Alicia and Jason Lee Foundation

What Alicia and Jason Lee Foundation does

The Alicia and Jason Lee Foundation (doing business as The Alicia and Jason Lee Fund) is a private charitable foundation established in 2020 by founders Alicia and Jason Lee. The foundation operates exclusively in New York City, where the Lees have long resided, and its mission is to support community wellbeing, access to opportunity, the arts, and the pursuit of equity and justice. Unlike a commercial entity, the foundation does not sell products or services; instead, it operates as a grantmaking vehicle, providing financial support and partnership to nonprofit organizations serving New York City communities.

The foundation's programmatic activity is centered on a small set of named grantee organizations. It supports the New York Asian Film Festival (North America's leading festival of Asian cinema), University Settlement (a Manhattan-based social services organization, with whom the fund partnered in 2020 to provide free self-defense classes for Asian neighbors on the Lower East Side), and The Father's Heart Ministries (an East Village soup kitchen serving weekly Saturday breakfasts). These three relationships comprise the entirety of disclosed programmatic activity, indicating a deliberately concentrated, locally-rooted philanthropy model.

The foundation's infrastructure is minimal: a Squarespace-hosted website at aliciaandjasonleefund.org serves as its primary public-facing platform, communicating mission, grantee information, and contact details. No headcount, office locations, financial disclosures, regulatory milestones beyond founding, or commercial channels are reported. The entity has no parent company, no subsidiaries, no funding rounds, and no external ownership structure — it exists as an independent expression of the Lees' personal philanthropic commitment to New York City.

Name

Alicia and Jason Lee Foundation

Legal name

The Alicia and Jason Lee Fund

Website

https://aliciaandjasonleefoundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Short description

The Alicia and Jason Lee Foundation is a private charitable foundation established in 2020 by Alicia and Jason Lee, supporting community wellbeing, access to opportunity, the arts, and equity and justice across New York City through grants to local nonprofit organizations.

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Product category

Charitable Foundation / Philanthropic Grantmaking

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGAKAD

Family Offices & Philanthropic Advisors (Grantmaking)

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Philanthropy, Foundations & Grantmaking

SECONDARYBPAGAKAN

Social Justice & Human Rights Grantmaking Foundations

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Philanthropy, Foundations & Grantmaking

Keywords

• Charitable foundation
• Community grants
• Arts philanthropy
• Equity initiatives
• Community wellbeing

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

The Alicia and Jason Lee Fund is a private charitable foundation that makes grants and provides partnership support to nonprofit organizations serving New York City. Its grantmaking is organized around three cause pillars: community wellbeing, access to opportunity and the arts, and the pursuit of equity and justice. The Fund partners directly with grantees such as the New York Asian Film Festival, University Settlement, and The Father's Heart Ministries to deliver programming including free self-defense classes and community meals.

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Products and services

• NYC Community Grants Program Grantmaking and partnership program providing financial and partnership support to nonprofit organizations serving New York City communities, with a focus on community wellbeing, arts access, equity, and justice.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• University SettlementcoreOthers · 1 January 2020University Settlement helps New Yorkers in need achieve healthy, stable, and remarkable lives. In 2020, the Fund partnered with University Settlement to provide free self-defense classes for their neighbors, many of whom are Asian, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
• New York Asian Film FestivalcoreOthersThe New York Asian Film Festival is North America's leading festival of the best and boldest in Asian cinema. The Alicia and Jason Lee Fund supports this organization as part of its commitment to supporting the arts in New York City.
• The Father's Heart MinistriescoreOthersThe Father's Heart Ministries is a soup kitchen in the East Village serving guests a warm breakfast every Saturday. The Fund supports this organization as part of its commitment to community wellbeing.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Broad incumbents

• Ford Foundation: One of the largest U.S. foundations funding global inequality reduction, civic engagement, and arts. Comparable as a broad incumbent in the philanthropic/grantmaking space addressing equity and justice causes that overlap with the Lee Fund's stated pillars.
• Open Society Foundations: Large private foundation funding human rights, equity, and justice globally. Comparable as a broad incumbent grantmaker with explicit focus on equity and justice — themes the Lee Fund also identifies as a core pillar.

Direct peers

• Robin Hood Foundation: New York City-focused poverty-fighting foundation that combines grantmaking with program design and capacity-building for local nonprofits. Comparable to the Alicia and Jason Lee Fund in its NYC geographic focus and willingness to co-develop programs with grantees.
• Asian Cultural Council: Foundation supporting Asian cultural exchange and arts across NYC and globally. Comparable for its arts-focused grantmaking in NYC and emphasis on Asian-American cultural causes — directly adjacent to the Lee Fund's support of the New York Asian Film Festival.
• The Asian American Foundation: A national foundation supporting Asian-American communities through grants to nonprofits, with emphasis on representation, equity, and community wellbeing. Comparable in its explicit focus on Asian-American causes and in being a relatively newer fund (launched 2021) building a grantee portfolio.
• The New York Community Trust: NYC's community foundation, pooling donations and distributing grants across the five boroughs to nonprofits working in community wellbeing, arts, and equity. Comparable in mission breadth (community wellbeing, opportunity, equity) and NYC-only operating geography.
• William Penn Foundation: Family-controlled foundation supporting community wellbeing, opportunity, and the arts in a defined geographic region. Comparable as a similarly structured family foundation with multi-pillar (community, opportunity, arts) grantmaking.

Regional players

• Henry Street Settlement: Long-standing NYC social services organization on the Lower East Side delivering community programs across health, education, and the arts. Comparable as a NYC community-services counterparty the Lee Fund's grantees (e.g., University Settlement) resemble in geography and service mix.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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Investors

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