· Private foundation
Bang-Woel Lu 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE DAF | $94,693 |
| PKD FOUNDATION | $19,911 |
| ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $2,000 |
| TEXAS 4000 FOR CANCER | $1,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $1,000 |
| ZIGEN FUND | $1,000 |
| THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND | $1,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS | $1,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $1,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| GBCCA | $500 |
| PERKINGS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF WESTONS COUNCIL ON AGING INC | $500 |
| WESTON NEWS INC | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +54% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +89%- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC7× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +84%
SMILE TRAIN INC7× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- UFUMASS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- ALA LIFE A TIME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PIPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -9%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 56 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 PKD Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ZIGEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WESTON'S COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LAND'S SAKE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS 4000 FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTON NEWS INC DBA (WESTON OBSERVER) ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bang-Woel Lu Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bang-Woel Lu Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc: 32% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Land's Sake Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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