New York · Private foundation
Patrick P Lee Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $24,641
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $45M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Patrick P Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $954k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 40 | $1.8M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $2.1M | 55% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $2.1M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.7M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $1.4M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $1.7M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $1.3M | 43% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Rochester | $1,315,037 | 8 | 0% |
| St Louis University | $805,701 | 7 | 0% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $788,377 | 8 | 0% |
| University at Buffalo Foundation Inc | $769,424 | 7 | 0% |
| University Psychiatric Practice Inc | $753,250 | 7 | 1% |
| Ecmc Foundation Inc | $456,399 | 7 | 5% |
| City Mission Society Inc | $452,600 | 4 | 1% |
| Bestself Behavioral Health Inc | $400,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Housing Options Made Easy | $301,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Bring Change 2 Mind | $300,600 | 3 | 10% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Patrick P Lee Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc
How this is measured
About Patrick P Lee Foundation
- How much does Patrick P Lee Foundation give?
- Patrick P Lee Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $1,945,277 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Patrick P Lee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (35%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Patrick P Lee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Rochester ($1.3M), St Louis University ($806k), Rochester Institute of Technology ($788k).
- Does Patrick P Lee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Patrick P Lee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Patrick P Lee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation.
- Where is Patrick P Lee Foundation based?
- Patrick P Lee Foundation is based in NY.
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