Missouri · Private foundation
Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 8
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $629k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $30k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $26k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $30k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $35k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $30k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Child's Haven Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Youthbase Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Center for Developmental Services | $12,605 | 3 | 0% |
| Upstate Warrior Solution Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Servants for Sight | $12,500 | 3 | 1% |
| South Carolina Children's Theatre | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Ministries | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lead Collective Inccha | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of Greenville Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Carolina Youth Symphony | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Child's Haven Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Youthbase Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Center for Developmental Services | $12,605 | 3 | 0% |
| Upstate Warrior Solution Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Servants for Sight | $12,500 | 3 | 1% |
| South Carolina Children's Theatre | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Ministries | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lead Collective Inccha | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of Greenville Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Carolina Youth Symphony | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Greenville Civic Chorale Association | $10,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Greenville Symphony Association | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools of South Carolina | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fine Arts Center Partners | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Museum & Gallery Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Senior Action Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenville Tech Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenville Center for Creative Arts | $4,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Healing Species Inc | $4,500 | 1 | 2% |
| YMCA of Greenville | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cancer for College | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Neighborhood Cancer Connection | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert and Ruth K 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: Scsymmes Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · W W Burgiss Charities Inc · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
About Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation
- How much does Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation give?
- Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Health (24%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: A Child's Haven Inc ($15k), Youthbase Inc ($15k), Center for Developmental Services ($13k).
- Does Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scsymmes Foundation, The Jolley Foundation, John I Smith Charities Inc.
- Where is Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation based?
- Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation is based in MO.
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