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Bob and Alice Lin Foundation at a glance

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Bob and Alice Lin Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
9
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Bob and Alice Lin Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Bob and Alice Lin Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $55k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

15
’17
5
’18
1
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$409kEducation$58kPublic Benefit$8kReligion$4kHousing & Shelter$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kHealth$2kScience & Tech$2kOther$0
02FY2018 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k9 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$22,000
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$20,000
SILICON VALLEY LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION$7,400
MADD NATIONAL PROCESSING CENTER$1,440
KDFC$1,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$1,000
COVENANT HOUSE$1,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$500
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$500
HABITATE FOR HUMANITY$100
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REDCROSS: $1k → 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

IL
NY
MA
SD
CA
CO
KY
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45k · 5 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +152% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
19

Total granted

$45k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+152%
+46%

Still filing today

40%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationHealthPhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $32k · revenue +152%
  • SV
    SILICON VALLEY LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k

Funded once

  • SV
    SILICON VALLEY CANAAN EVERGREEN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -76%
  • BT
    BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • CA
    CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +147%
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
American Institute for Cancer Research

Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
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
4
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
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
8
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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9
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
10
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
11
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
12
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Indian College Fund; the most unlike its peers is Silicon Valley Canaan Evergreen Academy. 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

19 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. 19 of the 32 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $409,368 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+3 more: $1,100 · PhilanthropyALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $32,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD C…Illinois Institute of Technology: $20,000 · EducationIllinois Inst…SILICON VALLEY CANAAN EVERGREEN ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationSILICON VALLE…+2 more: $1,000 · EducationSILICON VALLEY LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION: $7,697 · OtherCOVENANT HOUSE: $3,007 · OtherMADD NATIONAL PROCESSING CENTER: $1,800 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $1,000 · OtherKDFC: $1,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER OF AMERICA: $1,000 · Other+9 more: $2,500 · OtherBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $2,000 · ReligionCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $500 · ReligionCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $700 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150 · HealthKQED INC: $516 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$410,468Education$58,000Other$18,004Religion$2,500Human Services$2,500Health$1,350Arts & Culture$516

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $409,368 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CANAAN EVERGREEN ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $516 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLions Clubs International Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bob and Alice Lin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bob and Alice Lin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report 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 32 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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