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BJ & HY Li Family Foundation at a glance

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BJ & HY Li Family 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$32kFood & Nutrition$6kScience & Tech$4kPhilanthropy$4kEnvironment$2kEducation$1kInternational$512Crime & Legal$350Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$509k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Christ Community Church of Milpitas$6,500
River of Life Foundation$2,000
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$1,000
Ottawa Mandarin Alliance Church (OMAC)$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Grand Canyon Conservancy: $1k → 16%Silicon Valley Women Alliance SVWA: $100 → 7%River of Life Foundation: $2k → 8%California Academy of Science: $349 → 10%Monterey Bay Aquarium: $1k → 12%UC Santa Barbara Foundation: $500 → 14%Hawai'i Community Foundation 501(C)(3): $1k → 9%Astri Foundation 501(c)3: $500 → 16%InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA: $200 → 10%Sandy Hook Promise: $250 → 9%World Vision: $512 → 9%River of Life Foundation: $1k → 8%Asian Pacific Fund: $520 → 10%UC Santa Barbara Foundation: $500 → 14%Hawai'i Community Foundation 501(C)(3): $1k → 9%Sandy Hook Promise: $100 → 9%River of Life Foundation: $1k → 8%Asian Pacific Fund: $500 → 10%UC Santa Barbara Foundation: $250 → 14%Christ Community Church of Milpitas: $7k → 8%Christ Community Church of Milpitas: $7k → 8%Christ Cummunity Church: $5k → 8%Christ Cummunity Church: $5k → 8%Christ Cummunity Church: $2k → 8%Christ Cummunity Church: $2k → 8%Second Harvest of Silicon Valey: $2k → 8%Second Harvest of Silicon Valley: $1k → 8%Second Harvest of Silicon Valley: $1k → 8%Second Harvest of Silicon Valey: $1k → 8%Second Harvest of Silicon Valey: $600 → 8%Second Harvest of Silicon Valey: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
CT
CA
MD
AZ
HI
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of BJ & HY Li Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

BJ & HY Li Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43k · 8 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +105% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$43k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+105%
0%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RO
    RIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +22%
  • UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1k · revenue +157%
  • SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $350 · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +38%
  • AF
    Astri Foundation 501(c)3
    one grant, 2024 · $500
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
5
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
6
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
7
National Geographic Society

To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.

Education
8
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
9
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc Santa Barbara Foundation; the most unlike its peers is River of Life Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Christ Cummunity Church: $15,180 · OtherChrist Cummunity ChurchFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF: $13,651 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OFSecond Harvest of Silicon Valey: $3,600 · OtherSecond Harvest of Silicon ValeyOttawa Mandarin Alliance Church (OMAC): $3,040 · OtherOttawa Mandarin Alliance Church (OMAC)+6 more: $1,762 · OtherRIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Arts & CultureRIVER OF …CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $349 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNI…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyASIAN PACIFIC FUND: $1,020 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $2,000 · Food & NutritionUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $1,250 · EducationMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $1,000 · AnimalsGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · Environment
Other$37,233Arts & Culture$4,349Philanthropy$3,020Food & Nutrition$2,000Education$1,250Animals$1,000Environment$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC FUND: $1,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $349 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization BJ & HY Li Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from BJ & HY Li Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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