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The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc

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.

$5.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$300,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$999,350
Organizations funded a year
4 to 38
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$174M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$5.1M31%
FY20237$1.5M14%
FY20224$715k50%
FY20218$671k25%
FY20207$611k86%
FY201738$219kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.3MHealth$4.1MPhilanthropy$1.3MRecreation & Sports$305kHuman Services$22kEducation$20kSocial Science$5kEnvironment$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Musical Arts Association$950,00050%
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research$925,00030%
Washington National Opera$860,000567%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$700,00020%
New World Symphony Inc$600,00041%
Opera America Inc$500,00017%
Northwestern University$305,00020%
Sphinx Organization Inc$300,00014%
The Salzburg Festival Society Inc$10,0001n/a
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research$5,00010%
New York University$5,00010%
University of Miami$5,00010%
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc$5,00010%
South Florida Pbs Inc$5,00010%
Sherrill House Inc$2,50010%
Miami Dade College Foundation Inc$2,50010%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$2,50010%
The Murray Dranoff Foundation$2,50011%
American Museum of Natural History$2,50010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$2,50010%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$1,50010%
Zoo Miami Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Richard Wagner Society of New York Inc$1,00011%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States$1,00010%
The James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies Inc$1,0001n/a
The American Fund for Westminster Abbey$1,00010%
National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts$1,00010%
Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Good Shepherd Services$1,00010%
The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis Inc$1,00010%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation$1,00010%
Uss Constitution Museum Inc$1,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,00010%

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $950,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research: $925,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWashington National Opera: $860,000 over 5y, 67% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $700,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew World Symphony Inc: $600,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetOpera America Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetNorthwestern University: $305,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSphinx Organization Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAmerican Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSherrill House Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiami Dade College Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Murray Dranoff Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House of New York Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZoo Miami Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRichard Wagner Society of New York Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNational Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Fund for Westminster Abbey: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Hispanic Foundation for the Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Services: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUss Constitution Museum Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc

How much does The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc give?
The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $5,057,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Health (41%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Musical Arts Association ($950k), The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research ($925k), Washington National Opera ($860k).
Does The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc 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 The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ayco Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc based?
The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation Inc is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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