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The Lee and Yum 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.

$362k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
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 The Lee and Yum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving8$362k0%
FY202310$374k40%
FY202210$369k40%
FY202117$457k53%
FY202018$448k61%
FY201915$330k53%
FY201817$276k59%
FY201724$269kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.1MHealth$664kPublic Benefit$58kHuman Services$16kArts & Culture$12kRecreation & Sports$10kReligion$8kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Health Services Foundation Inc$605,25086%
The Trustees of Princeton University$200,00020%
Severance Alumni Association Inc$130,00038%
American Legion Post 357$53,00048%
Broome County Arts Council$11,00021%
Nysarc Inc Broome-Chenango- Tioga Counties Chapter$10,6401n/a
Broome Community College$10,0001n/a
Twin Tiers Honor Flight Inc$5,00023%
Elmira College$3,39420%
Catholic Schools of Broome County$2,5001n/a
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All grantees of The Lee and Yum Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Health Services Foundation Inc$605,25086%
The Trustees of Princeton University$200,00020%
Severance Alumni Association Inc$130,00038%
American Legion Post 357$53,00048%
Broome County Arts Council$11,00021%
Nysarc Inc Broome-Chenango- Tioga Counties Chapter$10,6401n/a
Broome Community College$10,0001n/a
Twin Tiers Honor Flight Inc$5,00023%
Elmira College$3,39420%
Catholic Schools of Broome County$2,5001n/a
Gannon University$2,00010%
Camp Freedom Inc$2,00010%
The Family & Children's Society Inc$2,00010%
Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus$1,8801n/a
St Petersburg Country ClubInc$1,50010%
Manheim Township School Dist$1,2143n/a
The New School of Lancaster Dba New School Montessori$1,00010%

Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lee and Yum Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Health Services Foundation Inc: $605,250 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeverance Alumni Association Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 357: $53,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetBroome County Arts Council: $11,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTwin Tiers Honor Flight Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetElmira College: $3,394 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGannon University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Freedom Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family & Children's Society Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Petersburg Country ClubInc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe New School of Lancaster Dba New School Montessori: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 12.

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 Tsb Foundation IncNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Tsb Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lee and Yum Foundation

How much does The Lee and Yum Foundation give?
The Lee and Yum Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $361,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Lee and Yum Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (73%), Health (23%), Public Benefit (2%).
Who are The Lee and Yum Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Health Services Foundation Inc ($605k), The Trustees of Princeton University ($200k), Severance Alumni Association Inc ($130k).
Does The Lee and Yum Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lee and Yum 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 The Lee and Yum Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Tsb Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is The Lee and Yum Foundation based?
The Lee and Yum Foundation is based in NY.

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 70 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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