Florida · Private foundation
The Lee Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $108k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 74
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $108k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $102k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $100k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $93k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $85k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 74 | $73k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lighthouse Central Florida Inc | $19,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Michelee Puppets Inc | $19,250 | 6 | 2% |
| Orlando Day Nursery Associationinc | $18,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Winter Park Day Nursery Inc | $17,340 | 7 | 0% |
| Florida Leadership Venture | $16,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Southeastern Food Bank Inc | $14,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Grand Avenue Economic Community Dev | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Impower Inc | $13,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc | $12,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Orlando Union Rescue Mission Inc | $12,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($261k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lee Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Central Florida Foundation · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Heart of Florida United Way Inc · Orlando Health Inc · The Galloway Foundation · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta · Adventist Health SystemSunbelt Inc · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · Central Florida Womens League Foundation
How this is measured
About The Lee Foundation
- How much does The Lee Foundation give?
- The Lee Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $108,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 74 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Lee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Human Services (16%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are The Lee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lighthouse Central Florida Inc ($20k), Michelee Puppets Inc ($19k), Orlando Day Nursery Associationinc ($18k).
- Does The Lee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Florida Foundation, The Dr P Phillips Foundation, Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im.
- Where is The Lee Foundation based?
- The Lee Foundation is based in FL.
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