· Private foundation
The Frank and Lillian Lee 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANGELICAL FORMOSAN CHURCH OF HH | $10,700 |
| NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN | $1,000 |
| STREAM OF PRAISE MUSIC MINISTRIES | $500 |
| CEDAR MUSIC MINISTRY | $500 |
| CHRISTOPHER SUN EVANGELISTIC ASSN | $300 |
| LA OPEN TABLE TENNIS | $300 |
| LA LITTLE ANGELS CHILDREN'S CHORALE | $300 |
| LOGOS EVANGELICAL SEMINARY | $300 |
| GLOBAL LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER | $300 |
| FAMILY KEEPERS INC | $300 |
| TOUCH LIFE MISSION | $300 |
| AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST | $200 |
| SAINT NECTARIOS ORTHODOX CHURCH | $200 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSITAL | $10 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $810 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NANORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +109%
- SOSTREAM OF PRAISE MUSIC MINISTRIES8× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +63%
- FKFAMILY KEEPERS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- PVPOMONA VALLEY HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $300
- LLLIFE LIGHT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $200 · revenue -21%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR TAIWANESE STUDIESone grant, 2018 · $200
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Help churches in china fulfill the great commission through training emerging christian leaders. train leaders in evangelism, evangelistic preaching, pastoral care and leadership through seminaries and bible school in china. distribute…
The specific purpose of this corporation is tosupport, train & develop pastors, ministers, and church leaders for the Evangelical Formosan Church and other Christian denominations.
Christian Ministry Activities
ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally
To assist small Chinese churches in growth, breakthrough, and support ministers financially; to advance God's kingdom ministry via multimedia.
Religious training: to assist the church in asia by training its leaders and equipping them to train others.
The organization is a missionary sending/sponsoring organizations that engage in Christian evangelism and training leaders for the churches in SE Asia
We are a Christian organization. The mission of this ministry is to preach the Gospel to all nations through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, declare God's glory among the nations and His marvelous deeds.
Religious
To support our ministry in Taipei in their mission of sharing the Gospel with Chinese people, assisting other churches and Non-Governmental Organizations in Taiwan.
To edify and make disciples of mainland china and overseas chinese christians to become devoted to only one great person: jesus christ the lord and savior and be motivated by only one greater purpose: building up his church for his glory
To reach out to the chinese worldwide in local evangelism and foreign missions. this purpose is facilitated through the use of missionaries, evangelism training and literature.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds STREAM OF PRAISE MUSIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TOUCH LIFE MISSION DR GORDON S LEE ↗
- Who funds Logos Evangelical Seminary ↗
- Who funds FAMILY KEEPERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds LA OPEN TABLE TENNIS ↗
- Who funds LIFE LIGHT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Frank and Lillian Lee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank and Lillian Lee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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