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Lee Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$135kHealth$22kArts & Culture$21kHuman Services$19kYouth Development$12kFood & Nutrition$5kPublic Benefit$3kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$74k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Take Stock in Children$20,000
Amelia Museum of History$5,000
Theatre Q Asbury$5,000
Food Bank of Santa Barbara Cty CA$3,000
Just in Time Foundation$3,000
Planned Parenthood$2,500
Public Broadcasting System Atlanta$2,000
MPN Research Foundation$2,000
Girls Inc$1,000
Fernandina Beach Pride$1,000
Florida Theater Performing Arts$1,000
Rotary Club of Fernandina Charitabl$500
JASMYN$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Nassau County Council on Aging: $5k → 7%Nassau County Council on Aging: $5k → 7%Atlanta Mission: $500 → 13%Midtown Assistance Center: $1k → 13%Micahs Place Inc: $1k → 7%Nassau County Council on Aging: $1k → 7%Nassau County Council on Aging: $1k → 7%Micahs Place Inc: $500 → 7%Micahs Place Inc: $250 → 7%Micahs Place Inc: $250 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 18 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
32

Total granted

$183k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+21%

Still filing today

56%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NC
    NASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +2%
  • GI
    GIRLS INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +44%
  • RI
    RAPPU INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • BI
    Bridge4Students Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -63%
  • UC
    Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
2
Feeding South Florida Inc

Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.

Food & Nutrition
3
Florida Justice Institute Inc

Florida justice institute, inc. is a nonprofit corporation that uses impact litigation and advocacy to improve the lives of florida's poor and disenfranchised residents, while focusing on criminal justice reform, homelessness & poverty,…

Crime & Legal
4
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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5
Florida Pregnancy Care Network Inc

Our mission is to enhance the efforts of florida pregnancy resource organizations that deliver wellness services to qualifying women, and that provide emotional and material support to pregnant women in need, enabling them to carry their…

Human Services
6
Ability Housing Inc

The mission of ability housing is to build flourishing communities where everyone has a home. its vision is a society where housing is a right, not a privilege; and all individuals have safe, affordable housing in vibrant communities. it…

Health
7
Miami Cancer Institute At Baptist Health Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of miami cancer institute at baptist health, inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve.…

Health
8
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc

Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…

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9
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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10
Florida Impact Inc

Florida impact to end hunger is dedicated to advancing health equity by ending hunger for all floridians. we mobilize communities to maximize access to federal, state, and local food and nutrition programs with a focus on florida's most…

Civil Rights
11
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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12
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN: $122,500 · Crime & LegalTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDRENPlanned Parenthood: $6,500 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodGuttmacher Institute Inc: $6,000 · OtherGuttmacher Institute IncSpruill Arts Center: $6,000 · OtherSpruill Arts CenterJUSTIN TIME FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherJUSTIN TIME FOUNDATIONTheatre Q Asbury: $5,000 · OtherTheatre Q AsburyAmelia Museum of History: $5,000 · OtherAmelia Museum of HistoryUkraine Crisis Relief Fund: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherPope Globalization Academy Foundati: $3,000 · OtherFood Bank of Santa Barbara Cty CA: $3,000 · OtherJust in Time: $2,500 · Other+27 more: $24,000 · Other+27 moreNASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesMicahs Place Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesBridge4Students Inc: $3,000 · EducationRAPPU INC: $3,000 · EducationWEALTHY HABITS INC: $1,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationGIRLS INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOY TO THE CHILDREN INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $1,000 · HealthATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $1,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 · HealthTHE AMYLOIDOSIS FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthFERNANDINA BEACH PRIDE INC: $3,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,500 · Civil Rights
Crime & Legal$122,500Other$72,000Human Services$16,000Education$7,500Youth Development$6,500Health$5,000Civil Rights$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN: $122,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBridge4Students Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRAPPU INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFERNANDINA BEACH PRIDE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMicahs Place Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNABAS CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLORIDA THEATRE PERFORMING ARTS CENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARLEY'S MUTTS DOG RESCUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF NASSAU COUNTY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMYLOIDOSIS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds NASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds Bridge4Students Inc ↗
  • Who funds RAPPU INC ↗
  • Who funds FERNANDINA BEACH PRIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds Micahs Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds BARNABAS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WEALTHY HABITS INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FLORIDA THEATRE PERFORMING ARTS CENT ↗

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 Rayonier Advanced Materials Foundation IncFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rayonier Advanced Materials Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Micahs Place Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lee Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lee Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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