· Private foundation
Lee Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERFORMING ARTS CENTER EASTSIDE | $10,000 |
| PLUS CHARITABLE TRUST | $4,500 |
| KIN ON | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +129% since the first grant, against +55% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2017–2020 · $49k
- KOKIN ON HEALTH CARE CENTER5× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +129%
- SASEATTLE ART MUSEUM4× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue -30%
Funded once
- PSPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -24%
- TPTSTEUCHI PERFORMING CENTERone grant, 2019 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
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.
To preserve and maintain the cultural identity of chinese immigrants and expose chinese art and contemporary masters of traditional art forms to the general public.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
To educate the public about asian contributions to the united states and the rest of the world, promote asian artistic excellence and cross-cultural narratives, and enhance career opportunities for asians by raising public awareness of…
Preserve and interpret the history, experiences, culture and achievements of americans of korean ancestry.
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
To expand cultural exchange through exhibitions, performances, fashion shows,culinary events, distribution of publications, and other artistic endeavors between korea and the united states
Mingei International Museum connects audiences with the creativity and cultural traditions of makers across time and the globe, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of our shared humanity through handmade objects, and the…
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
To celebrate diversity and multi-cultural appreciation of the asian and asian american experience through cultural events.
The chinese community center's mission is to bridge east & west by enriching families with educational, cultural, and social programs.
To foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of america's diverse heritage by researching, preserving, and sharing the history, rich cultural legacy, and continuing contributions of chinese americans.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIN ON HEALTH CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PLUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER EASTSIDE ↗
- Who funds KEIRO NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASIAN PERFORMING ARTS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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