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Micah Lee Foundation Nfp

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$83kReligion$72kPhilanthropy$9kCivil Rights$3kRecreation & Sports$2kHuman Services$1kYouth Development$850Health$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$850
Median grant
13
States reached
$506k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD NEW YORK$6,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$5,000
SERGE$5,000
COMMON GROUND CONSULTANTS INC$5,000
THE TELOS GROUP$4,000
ARABIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH$2,500
GLOBAL IMMERSION$1,000
ARRABON$1,000
GOVERNOR'S LEADERSHIP FORUM$850
MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S MINISTRY$600
WORLD VISION$300
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES$300
THE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$250
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PARENT'S CIRCLE FAMILIES FORUM$250
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GLOBAL IMMERSION: $1k → 12%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

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

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$145k · 14 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$145k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+61%

Still filing today

79%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesArts & 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

  • DI
    DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • TG
    Telos Group Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +128%
  • SG
    SERGE GLOBAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • MA
    MT AIRY CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • B
    BOSKOgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +365%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +19%

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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
Peacemaker Ministries

To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.

International
3
I58 Global

i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.

Human Services
4
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
5
International Partnerships Inc

To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.

Religion
6
Disciple Makers Network

To connect indigenous ministers with resources in fulfilling the Great Commission.

Religion
7
CrossTalk Global

CrossTalk Global is a Christian educational organization that empowers and trains global church leaders to effectively communicate the Scriptures and share the hope of Christ in their communities. These projects are carried out in the USA…

Religion
8
Global Faith Network
Human Services
9
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
10
JourneyPartners Inc

JourneyPartners is an ecumenical faith-based non-profit ministry, working nationally and internationally to develop networks and partnerships for mutual learning and spiritual growth, through cross-cultural immersion experiences,…

Education
11
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
12
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Churches for Middle East Peace and the most unlike its peers is The International Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,534

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

28 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 37 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 · InternationalDREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONALTelos Group Inc — $27,000 · InternationalTelos Group IncA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $3,391 · InternationalMOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S MINISTRY — $3,340 · International+5 more — $2,625 · InternationalSERGE GLOBAL INC — $19,000 · OtherSERGE GLOBAL INCGOOD SHEPHERD NEW YORK — $15,100 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD NEW YORKMT AIRY CENTER — $8,900 · OtherMT AIRY CENTERARABIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $7,500 · OtherARABIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH+9 more — $3,751 · Other+9 moreAsha Partners — $5,535 · ReligionAsha Partn…COMMON GROUND CONSULTANTS INC — $5,000 · ReligionCOMMON GRO…Arrabon Inc — $4,000 · ReligionArrabon In…Resourcing Christian Education International — $1,000 · ReligionResourcing…+2 more — $406 · ReligionNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $7,650 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG — $555 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM — $500 · PhilanthropyBOSKO — $4,000 · EducationAmplify Peace — $250 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC — $200 · EducationFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentGlobal Immersion — $1,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION — $95 · Arts & Culture
International$86,356Other$54,251Religion$15,941Philanthropy$8,705Education$4,450Youth Development$1,500Human Services$1,000Arts & Culture$95

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetArrabon Inc — $4,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOSKO — $4,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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 budgetWORLD VISION INC — $800 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NAZARETH PROJECT — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe International Foundation — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $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
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Renaissance Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Micah Lee Foundation Nfp 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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