Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable
Naples, FL · EIN 46-2742629. Reported 133 grants totalling $1,579,166 to 54 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | New York, NY | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research | New York, NY | $99,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bronx School for Music | Bronx, NY | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor, NY | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia | New York, NY | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Yale Center for British Art | New Haven, CT | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Australian Ballet | Southbank, Victoria | $58,350 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chapel & York - the American Foundation for the Courtauld Institute of Art | New York, NY | $55,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Juilliard School | New York, NY | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | Bronxville, NY | $49,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chapel & York Foundation - Royal Museums of Greenwich | New York, NY | $47,618 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bard Graduate Center | New York, NY | $47,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pianofest | Hudson, OH | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Caf America - Art Gallery of New South Wales | Alexandria, VA | $35,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chapel & York Foundation - Watts Gallery | New York, NY | $35,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the Victoria & Albert Museum | Greenwich, CT | $33,900 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Caf America - Various | Alexandria, VA | $31,320 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Caf America - Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Alexandria, VA | $30,514 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| King Baudouin Foundation Fbo Royal Academy | New York, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Grange Park Opera | New York, NY | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Byrd Hoffman Watermill Center | Water Mill, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Columbia University - Wallach Art Gallery | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Delaware Art Museum | Wilmington, DE | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Give Directly Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Opera on Tap | Brooklyn, NY | $22,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the National Gallery | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Int'l Foundation for Art Research | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| International Foundation for Art Research | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Walters Art Museum | Baltimore, MD | $19,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Metropolitan Opera Guild | New York, NY | $17,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Art Fund | New York, NY | $16,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Caf America - Hunter Medical Research Institute | Alexandria, VA | $15,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the Royal Museum - Greenwich | New York, NY | $15,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of the British Museum | London | $15,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Australian Ballet | Southbank Victoria | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Caf America - Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Sydney | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Chapel & York - Cortauld Institute of Art | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Advancement in Conservation | Washington, DC | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Frick Collection | New York, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caf America - Opera Australia | Strawberry Hills, New South Wales | $12,087 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Caf America - St Vincent's Curran Foundation | Alexandria, VA | $12,087 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| V&a Americas Foundation | Berkeley Heights, NJ | $11,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Federation of Arts | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Americans for Oxford Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Myriad USA (royal Academy) | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caf America - Leighton House | Alexandria, VA | $8,240 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Heckscher Museum of Art | Huntington, NY | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Thomas Cole National Historic House | Catskill, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caf America - Opera Australia | Strawberry Hills Nsw | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Benton Museum of Art | Claremont, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Caf America - GOOD2GIVE | Alexandria, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Caf America - Top-Up | Alexandria, VA | $3,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chapel & York - Wallace Collection | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | Philadelphia, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
35 of 54 (65%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 69%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Columbia University
SUPPORT OF THE SUMMER TRAVEL PROGRAM - American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia
SUPPORT OF ART FELLOWSHIP (YEAR 5) - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SUPPORT OF COVID-19 RESEARCH - Friends of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research
SUPPORT OF DR. CALDON'S OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH - Bronx School for Music
STUDENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM - Byrd Hoffman Watermill Center
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST IN SUMMER PROGRAM & TRAVEL SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 46 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 34 | $410,500 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 35 | $354,190 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 29 | $391,593 | $10,300 |
| 2024 | 35 | $422,883 | $10,300 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
72% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: T Albright 4851 Tamiami Trail N, Naples, FL, 34103. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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