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Andre and Elaine Suan 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$93kArts & Culture$34kHealth$28kEnvironment$8kReligion$6kRecreation & Sports$4kFood & Nutrition$750Civil Rights$125
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$28k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Exxonmobil.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE UNIVERSITY$7,750
WILLIS EYE HOSPITAL$2,500
CT PIECEMAKERS QUILT GUILD$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$1,000
WESTPORT SCHOOL OF MUSIC$1,000
HOUSE OF RUTH$1,000
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,000
VISITING NURSE AND HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY$500
LAWRENCEVILLE$250
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$250
THE GILMAN SCHOOL$250
LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$250
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Willis Eye Hospital: $3k → 22%Creekview Elementary: $1k → 16%BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $1k → 15%Second Presbyterian Church: $1k → 9%YALE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 12%Second Presbyterian Church: $1k → 16%EVANS SCHOLARSHIP: $2k → 14%ALS Association: $1k → 7%WILLIS EYE HOSPITAL: $3k → 22%BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $1k → 15%Second Presbyterian Church: $1k → 9%Yale University: $16k → 12%SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 16%WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION - EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%WILLIS EYE HOSPITAL: $3k → 22%Yale University: $11k → 12%Willis Eye Hospital: $2k → 22%YALE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 12%Sconset Trust: $3k → 6%Willis Eye Hospital: $2k → 22%Yale University: $7k → 12%Sconset Trust: $3k → 6%Willis Eye Hospital: $1k → 22%Yale University: $6k → 12%Sconset Trust: $1k → 6%Willis Eye Hospital: $1k → 22%Yale University: $6k → 12%Sconset Trust: $1k → 6%Yale University: $4k → 12%Yale University: $2k → 12%JOHN HOPKINS MEDICINE: $1k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH: $1k → 19%CT Piecemakers Quilt Guild: $3k → 9%Baltimore School for the Arts: $1k → 19%CT PIECEMAKERS QUILT GUILD: $3k → 9%Baltimore School for the Arts: $1k → 19%CT Piecemakers Quilt Guild: $3k → 9%CT Piecemakers Quilt Guild: $3k → 9%CT PIECEMAKERS QUILT GUILD: $3k → 9%CT Piecemakers Quilt Guild: $3k → 9%CT Piecemakers Quilt Guild: $2k → 9%Westport School of Music: $3k → 9%Westport School of Music: $3k → 9%Westport School of Music: $2k → 9%Westport School of Music: $2k → 9%Westport School of Music: $2k → 9%Westport School of Music: $2k → 9%WESTPORT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MA
IN
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NJ
CT
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$165k · 18 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$165k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+91%

Still filing today

39%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • 'T
    'SCONSET TRUST INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $8k · revenue ×19
  • VN
    VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +27%
  • GS
    GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • WG
    WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION - EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • CE
    Creekview Elementary School PTOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +91%
  • WH
    White Heron Theatre
    one grant, 2023 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assoc Tennessee Chapter

The amyotrophic lateral sclerosis association's mission is to raise money to assist in finding a cure for als and to improve the lifestyle of those who have als.

3
The Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association St Louis Regional Chapter

To discover treatments and a cure for als, and to serve, advocate for, and empower people affected by als to live their lives to the fullest.

4
Mila's Miracle Foundation

The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…

Health
5
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associatio Evergreen Chapter

Leading the fight to treat and cure ALS through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with Lou Gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.

6
Als United Connecticut

The mission of the als united connecticut is to provide comprehensive support to improve quality of life for people with als and their families, while advocating for increased support and advancing innovative research for new treatments…

Health
7
Answer Als

To find solutions for people living with als now and for the future by utilizing knowledge of patients, leading researchers and technology to seek immediate solutions to improve the lives of those living with als until a treatment or cure…

Health
8
Alport Syndrome Foundation Inc

The foundation was created to educate and support patients and families that have been affected by this genetic kidney disease with a goal of funding research, to find more effective treatment protocols and to ultimately find a cure.

Health
9
Als One Inc

The organization is a partnership of world leaders in als research and care focused on expediting breakthrough treatments and ultimately a cure for als while providing resources and equipment to those living with the disease now. the team…

Health
10
National Multiple Sclerosis Society

We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.

Health
11
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
12
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn and the most unlike its peers is Creekview Elementary School Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY — $46,178 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE UNIVERSITY — $40,882 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYCT Piecemakers Quilt Guild — $17,500 · OtherCT Piecemakers Quilt GuildWILLIS EYE HOSPITAL — $14,250 · OtherWILLIS EYE HOSPITAL+15 more — $21,325 · Other+15 moreWESTPORT SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $16,000 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT S…'SCONSET TRUST INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $3,400 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 · HealthGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $1,550 · EducationCreekview Elementary School PTO — $1,000 · EducationMAC ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $200 · Philanthropy
Other$140,135Arts & Culture$16,000Environment$7,500Health$5,900Education$2,550Philanthropy$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWESTPORT SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $16,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC — $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $3,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $1,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAC ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 WESTPORT SCHOOL OF MUSIC
  • Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC
  • Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
  • Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds Creekview Elementary School PTO
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds MAC ANGELS FOUNDATION 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Andre and Elaine Suan 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc11% of income from government
  • Westport School of Music1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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