Florida · Nonprofit
LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,504,813 to it, the largest being SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST ($13,688,188). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The League Club Incshared funderslocal
- Vizient Inc Foundationportfolio match
- Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $3.1M → $5.7M.
28 of 153 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 153 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 58% · 2019 27% · 2020 34% · 2021 21% · 2022 28% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 153 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The League Club Incshared funderslocalFL · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 100 organizations near you
- Vizient Inc Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Envision Healthcare Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Driven Brands Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Capital Health Plan Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Essential Healthcare Partnerships Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Incshared fundersPA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphiashared fundersPA · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- Muscular Dystrophy Association Incshared fundersIL · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Vanderbilt University Medical Centershared fundersTN · backs 77 organizations that share your funders
- Mayo Clinicshared fundersMN · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $299k on record.
- Consumer Product Safety Commission$299k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Bonita Community Health Center Inc · exempt
- Healthpark Care Center Inc · exempt
- Lee Memorial Home Health Inc · exempt
- Lee Health System Inc · exempt
- Lee County Trauma Services District · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC?
- LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,504,813 to it, the largest being SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST ($13,688,188). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 153 organizations giving $47,504,813 in grants to LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC?
- SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST is the largest funder on record, with $13,688,188 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 153funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing