Georgia · Private foundation
The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $455k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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 | 13 | $395k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $350k | 88% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $856k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $762k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $785k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $715k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $607k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $500k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $215,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc | $190,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Shepherd Center Foundation Inc | $185,000 | 5 | 47% |
| Eagle Ranch Inc | $180,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Must Ministries Inc | $180,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Good Samaritan Health Center Inc | $165,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Crossroads Community Ministries Inc | $160,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Table on Delk Inc | $160,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Atlanta Union Mission Corporation | $150,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated | $140,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Cobb Community Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Lucia and Mark Wilton Charitable Foundation Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · Tuw Thomas H Pitts
How this is measured
Compare The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation with peer funders
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About The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation
- How much does The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation give?
- The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $455,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Arts & Culture (16%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc ($215k), Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc ($190k), Shepherd Center Foundation Inc ($185k).
- Does The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Atl Fdn-W Peters Main.
- Where is The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation based?
- The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation is based in GA.
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