· Private foundation
The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $100,500 |
| PROVIDENCE ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT | $15,000 |
| TAKE CHARGE | $15,000 |
| UPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER | $15,000 |
| ALPHA NEWS | $10,200 |
| MAZAHUA VALLEY MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| LAMPLIGHTERS INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| TANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST BANK FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MN FAMILY INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| PRAGER U | $2,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPROVIDENCE ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +12%
- COCenter of the American Experiment6× · 2019–2024 · $93k · revenue +17%
- ANALPHA NEWS5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +285%
Funded once
- TCTHE CRU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $15k
- CCRUone grant, 2021 · $10k
- UAUKRAINIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -29%
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.
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.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The mission of crown college is to provide a biblically based education for christian leadership in the christian and missionary alliance, the church-at-large, and the world.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Liberty classical academy is an independent private school offering college-preparatory academics and christian faith in the classical tradition for minneapolis-st. paul students in preschool and kindergarten through the 12th grade.
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.
Preparing people for a life of learning, work, and service for Christ and His kingdom.
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 50 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Center of the American Experiment ↗
- Who funds TANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ALPHA NEWS ↗
- Who funds UPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAZAHUA VALLEY MINISTRIEs ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LAMPLIGHTERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds The Charlemagne Institute ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Poetice ↗
- Who funds THE FELLOWSHIP OF AILBE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD ↗
- Who funds The Colson Center for Christian Worldview ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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