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Matthew D and Katherine H 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.

$120k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 16
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthReligionInternationalFood & NutritionEducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving7$95k14%
FY202313$432k8%
FY202214$544k36%
FY202116$357k44%
FY20209$221k44%
FY201910$394k30%
FY201810$872kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.1MInternational$826kReligion$628kHealth$205kPhilanthropy$115kHuman Services$73kArts & Culture$10kFood & Nutrition$5k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
SD
OH
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hufs Foundation of Southern California$702,000578%
Global Fund for Forgotten People Order of Malta$410,000445%
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America Inc$200,0002n/a
Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation$171,0006n/a
Sovereign Military Order of Malta Federal Association USA$167,2887n/a
Little Sisters of Holy Family Inc$100,0005n/a
Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington Inc$70,00070%
Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity$50,0002n/a
Order of Malta Worldwide Relief Malteser International Americas$40,00041%
Our Lady of Mercy Church & School$40,0002n/a
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All grantees of Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hufs Foundation of Southern California$702,000578%
Global Fund for Forgotten People Order of Malta$410,000445%
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America Inc$200,0002n/a
Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation$171,0006n/a
Sovereign Military Order of Malta Federal Association USA$167,2887n/a
Little Sisters of Holy Family Inc$100,0005n/a
Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington Inc$70,00070%
Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity$50,0002n/a
Order of Malta Worldwide Relief Malteser International Americas$40,00041%
Our Lady of Mercy Church & School$40,0002n/a
Holy Cross Hospital Inc$20,00030%
The Korea Society$20,00011%
Korean American Cultural Committee$10,0001n/a
The Mercy Health Clinic Inc$10,00020%
Shrine of St Jude$10,0001n/a
British Schools & Universities Foundation Inc$6,64010%
Center of Care Inc$6,00035%
Poor Roberts Mission$5,00012%
Center of Care Foundation Inc$4,00023%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$3,00010%
Kowin America Foundation for Education and Culture Inc$2,0001n/a
Dakota State University Foundation$1,00010%
Ewtn Publishing Inc$1,00010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($866k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHufs Foundation of Southern California: $702,000 over 5y, 78% of budgetGlobal Fund for Forgotten People Order of Malta: $410,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetKorean Community Service Center of Greater Washington Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOrder of Malta Worldwide Relief Malteser International Americas: $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHoly Cross Hospital Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Korea Society: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Mercy Health Clinic Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBritish Schools & Universities Foundation Inc: $6,640 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter of Care Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetPoor Roberts Mission: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCenter of Care Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetEternal Word Television Network Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDakota State University Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEwtn Publishing Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 14.

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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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation

How much does Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation give?
Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), International (28%), Religion (21%).
Who are Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Hufs Foundation of Southern California ($702k), Global Fund for Forgotten People Order of Malta ($410k), Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America Inc ($200k).
Does Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Matthew D and Katherine H 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 Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation based?
Matthew D and Katherine H Lee Foundation is based in DE.

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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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