· Private foundation
Roger and Clarissa Lee Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLDERNESS SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| RIEKES CENTER | $75,000 |
| ENNEAGRAM PRISON PROJECT | $30,000 |
| REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL | $25,000 |
| YALE | $25,000 |
| THE TAFT SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| PENINSULA BRIDGE | $25,000 |
| MENLO ANTHERON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +23% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- TTTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION7× · 2018–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +94%
- KFKEYS FAMILY DAY SCHOOL INC4× · 2018–2021 · $420k · revenue +42%
- HSHOLDERNESS SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LFLEE FAMILY GIFT FUNDone grant, 2024 · $3.3M
- SMSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +24%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $80k
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.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.
In a community where every student is known and needed, millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, service, stewardship, and curiosity.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The key school is founded upon the conviction that children are innately curious about themselves and the world; they want to learn, they want to discover, and they want to create. (continued on schedule o)
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
Harvard-westlake strives to be a diverse and inclusive community united by the joyful pursuit of educational excellence, living and learning with integrity, and purpose beyond ourselves.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Northstar Team Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KEYS FAMILY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Riekes Center for Human Enhancement ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) ↗
- Who funds THE KEHILLAH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MORY'S PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds ENNEAGRAM PRISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR TEAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Roger and Clarissa Lee Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% 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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