Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundation
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About Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundation
The Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation (DLMECF) is a private, grant-making foundation that supports charitable organizations with a primary focus on the advancement of the arts, including art education, art preservation, and art exhibitions. Grant-making is guided by the founder’s interest in 18th and 19th Century British and European art.
Focus Areas
ArtsArt educationArt preservationArt exhibitions
Who They Fund
students and student internsemerging and mid‑career artists (including international/Australian artists)scholars and fellows (art history, research)teachers and school groups / children and familiesmuseum visitors and the general publicmedical researchers (cancer research)
About Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundation
A $25,000 travel fellowship to Columbia University and a parallel $25,000 grant to Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery show how the Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundation combines individual support with museum and university programming. The foundation’s grantmaking is organized around the advancement of the arts, especially art education, art preservation, and art exhibitions, with a stated interest in 18th and 19th Century British and European art guiding decisions. Its recent grants also point to a broad arts portfolio that reaches galleries, schools, museums, and fellowship programs rather than a single institution type. The foundation funds both projects and operating needs, and it also supports individuals through fellowships and scholarships. Recent awards include support for the Byrd Hoffman Watermill Center’s Australian artist program and travel support, the Yale Center for British Art’s Turner 250 project, and a student scholarship at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Alongside those arts grants, the foundation has also made recent awards for scientific and medical research, including cancer-related work, which broadens its profile beyond the arts while leaving arts advancement as the core theme. Recurring recipients appear in the recent record, including Columbia University, the Bronx School for Music, Australian Ballet, and Friends of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. That pattern suggests an annual grantmaker that maintains relationships with a small set of institutions while also backing one-time projects and specific exhibition or education efforts.
What Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundation Funds
Art education is one of the clearest threads in the foundation’s recent giving. It awarded $25,000 to Columbia University for art education in 2023 and $15,000 to Sarah Lawrence College for art education in 2024, while also supporting school programming through American Friends of the Royal Museum - Greenwich with a $15,700 grant. Collections and exhibition work also receive direct support. The foundation gave $30,500 to Chapel & York - the American Foundation for the Courtauld Institute of Art for an art exhibition, $15,000 to the same organization in 2023 for another exhibition, and $15,000 to Delaware Art Museum for the exhibition “Inked Impressions.” Individual development appears in fellowships and scholarships. Columbia University received $25,000 for Dr Edwards Travel Fellowships, and Bard Graduate Center received $15,000 for the Lee Edwards Fellowship in Art History & Biscuit Tins Exhibit. These grants sit alongside museum and university funding rather than replacing it.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$423K
Total Assets
$5.7M
Total Revenue
$623K
Total Expenses
$553K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $5K and $15K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$15K
Geographic Reach
National10 states funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in NY.
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Headquarters
Funding intensity
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Where Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundation Funds
Top 3 recipient countries by grant volume for Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 90 | $1.1M | 90.9% |
| 2 |
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