART CHURCH TAMPA$724
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$350
PARALYZED VETERNS OF AMERICA$300
WORLD APOSTOLATE OF FATIMA USA$300
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $57 → 9%LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICES RELIEF: $50 → 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $500 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%THE SEEING EYE INC: $100 → 4%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $200 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $90 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $250 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%A CARING PLACE PREGNANCY HELP CENTE: $950 → 16%A CARING PLACE PREGNANCY HELP CENTE: $600 → 16%A CARING PLACE PREGNANCY HELP CENTE: $250 → 16%A CARING PLACE PREGNANCY HELP CENTE: $200 → 16%A CARING PLACE PREGNANCY HELP CENTE: $100 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
OK
LA
MS
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$161k · 60 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

60 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
53

Total granted

$161k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+38%

Still filing today

47%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

  • TL
    THE LAMB SHALL LEAD INTERNATIONAL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +16%
  • BS
    Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +208%
  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    4× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • MC
    MOFFITT CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • OF
    ONE FAITH ONE HOPE ONE LOVE CAMPAIG
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • MC
    MOFFUT CHURCH CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
5
Vietnam Veterans of America Inc

To support a full range of issues affecting vietnam veterans, as well as, all veterans. vva is the only congressionaly chartered organization exclusively dedicated to vietnam-era veterans and their families.

Public Benefit
6
Military Officers Association of America

Preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education and service. provide first-class service to our members. we are the leading voice on…

Public Benefit
7
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
10
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

See schedule osifma is the leading trade association for broker-dealers, investment banks and asset managers operating in the u.s. and global capital markets. on behalf of our industry's one million employees, we advocate on legislation,…

Community Improvement
11
Air Transport Association of America Inc

Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…

12
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lamb Shall Lead International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Social Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%37%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,501

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 132 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
35/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,512 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONASOCIMAI — $17,310 · OtherASOCIMAIMOFFITT CANCER CENTER — $17,000 · OtherMOFFITT CANCER CENTERST ANDREWS CHURCH — $15,999 · OtherST ANDREWS CHURCHMOFFITT CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherMOFFITT CANCER CENTER FOUNDATIONONE FAITH ONE HOPE ONE LOVE CAMPAIG — $10,000 · OtherONE FAITH ONE HOPE ONE LOVE CAMPAIGARCHDIOCESE OF CINCINNATI — $8,300 · Other+94 more — $65,389 · Other+94 moreTHE LAMB SHALL LEAD INTERNATIONAL INC — $17,396 · Philanthropy+2 more — $225 · PhilanthropyBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation — $13,800 · ReligionMOTHER OF THE EUCHARIST AND GRACE SHRINE INC — $1,000 · Religion+1 more — $450 · ReligionMercy Corps — $7,250 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $4,100 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,500 · InternationalAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,950 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $1,500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $1,160 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $420 · HealthLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME — $350 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $325 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $275 · Health+1 more — $50 · HealthCincinnati Hills Christian Academy — $3,500 · EducationTAMPA PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $1,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $345 · Education+1 more — $100 · EducationA CARING PLACE PREGNANCY HELP CENTER — $2,100 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $540 · Human ServicesKIDS WISH NETWORK INC — $500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $450 · Human ServicesKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE — $250 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $250 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $200 · Human Services+3 more — $207 · Human Services
Other$164,510Philanthropy$17,621Religion$15,250International$12,850Health$6,030Education$4,945Human Services$4,497

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,512 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAMB SHALL LEAD INTERNATIONAL INC — $17,396 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation — $13,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps — $7,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $4,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Hills Christian Academy — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFILIPINO AMERICAN ASSN OF S OHIO — $2,740 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetA CARING PLACE PREGNANCY HELP CENTER — $2,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America — $2,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,918 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $1,160 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER OF THE EUCHARIST AND GRACE SHRINE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTAMPA PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION — $892 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $435 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $420 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME — $350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $345 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE — $318 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION — $305 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $275 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN LORENZO RUIZ ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CENTER — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $90 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $57 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $51 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE LAMB SHALL LEAD INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation
  • Who funds Mercy Corps
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy
  • Who funds FILIPINO AMERICAN ASSN OF S OHIO
  • Who funds A CARING PLACE PREGNANCY HELP CENTER
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds MOTHER OF THE EUCHARIST AND GRACE SHRINE INC

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.

The Heidt Family FoundationOH15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Heidt Family Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation

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 Lee Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Mercy Corps47% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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