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Quincy and Estine Lee Char Fnd Fb992 at a glance

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Quincy and Estine Lee Char Fnd Fb992

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$750k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.1MHuman Services$675kHealth$570kInternational$375kEducation$355kHousing & Shelter$275kCommunity Improvement$200kPhilanthropy$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RETINA FOUNDATIN OF THE SOUTHWEST$500,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF$50,000
COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN$50,000
FATHERS UPLIFT$50,000
LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE$50,000
HOMESTART INC$50,000
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 (FY20–25, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Arms of Hope Inc: $250k → 12%FATHERS UPLIFT: $50k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $50k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $25k → 16%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 7 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$2.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+76%

Still filing today

86%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +18%
  • GF
    Gazelle Foundation
    2× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +19% · 31% of their budget
  • PI
    PROUNITAS INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +144%
  • AO
    ARMS OF HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +89%
  • CM
    CASA MARIANELLA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +29%
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
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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2
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
3
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
4
Connectability

ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.

Human Services
5
Endeavors Unlimited Inc

Endeavors unlimited's mission is to improve the quality of life for vulnerable populations by providing integrated, competitive, inclusive employment and job supportive services to help them sustain employment.

Human Services
6
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

—
7
Advocates for Family Peace

To improve lives by ending domestic violence.

Human Services
8
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

—
9
Partnership Housing Inc

Partnership housing, inc. brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
10
Well Aware Inc

Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.

International
11
Center for Immigrant Progress

The organizations primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational.

—
12
Inclusive Communities Project

Promote fair and affordable housing for low income families, free from the vestiges of segregation and discrimination.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Todos Juntos Learning Center. 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

18 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. 18 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $1,100,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKCASA MARIANELLA INC: $200,000 · OtherCASA MARIANELLA INCTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONPregnancy Care Center: $70,000 · Other+4 more: $120,000 · Other+4 moreRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $500,000 · HealthRETINA FOUNDAT…ARMS OF HOPE: $250,000 · Human ServicesARMS OF HOP…UNCORNERED INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesUNCORNERED …FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $50,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS UPL…Gazelle Foundation: $300,000 · PhilanthropySLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $300,000 · Housing & ShelterPROUNITAS INC: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementHomeStart Inc: $75,000 · Community ImprovementCTC INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,000 · EducationTodos Juntos Learning Center: $50,000 · EducationALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $25,000 · Education
Other$1,590,000Health$500,000Human Services$375,000Philanthropy$300,000Housing & Shelter$300,000Youth Development$300,000Community Improvement$275,000Education$200,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $1,100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGazelle Foundation: $300,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $300,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetARMS OF HOPE: $250,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetPROUNITAS INC: $250,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC: $200,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC: $200,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCTC INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNCORNERED INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPregnancy Care Center: $70,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetTodos Juntos Learning Center: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncTrefler FoundationThe Devonshire Founda…The Klarman Family Fo…Liberty Mutual Founda…Austin Community Foun…Eastern Bank Foundati…Fidelity FoundationThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Trefler Foundation · The Devonshire Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Quincy and Estine Lee Char Fnd Fb992 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quincy and Estine Lee Char Fnd Fb992. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
  • Uncornered Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated: 22% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Kitchen Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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