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The Lee Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Orlando Health Foundation | $5,000 |
| Lighthouse Central Florida | $5,000 |
| IDignity | $4,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club Central Florida Inc | $3,500 |
| Alzheimer Resource Center Inc | $3,000 |
| Orlando Day Nursery | $3,000 |
| Pathlight Home | $3,000 |
| Orlando Union Rescue Mission | $3,000 |
| Seniors First Inc | $3,000 |
| Christian Help | $3,000 |
| Christian Service Center for Homeless | $3,000 |
| Orlando Family Stage | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $3,000 |
| Winter Park Day Nursery | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 10 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LCLIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +74%
- MPMICHELEE PUPPETS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $19k · revenue +38%
- ODORLANDO DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATIONINC7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FRFREEDOM RIDE INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -50%
- 4F4ROOTS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +132%
- CFCenter for Indep Livingone grant, 2022 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Our mission is to provide exceptional dialysis care and services to individuals with end-stage kidney disease throughout central florida. we are dedicated to expanding access to treatment and ensuring all those in need receive quality…
See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
Disability rights florida advocates, educates, investigates, and litigates to protect and advance the rights, dignity, equal opportunities, self-determination and choices for all people with disabilities.
Lutheran services florida brings god's healing, hope, and help to people in need in the name of jesus christ.
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.
The mission of suncoast hospice foundation is to advance the understanding, participation, and support of the mission and programs of suncoast hospice and its affilated organizations, honoring the community's sacred trust through sound…
Orlando Center for Justice, Inc.s mission is to bridge the access to justice gap in Florida for newcomers by helping these underserved communities navigate the legal system through education and innovation. We also walk alongside them,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 157 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MICHELEE PUPPETS INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTURE ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Grand Avenue Economic Community Dev ↗
- Who funds IMPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HELP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Golden Retriever Rescue of Mid Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Seniors First Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWS 4 LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds IDIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMARADERIE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI GREATER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD CHILDREN'S RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lee Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc — 34% of income from government
- United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Idignity Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Impower Inc — 5% of income from government
- Flagler Humane Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Enzian Theater Inc — 1% of income from government
- Spca Inc — 0% of income from government
- Nami Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.