· Private foundation
Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Jude Childrens Hospital | $10,000 |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $10,000 |
| Suncoast Hospice | $5,000 |
| Our Savior Lutheran Church Perp Tru | $5,000 |
| Consumers Union of the US | $5,000 |
| Pet Pal Animal Shelter of St Pete | $5,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $5,000 |
| Clothes to Kids | $5,000 |
| Boys Town | $5,000 |
| Southeastern Guide Dogs | $5,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $5,000 |
| Tunnel 2 Towers | $5,000 |
| Paralyzed Vets of America | $5,000 |
| Metropolitan Ministries | $5,000 |
| BBB Institute Marketplace Trust | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN5× · 2020–2024 · $86k · revenue +106%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +78%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- BIBBB Instiute Marketplace Trustone grant, 2023 · $10k
- DADisabled American Veteransone grant, 2021 · $6k
- ESEGYPT SHRINERSone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)
The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek…
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.
Dedicated to the mission of providing the best possible care and services for all children who come to us because of sickness and injury.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENCHANTED PEACH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EGYPT SHRINERS ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Richard D Lee and Vera M Lee Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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