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Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$117k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 24
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$3.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesPublic BenefitCrime & LegalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$117k9%
FY202322$182k27%
FY202224$310k17%
FY202124$297k42%
FY202016$155kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$340kHuman Services$218kHousing & Shelter$108kEducation$90kPublic Benefit$65kAnimals$50kInternational$50kCivil Rights$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MI
NY
CA
NE
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($498k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $86,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $77,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEnchanted Peach Children's Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDisabled Veterans National Foundation: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetClothes to Kids Inc: $29,390 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Ministries Inc: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNRA Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEgypt Shriners: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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Find your warmest path to Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc

How much does Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc give?
Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $117,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Human Services (20%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
Who are Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Shriners Hospitals for Children ($86k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($85k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($78k).
Does Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc based?
Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 39 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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