California · Private foundation
Lee 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.
- $95k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 5 | $95k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $223k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $387k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $327k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $120k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $220k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $175k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $86k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Caltech Y | $505,000 | 8 | 15% |
| The J Paul Getty Trust | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Academy of Arts & Sciences | $301,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd | $230,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Door of Hope | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fu-Jen University Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Public Media Group of Southern California | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Harbor Day Endowment Corporation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lee Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Edmund and Mary Shea Family Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Greater Horizons · California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lee Foundation
- How much does Lee Foundation give?
- Lee Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $95,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Arts & Culture (29%), Social Science (18%).
- Who are Lee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Caltech Y ($505k), The J Paul Getty Trust ($400k), American Academy of Arts & Sciences ($301k).
- Does Lee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lee 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc, The Rose Hills Foundation, Pasadena Community Foundation.
- Where is Lee Foundation based?
- Lee Foundation is based in CA.
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