· Private foundation
The Norman & Sadie Lee 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $723k
- $250k+2 grants · $812k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC | $412,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $400,000 |
| MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST | $212,750 |
| LOS ANGELES OPERA | $160,000 |
| CENTER THEATRE GROUP | $125,000 |
| USC ASSOCIATES | $115,000 |
| VENICE FAMILY CLINIC | $60,000 |
| SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM (AFMDA) | $25,000 |
| LUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE | $20,000 |
| ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH | $10,000 |
| DISABLED SPORTS EASTERN SIERRA | $10,000 |
| LIFEMOVES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION - STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of The Norman & Sadie Lee Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 15 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; $14k 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
- LALOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +14%
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC7× · 2017–2024 · $420k · revenue +110%- SCSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $375k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- USUK STEM CELL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $67k
- BTBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +28%
- ICISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +133%
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.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…
Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Clsa advances californias world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses.
The organization's mission is to represent the ethical members of the rental housing industry in all aspects of government affairs within the state of california, and to provide information, products and services which contribute to the…
To improve the skills, wages, and working conditions of workers in the tourism industry and to assure that the benefits of tourism contribute equitably to the economic and social development of all communities in the greater los angeles…
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited Inc. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 60 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 LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS MAMMOTH ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego ↗
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EXHALE TO INHALE INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Burn Institute ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds REEL RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds AL OTRO LADO ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Christian Camping Association 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: Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · California Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Norman & Sadie 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.