· Private foundation
Chan Soon-Shiong 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
66% of Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $15M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $470k
- $250k+4 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $9,000,000 |
| Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund | $3,700,000 |
| SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL | $1,562,692 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $500,000 |
| CUTWINI SCHOOL SOUTH AFRICA | $154,250 |
| Luphoko Village South Africa | $123,400 |
| Lujazu Village South Africa | $92,550 |
| REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS | $50,000 |
| The Music Center | $50,000 |
| Mtambalala School South Africa | $41,133 |
| El Segundo Education Foundation | $25,000 |
| LA RAMS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Asian Americans Advancing Justice SoCal | $10,000 |
| RACE TO ERASE MS | $10,000 |
| Museum of Chinese in America | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $885k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI4× · 2020–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +39%- GFGASOL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $405k · revenue +483% · 48% of their budget
THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS6× · 2018–2025 · $285k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- WHWINDBER HOSPITAL INC CHAN SOON-SHIONG MEDICAL CENTER WINDBERone grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue +25%
- AFACADEMY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -7%
- TJTHE JAIN FAMILY INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -50%
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 harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Non-profit research institute to advance a systems (or holistic and cross-disciplinary) approach to science; personalized medicine; global health & environmental sustainability; science education; & the pioneering & invention of biological…
Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 79 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 BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds ACCESS TO ADVANCED HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds WINDBER HOSPITAL INC CHAN SOON-SHIONG MEDICAL CENTER WINDBER ↗
- Who funds TSINGHUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION NA INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JAIN FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds POLYBIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GASOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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