California · Private foundation
Lee Graff 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.
- $154k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Lee Graff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 11 | $154k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $146k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $119k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $125k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $133k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $165k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $159k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $156k | 11% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inner-City Arts | $395,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Break the Chain Kennel Kru Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 28% |
| Segerstrom Center for the Arts | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Genius School US | $51,000 | 2 | 45% |
| Holy Family Services Adoption and Foster Care | $40,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Choc Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Family Assistance Ministries | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Orange County Rescue Mission Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $16,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($430k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lee Graff Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lee Graff Foundation
- How much does Lee Graff Foundation give?
- Lee Graff Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $154,004 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lee Graff Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Animals (11%), Education (6%).
- Who are Lee Graff Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Inner-City Arts ($395k), Break the Chain Kennel Kru Inc ($95k), Segerstrom Center for the Arts ($90k).
- Does Lee Graff Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lee Graff 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 Graff Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, American Endowment Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Lee Graff Foundation based?
- Lee Graff Foundation is based in CA.
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