· Private foundation
Chao Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k11 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $208k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $52,000 |
| RENEWAL FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $26,000 |
| FIRST STAR INC | $25,000 |
| MISSOURI S&T | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| MPAK INC | $15,000 |
| ARCADIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WAYMAKERS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| DETERMINED TO SUCCEED | $10,000 |
| WAYMAKERS | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 13% of Chao Family Foundation Inc’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 +47% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 11 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +55%
- TMTHE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN7× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +60%
- WWAYMAKERS6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- W(WAYFINDERS (FKA COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS)one grant, 2018 · $25k
- HOHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +30%
- CFCHOC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +53%
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.
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How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 54 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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES ↗
- Who funds WAYMAKERS ↗
- Who funds Ataxia Telangiectasia Children's Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAR INC ↗
- Who funds Jeremy Lin Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANDAS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MPAK INC ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Determined to Succeed ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN ↗
- Who funds Freefrom ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · AbbVie Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chao Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chao Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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