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The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$236k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,500
Organizations funded a year
5 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$179k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther
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 arriving23$234k17%
FY202324$275k17%
FY202215$167k40%
FY202122$246k23%
FY202023$204k65%
FY201912$273k50%
FY20187$266k57%
FY20175$287kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$652kEducation$474kPublic Benefit$170kInternational$86kCrime & Legal$65kHuman Services$23kYouth Development$18kPhilanthropy$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
CA
CO
MO
AZ
NC
DC
LA
FL

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
Providence Academy$235,00080%
Luther College$130,00030%
Center of the American Experiment$92,50061%
Tanzania Health Partnership$85,00066%
Alpha News$65,20055%
Upper Midwest Law Center$65,00052%
MAZAHUA VALLEY MINISTRIEs$56,00068%
Hope Academy Inc$50,60040%
Lamplighters International$26,50053%
The Heritage Foundation$12,60040%
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All grantees of The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Providence Academy$235,00080%
Luther College$130,00030%
Center of the American Experiment$92,50061%
Tanzania Health Partnership$85,00066%
Alpha News$65,20055%
Upper Midwest Law Center$65,00052%
MAZAHUA VALLEY MINISTRIEs$56,00068%
Hope Academy Inc$50,60040%
Lamplighters International$26,50053%
The Heritage Foundation$12,60040%
Prager University Foundation$12,50040%
Young Life$10,00020%
The Charlemagne Institute$7,00020%
Ukrainian American Community Center Inc$5,00010%
Poetice$5,00010%
The Fellowship of Ailbe$4,00032%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$3,00030%
Scottsdale Bible Church$2,8003n/a
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc$2,00010%
Friends of Ngong Road$1,00010%
The Colson Center for Christian Worldview$50010%
First and Calvary Presbyterian Church$5001n/a
Wishes & More$40010%
La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church$3001n/a
Salvation Army$2501n/a
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$15010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProvidence Academy: $235,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLuther College: $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment: $92,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTanzania Health Partnership: $85,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetAlpha News: $65,200 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetUpper Midwest Law Center: $65,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetMAZAHUA VALLEY MINISTRIEs: $56,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetHope Academy Inc: $50,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLamplighters International: $26,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $12,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Life: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charlemagne Institute: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUkrainian American Community Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPoetice: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Fellowship of Ailbe: $4,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Ngong Road: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWishes & More: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 22.

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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 Minneapolis FoundationMN19.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Pine Rock Foundation Inc · Michael J & Karen B Frey Foundation · Caridad Corporation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · United Way Worldwide · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Mightycause Charitable 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 Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation

How much does The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation give?
The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $235,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Education (24%), Public Benefit (9%).
Who are The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Providence Academy ($235k), Luther College ($130k), Center of the American Experiment ($93k).
Does The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Pine Rock Foundation Inc, Michael J & Karen B Frey Foundation.
Where is The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation based?
The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 50 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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