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Micah Lee Foundation Nfp

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$850
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 16
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$506k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Micah Lee Foundation Nfp funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
ReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving18$42k39%
FY202316$43k50%
FY20228$32k13%
FY202110$31k30%
FY202016$23kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$83kReligion$72kPhilanthropy$9kCivil Rights$3kRecreation & Sports$2kHuman Services$1kYouth Development$850Health$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dreams Indeed International$50,00052%
Telos Group Inc$27,00051%
Serge Global Inc$19,00050%
Mt Airy Center$8,9001n/a
National Christian Foundation Inc$7,65030%
Asha Partners$5,53520%
Common Ground Consultants Inc$5,00011%
Bosko$4,00012%
Arrabon Inc$4,00050%
A Jewish Voice for Peace$3,39130%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDreams Indeed International: $50,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTelos Group Inc: $27,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSerge Global Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Christian Foundation Inc: $7,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAsha Partners: $5,535 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommon Ground Consultants Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBosko: $4,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetArrabon Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetA Jewish Voice for Peace: $3,391 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Children's Ministry: $3,340 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Immersion: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetResourcing Christian Education International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGovernor's Leadership Forum: $850 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChurches for Middle East Peace: $575 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGofundmeorg: $555 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetExodus World Service: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Nazareth Project: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Parents Circle - Families Forum: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe International Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPraying Pelican Missions: $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Combatants for Peace Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLight of Love Ministry: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFellowship Foundation Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Action and Contemplation: $95 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 25.

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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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA13.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Micah Lee Foundation Nfp

How much does Micah Lee Foundation Nfp give?
Micah Lee Foundation Nfp reported 19 grants totaling $42,560 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Micah Lee Foundation Nfp fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (48%), Religion (42%), Philanthropy (5%).
Who are Micah Lee Foundation Nfp's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Dreams Indeed International ($50k), Telos Group Inc ($27k), Serge Global Inc ($19k).
Does Micah Lee Foundation Nfp fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Micah Lee Foundation Nfp accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Micah Lee Foundation Nfp?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Micah Lee Foundation Nfp based?
Micah Lee Foundation Nfp is based in IL.

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 37 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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