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Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$54kHealth$45kHuman Services$26kYouth Development$25kEducation$12kFood & Nutrition$10kReligion$10kAnimals$5k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$629k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED MINISTRIES$5,000
CAROLINA YOUTH SYMPHONY$5,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
FINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS$5,000
GREENVILLE CIVIC CHORALE ASSOCIATION$2,500
CANCER FOR COLLEGE$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 9%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES DBA CD: $6k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $5k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $3k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $2k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $8k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $5k → 10%SENIOR ACTION INC: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$137k · 12 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$137k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-18%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • YI
    YOUTHBASE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +74%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES
    3× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +23%
  • UW
    UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +213%

Funded once

  • CI
    Communities in Schools of South Carolina
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -19%
  • GT
    GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -12%
  • MG
    Museum & Gallery Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -28%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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2
Greenville Classical Academy

Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.

Education
3
Greenwood Community Theatre Inc

Greenwood community theatre aspires to enrich the community by creating and fostering professionalism and diversity in all its theatrical endeavors and experiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Greater Greenville Association of Realtors Inc

Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession

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5
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
6
Greenville Area Development Corporation

Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.

Community Improvement
7
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
8
Greenville Country Club Scholarship Foundation

To identify qualified applicants in order to provide scholarship grants for advanced career educational opportunities that may otherwise go unfulfilled.

Education
9
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
10
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…

Community Improvement
11
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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12
Greenville Learning Center

To provide a specialized and enriched education to children with learning disabilities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum & Gallery Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $11,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S …Carolina Youth Symphony — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCarolina Youth SymphonyGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $8,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCI…Museum & Gallery Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum & Gallery IncFINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERSGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS — $4,500 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREA…CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $12,605 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTA…UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTIO…SENIOR ACTION INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR ACTION INCHEALING SPECIES INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesHEALING SPECIES INCYMCA OF GREENVILLE — $3,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREENVILLEA Child's Haven Inc — $15,000 · OtherA Child's Haven IncGREENVILLE CIVIC CHORALE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · OtherGREENVILLE CIVIC CH…THE SALVATION ARMY — $5,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION — $2,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER…YOUTHBASE INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHBASE INCLEAD COLLECTIVE INCCHA — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAD COLLECTIVE…SERVANTS FOR SIGHT — $12,500 · HealthSERVANTS …CANCER FOR COLLEGE — $2,500 · HealthCANCER FO…Communities in Schools of South Carolina — $7,000 · EducationGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EducationMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED MINISTRIES — $10,000 · Religion
Arts & Culture$43,500Human Services$37,605Other$32,000Youth Development$25,000Health$15,000Education$12,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Religion$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetA Child's Haven Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHBASE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $12,605 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSERVANTS FOR SIGHT — $12,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCarolina Youth Symphony — $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGREENVILLE CIVIC CHORALE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEAD COLLECTIVE INCCHA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum & Gallery Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSENIOR ACTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS — $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEALING SPECIES INC — $4,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYMCA OF GREENVILLE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Scsymmes FoundationThe Jolley FoundationJohn I Smith Charitie…Scansource Charitable…Bill and Connie Timmo…Daniel-Mickel Foundat…Jean T and Heyward G …United Way of Greenvi…Dabo's All in Team Fo…W W Burgiss Charities…Elbert W Rogers Found…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Scsymmes FoundationMO39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Robert and Ruth K Lee Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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