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Patrick P Lee Foundation at a glance

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Patrick P Lee Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$6.0MHealth$5.0MPhilanthropy$988kReligion$635kHuman Services$405kEmployment$395kHousing & Shelter$390kArts & Culture$356kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $638k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$24,641
Median grant
8
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUILD PROMISE$250,000
SPECTRUM HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES$200,000
OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$122,000
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$110,406
UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE INC$92,400
Individual grant recipient$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES OF ITHACA$65,000
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$63,672
ECMC FOUNDATION$51,600
DAEMEN UNIVERSITY$50,000
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY$50,000
SALLIE MAE$48,034
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO$47,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $952k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MARION COUNTY COMMUNION ON YOUTH: $570 → 16%CANOPY OF NEIGHBORS INC: $10k → 18%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%BROTHERS OF MERCY SACRED HEART HOME: $250 → 13%GATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC: $1k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF BUFFALO: $87k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $150k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $150k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $150k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $3k → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%BUILD PROMISE: $250k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Patrick P Lee Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Patrick P Lee Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 48 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
44

Total granted

$11M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+26%

Still filing today

63%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $893k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +81%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $806k · revenue +24%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    8× · 2017–2024 · $788k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • UF
    UB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $260k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $182k
  • INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -15%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is Accessible Academics Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 110 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
44/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,315,037 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $805,701 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITYRochester Institute of Technology: $788,377 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $769,424 · EducationUniversity at Buffalo Foundation IncD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $299,861 · EducationD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITYRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $172,956 · Education+13 more: $905,229 · Education+13 moreIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES OF WNY: $407,500 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES OF WNYBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $400,000 · OtherBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INCUB FOUNDATION: $259,982 · OtherUB FOUNDATIONWNEDWBFO: $234,622 · OtherWNEDWBFOSPECTRUM HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $182,170 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF NURSING: $174,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherSCATTERGOOD FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Other+51 more: $1,407,684 · Other+51 moreUNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE INC: $753,250 · HealthUNIVERSITY PSYCHIATR…ECMC FOUNDATION INC: $456,399 · HealthECMC FOUNDATION INCHOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY: $301,000 · HealthHOUSING OPTIONS MADE…BRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $300,600 · HealthBRING CHANGE 2 MINDSUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC: $251,694 · HealthSUICIDE PREVENTION &…HORIZON HEALTH SERVICES: $235,925 · HealthHORIZON HEALTH SERVI…FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF ITHACA INC: $150,000 · HealthFAMILY & CHILDREN'S …+7 more: $204,300 · Health+7 moreOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $760,085 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $225,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $94,397 · PhilanthropyCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $452,600 · Human ServicesBUILD PROMISE INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $149,570 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $86,812 · Human Services+5 more: $12,520 · Human ServicesBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $200,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC: $127,400 · Religion
Education$5,056,585Other$4,216,208Health$2,653,168Philanthropy$1,079,482Human Services$951,502Arts & Culture$350,000Religion$127,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,315,037 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $805,701 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $788,377 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $769,424 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $760,085 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE INC: $753,250 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetECMC FOUNDATION INC: $456,399 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $452,600 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $400,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY: $301,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $300,600 over 3y, 10% of budgetD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $299,861 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC: $251,694 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBUILD PROMISE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHORIZON HEALTH SERVICES: $235,925 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $172,956 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $164,999 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $163,058 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF ITHACA INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $149,570 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC: $127,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAEMEN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $94,397 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $87,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $86,812 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHRISTIAN COUNSELING MINISTRIES WESTERNNEWYORK INC: $55,330 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC: $51,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $50,631 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $50,411 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $50,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $50,087 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPEER WEST INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetALFRED STATE COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $48,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMPEER ROCHESTER INC: $16,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanopy of Neighbors Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAZENOVIA RECOVERY SYSTEMS INC: $7,757 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMESPACE CORPORATION: $5,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HOPE CORPS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ECMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY ↗
  • Who funds BRING CHANGE 2 MIND ↗
  • Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILD PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZON HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF ITHACA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Mother Cabrini Health…The John R Oishei Fou…The Peter and Elizabe…First Niagara Foundat…The Western New York …Health Foundation for…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…James H Cummings Foun…The Margaret L Wendt …United Way of Buffalo…Foundation for Jewish…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY49.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Patrick P Lee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patrick P Lee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 110 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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The unnamed billions
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home