Illinois · Private foundation
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.
- $275k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2025
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 71
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Lee Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 67 | $275k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 61 | $281k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $332k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $262k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $261k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $246k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $212k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $209k | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Citizens for Self-Governance | $112,500 | 9 | 1% |
| The Cradle Foundation | $96,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Main Stay Therapeutic Farm Inc | $95,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Shellys Angels Saving Strays Inc | $72,500 | 8 | n/a |
| United Way of Lake County Inc | $70,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lake County Crisis Center | $55,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church | $53,500 | 9 | n/a |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $47,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($563k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lee Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Kiwanis Foundation of Lake Bluff & Lake Forest · Baxter International Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Trustmark Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · NSTS Charitable Foundation Inc · Garrett Family Foundation · The Grainger Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Lee Family Foundation
- How much does Lee Family Foundation give?
- Lee Family Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $275,025 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 71 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lee Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Education (10%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are Lee Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northern Illinois Food Bank ($150k), Citizens for Self-Governance ($113k), The Cradle Foundation ($96k).
- Does Lee Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lee Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lee Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Kiwanis Foundation of Lake Bluff & Lake Forest.
- Where is Lee Family Foundation based?
- Lee Family Foundation is based in IL.
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