How much did The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

children'shistory

2020

covid response

2021

scholarshiphistorychildrens

2022

childrenshistory

2023

childhoodchildrenshistory

2024

childhoodscholarshipchildrenshistory

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $7k
$10k–50k34 grants · $830k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$21M

Total assets

Largest grants

Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta Fo$40,000
Shepherd Center Foundation$40,000
Woodruff Arts Center$35,000
The Good Samaritan Health Center$35,000
Atlanta Community Food Bank$35,000
Atlanta Botanical Garden$30,000
Wesley Woods Foundation$25,000
Hope Atlanta$25,000
Sheltering Arms$25,000
MUST Ministries$25,000
Snior Citizens ServMeals on Wheels$25,000
Hosea Helps$25,000
Georgia Public Broadcasting$25,000
Atlanta Mission$25,000
Crossroads Community Ministries$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.6M · 56 repeat orgs$511k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.6M

$476k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+35%

Still filing today

57%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

AC
Atlanta Community Food Bank
7× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +78%
SC
Shepherd Center Foundation
5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +1364% · 47% of their budget
MM
MUST Ministries Inc
7× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +154%

Funded once

GS
Good Samaritan Health Center-Atlana
one grant, 2020 · $35k
FC
Frazer Center
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +17%
AB
Atlanta Botantical Garden
one grant, 2021 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Georgia tech research corporation advances research and technological development at georgia tech as it continually seeks to advance society and the global competitiveness of georgia and the nation. gtrc supports and promotes research…

Health

Adventist Health System Georgia Inc

The provision of medical care to the community through the operation of two hospitals.

Health

Atlanta Association of Legal

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Georgia Economic Development

The foundation functions as an advocate of economic development for the state of georgia.

Community Improvement

Atlanta Land Trust Inc

TO DELIVER AND STEWARD PERMANENTLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING to support inclusive, equitable communities near the Atlanta beltline and other targeted areas in the city of atlanta.

Housing & Shelter

Medlink Georgia Inc

Medlink georgia is a federally qualified community health center in north east georgia that serves over 69,000 patients. medlink georgia not only treats illness, but also provides preventive services to keep patients well. medlink is a…

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Medical Association of Georgia

The foundation is a public charity enabling georgia physicians to support and engage in charitable and educational projects affecting medicine and public health.

Health

United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc

United way of greater atlanta engages and brings together people and resources to drive sustainable and equitable improvements in the well-being of children, families, and individuals in the community. for individuals and organizations…

Philanthropy

Georgia Rehabilitation Institute Inc

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The Atlanta Girls' School Inc

Inspiring girls to lead lives of purpose.

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Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter

Georgia Alliance for Breast Cancer

Support Georgians by raising money for breast health and breast cancer programs.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Candid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/46

the rest of the field

18%

3,781/21,407

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.

05the grantee network

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/45

Grantees still filing

35/45

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,021,395Human Services$551,500Education$445,000Health$437,500Food & Nutrition$225,000Philanthropy$211,520Arts & Culture$170,000

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.

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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA43.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation The Ray M and Mary E 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.

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Shepherd Center Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~260 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 14.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 201238224 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Shepherd Center Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 260 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 47% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation?

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The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ray M and Mary E Lee Foundation?

More from the funding graph