California · Private foundation
Shimada Lee Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Shimada Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 5 | $3k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $4k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $3k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $6k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $2k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $6k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $4k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $3k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture Christian Church | $17,020 | 8 | n/a |
| Institute for Principle Studies | $3,080 | 8 | 0% |
| The International Foundation | $735 | 1 | 0% |
| New Century Educators Inc | $665 | 4 | 0% |
| Rescue- Freedom International | $480 | 1 | 0% |
| Answers in Genesis Inc | $350 | 3 | 0% |
| Living on the Edge Ministries Inc | $350 | 3 | 0% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Church of the Chimes | $200 | 2 | n/a |
| Promise Keepers | $170 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture Christian Church | $17,020 | 8 | n/a |
| Institute for Principle Studies | $3,080 | 8 | 0% |
| The International Foundation | $735 | 1 | 0% |
| New Century Educators Inc | $665 | 4 | 0% |
| Rescue- Freedom International | $480 | 1 | 0% |
| Answers in Genesis Inc | $350 | 3 | 0% |
| Living on the Edge Ministries Inc | $350 | 3 | 0% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Church of the Chimes | $200 | 2 | n/a |
| Promise Keepers | $170 | 3 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| The Freedom Story | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| The King's Academy | $91 | 2 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Foothill-Deanza Community Colleges Foundation | $20 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shimada 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Shimada Lee Foundation
- How much does Shimada Lee Foundation give?
- Shimada Lee Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $3,360 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Shimada Lee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (73%), Education (13%), Social Science (7%).
- Who are Shimada Lee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Venture Christian Church ($17k), Institute for Principle Studies ($3k), The International Foundation ($735).
- Does Shimada Lee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shimada Lee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shimada Lee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Shimada Lee Foundation based?
- Shimada Lee Foundation is based in CA.
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