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Lee-Kahn Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,665
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,665
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$10k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Lee-Kahn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$2k0%
FY20244$8k0%
FY20233$6k0%
FY20224$12k50%
FY20217$30k57%
FY20208$25k50%
FY20195$18k40%
FY20187$15k57%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$31kFood & Nutrition$22kHealth$21kEducation$19kEnvironment$19kAnimals$15kArts & Culture$10kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lee-Kahn Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGive US the Floor: $22,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGeorgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSutter Bay Medical Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Watershed Council: $11,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKuumbwa Jazz Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothersbig Sisters Agency of Santa Cruz County Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMunson Healthcare Foundations: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPets for the Elderly Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAmerica's Vetdogs the Veterans K-9 Corps Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Collegiate School: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Cruz SPCA and Humane Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClean Oceans International: $1,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirchbark Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Wolf Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Community Foundation Santa Cruz CountyCA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lee-Kahn Foundation

How much does Lee-Kahn Foundation give?
Lee-Kahn Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,665 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lee-Kahn Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (22%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Health (15%).
Who are Lee-Kahn Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Give US the Floor ($23k), Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School ($17k), Sutter Bay Medical Foundation ($15k).
Does Lee-Kahn Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lee-Kahn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lee-Kahn Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County.
Where is Lee-Kahn Foundation based?
Lee-Kahn Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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