· Private foundation
Avery-Tsui 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $664k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | $500,000 |
| SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART | $400,000 |
| CHINESE SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO | $300,000 |
| ALPHA EDUCATION | $200,000 |
| POWAY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $180,644 |
| INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SERVICE HONG KONG BRANCH | $128,568 |
| CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA | $77,500 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $77,500 |
| CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $554k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +89%
- CSCHINESE SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO2× · 2022–2025 · $800k · revenue +1% · 82% of their budget
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $133k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- WDWORLD DESIGN CAPITAL SAN DIEGO TIJUANA 2024one grant, 2024 · $75k
- CPCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- USUC SAN DIEGOone grant, 2021 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To preserve and maintain the cultural identity of chinese immigrants and expose chinese art and contemporary masters of traditional art forms to the general public.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
CHSA is dedicated to the documentation, study, and presentation of Chinese American history. Through exhibitions, publications, and educational,public programming, CHSA promotes contributions and legacy of Chinese America.
To elevate underserved communities and gives voice to equality through education and contemporary art.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
To provide education of the chinese language and culture to multi-ethinic students and encouragement and promotion of other deeper understanding of chiense culture.
To foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of america's diverse heritage by researching, preserving, and sharing the history, rich cultural legacy, and continuing contributions of chinese americans.
The mission of the organization is to promote and encourage the development of the chinese-american business community througout the greater los angeles area, to serve as an advocate of the chinese business community, to provide a forum…
Own and operate a collaborative platform anchored in san francisco chinatown that celebrates, explores, and supports leading and pioneering creative experessions at the intersection of community, culture, art and media.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHINESE SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIAT ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Avery-Tsui Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Avery-Tsui Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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