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Mimi And Paul Lee 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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$333kHuman Services$58kArts & Culture$17kEducation$10kScience & Tech$5kHealth$4kCommunity Improvement$1kRecreation & Sports$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $41k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$580k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New York Christian Mission Church$41,000
COLAB Theater Group$2,000
Rolling Thunder Special Needs Progr$1,000
Chinese Christian Herald Crusades$1,000
Women of Wonder WOW Inc$500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%Chinese Christian Herald Crusades: $21k → 13%Center For All Abilities Inc: $14k → 17%Chinese Christian Herald Crusades: $3k → 13%Chinese Christian Herald Crusades: $2k → 13%Center For All Abilities Inc: $12k → 17%Chinese Christian Herald Crusades: $2k → 13%Do For One NYC: $1k → 17%Chinese Christian Herald Crusades: $1k → 13%Center For All Abilities Inc: $2k → 17%Chinese Christian Herald Crusades: $1k → 13%Chinese Christian Herald Crusades: $1k → 13%Chinese Christian Herald Crusades: $500 → 13%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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$414k · 10 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$414k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+44%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureScience & TechReligionEmploymentOther

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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR ALL ABILITIES INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $27k · revenue +45%
  • CL
    CO LAB THEATER GROUP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +276%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $300 · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • IC
    Iresearch Corporation
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • JS
    Jericho School Union Free School
    3× · 2019–2021 · $2k
  • AA
    AUTISM AWAKENING INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

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
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
2
City Access New York Inc

City access new york promotes lifelong access to educational, vocational & cultural programs. it identifies barriers to participation, in schools and in the community, and adopts content and delivery of programs to the diverse needs of…

Arts & Culture
3
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
California Spectrum Care Inc

California spectrum care has set out to create programs that serve all and any individual with developmental disabilities and that target the needs of every client on an individual basis.

Human Services
6
Central New York Quest Inc

Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.

Human Services
7
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
8
Science Communication Lab Inc

The science communication lab, formerly named ibiology, was incorporated on november 21, 2014, pursuant to the provisions of the general corporation law of the state of delaware (section 102). the science communication lab's mission is to…

Science & Tech
9
Council for Exceptional Children

The council for exceptional children cultivates, supports, and empowers education professionals who work with individuals with disabilities.

10
Easter Seals New York Inc

We provide services so that people with disabilities can live, learn, & work in our communities.

11
Complete Playground Inc

Complete playground is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing inclusive child, teen, and family development by bringing together neurodivergent and neurotypical children, teenagers, and their families in a shared environment of…

Recreation & Sports
12
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for All Abilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Women of Wonder Wow Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK CHRISTIAN MISSION CHURCH — $303,000 · OtherNEW YORK CHRISTIAN MISSION CHURCHWOW — $18,000 · Other+10 more — $26,300 · Other+10 moreCHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES INC — $30,980 · Human ServicesCHINESE CHRISTI…CENTER FOR ALL ABILITIES INC — $27,450 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR ALL …+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesCO LAB THEATER GROUP INC — $17,460 · Arts & CultureTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · EducationWOMEN OF WONDER WOW INC — $1,500 · ReligionSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC — $250 · Science & TechGood Job Angels Inc — $200 · Employment
Other$347,300Human Services$59,430Arts & Culture$17,460Education$2,500Religion$1,500Science & Tech$250Employment$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES INC — $30,980 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ALL ABILITIES INC — $27,450 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCO LAB THEATER GROUP INC — $17,460 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN OF WONDER WOW INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDo For One NYC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC — $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Job Angels Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ALL ABILITIES INC
  • Who funds CO LAB THEATER GROUP INC
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds WOMEN OF WONDER WOW INC
  • Who funds Do For One NYC
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC
  • Who funds Good Job Angels Inc

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Mimi And Paul Lee Foundation 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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