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Lee Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Religion$262kHuman Services$224kHousing & Shelter$121kFood & Nutrition$48kHealth$28kCrime & Legal$23kCommunity Improvement$15kEducation$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $78k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE MORE CHILD$24,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$14,000
OPPORTUNITY PLACE INC$10,000
SHARING AND CARING OF OKALOOSA COUNTY$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY$10,000
FRESH START FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES$10,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKALOOSAWALTON COUNTY FLORIDA$6,000
JOURNEY CHURCH$6,000
PIONEERS-USA$5,000
IMPACT RACING MINISTRIES$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
PARTNERS FOR MADAGASCAR CORP$1,000
REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP$1,000
FLOROSA BAPTIST CHURCH$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 (FY18–21, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRACE'S PLACE FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $2k → 10%PROJECT LINUS: $1k → 8%HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 17%ST NICHOLAS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $300 → 17%SHELTER HOUSE: $5k → 8%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

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WI
MO
TN
NC
LA
AL
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$709k · 20 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$709k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+20%

Still filing today

15%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • OP
    OPPORTUNITY PLACE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +9%
  • FS
    FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +59%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKALOOSA/WALTON COUNTIES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • SH
    SHELTER HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -10%
  • LE
    LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $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
Family Care Center of Catawba Valley Inc

The organization serves homeless families with dependent children through an emergency and transitional residential program. the center offers physical, emotional, social and educational services to assist families in the transition to…

Human Services
2
Lighthouse for the Homeless

The only free day shelter in the area comprised of a collection of community agencies and service providers, all focused on a single mission: ending homelessness in tarrant county.

Human Services
3
Family Service Inc

To provide family and individual counseling

4
Advocates for Children Inc Casa of the Sabine Neches Region

Advocacy for abused children

Civil Rights
5
Helping Hand Home for Children Inc

To bring hope and healing to children and families through a continuum of trauma-informed, therapeutic care including residential, foster, adoption, and support services.

Human Services
6
Families in Crisis

Families in crisis, inc. houses, supports and empowers individuals affected by family violence, sexual assault, and homelessness.

Human Services
7
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

8
Grace House Ministries Inc

Counseling and benevolent assistance to new parents and their children.

Religion
9
Heartland Christian School Inc

The mission of heartland christian academy (of heartland christian school, inc.) is to provide a university-ready education in a safe and wholesome environment, grounded in the christian faith.

Education
10
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…

Human Services
11
Life Crisis Center Inc

To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.

Human Services
12
Ashley House

We are dedicated to providing education to families and caregivers, building support systems, coordinating services and nurturing the development of each individual.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grace Place for Children and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University. 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

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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 35 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $197,400 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHONE MORE CHILD INC — $155,500 · OtherONE MORE CHILD INCFRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $60,000 · OtherFRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INCMEALS ON WHEELS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY — $48,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF OKALOOSA COUNTYSHARING AND CARING OF OKALOOSA COUNTY — $45,000 · OtherSHARING AND CARING OF OKALOOSA COUNTYJOURNEY CHURCH — $28,000 · OtherOCSO SHERIFF'S STAR CHARITY — $23,000 · Other+17 more — $82,700 · Other+17 moreOPPORTUNITY PLACE INC — $60,500 · Housing & ShelterOPPORTUNI…MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKALOOSA/WALTON COUNTIES INC — $28,000 · HealthSHELTER HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LINUS — $1,000 · Human ServicesHOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $500 · Human ServicesST NICHOLAS CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $300 · Human ServicesLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL — $3,000 · EducationVanderbilt University — $300 · EducationIMPACT 100 OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $3,000 · PhilanthropyEMERALD COAST SCIENCE CENTER INC — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$639,600Housing & Shelter$60,500Health$28,000Human Services$8,800Education$3,300Philanthropy$3,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPPORTUNITY PLACE INC — $60,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetFRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $60,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKALOOSA/WALTON COUNTIES INC — $28,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSHELTER HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT 100 OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST SPRINGS CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD COAST SCIENCE CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT LINUS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST NICHOLAS CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $300 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 OPPORTUNITY PLACE INC
  • Who funds FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKALOOSA/WALTON COUNTIES INC
  • Who funds SHELTER HOUSE INC
  • Who funds LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds IMPACT 100 OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC
  • Who funds GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC
  • Who funds FOREST SPRINGS CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds EMERALD COAST SCIENCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds PROJECT LINUS
  • Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University
  • Who funds ST NICHOLAS CENTER FOR CHILDREN

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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–30%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lee Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lee Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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