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.

The Lee and Yum Foundation

The Lee and Yum Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$120k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% 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

02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $7k
$10k–50k3 grants · $85k
$50k–250k3 grants · $270k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Binghamton University	$120,000
Princeton University	$100,000
UHS Foundation	$50,000
BCC Foundation	$40,000
Lourdes Foundation	$35,000
American Legion Post 357	$10,000
Broome County Arts Council	$6,000
Manheim Township School District	$600

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 22 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$293k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

+49%

Still filing today

27%

13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthPublic BenefitArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

UH
UNITED HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $605k · revenue +129%
SA
SEVERANCE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
3× · 2017–2020 · $130k · revenue +145%
AL
AMERICAN LEGION POST 357
4× · 2021–2024 · $53k · revenue +9%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $90k
AE
AMERICAN EDUCATION SERVICE
one grant, 2019 · $37k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $32k

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.

04Its field

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.

Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nysarc Inc Broome-Chenango- Tioga Counties Chapter; the most unlike its peers is Twin Tiers Honor Flight Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 70 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/13

Grantees still filing

9/13

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,924,576Health$605,250Education$335,394Arts & Culture$11,000Public Benefit$5,000Recreation & Sports$2,000Human Services$2,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lee and Yum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lee and Yum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home