· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| STONEBRIDGE CHURCH INC | $50,000 |
| THE TABLE ON DELK INC | $50,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MARIETTA | $50,000 |
| PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC | $25,000 |
| ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMIES INC | $25,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| EAGLE RANCH INC | $25,000 |
| THE EXTENSION INC | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FO | $25,000 |
| WESLEY WOODS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WILLIAM'S HOUSE INC | $25,000 |
| PARENTS WITH A PURPOSE INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $382k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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.
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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $215k · revenue +51%
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2023 · $190k · revenue +74%
EAGLE RANCH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MMMarietta Mentoring for Leadership Programgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +104%
- ESExtra Special People Incone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -35%
- GSGood Samaritan Health Center-Atlanaone grant, 2020 · $35k
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.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
Our mission is to create life-changing solutions for people with disabilities.
The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.
Acfb charitable investments, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Uyc Maritime Foundation Inc. 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 40 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 92 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 ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TABLE ON DELK INC ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Community Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Extension Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOPE ATLANTA 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: 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
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 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.
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.
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