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Charles & Julie Tang Family Foundation

$1k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$500
Largest
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 2022.

Public Benefit$2kEducation$600Animals$600Health$400Civil Rights$400
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
4
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Turning Point USA$500
Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County$200
St Johns Health Center Foundation$100
Hillsdale College$100
Judicial Watch$100
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 (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County: $200 → 9%St Johns Health Center: $200 → 14%Judicial Watch: $300 → 14%Hillsdale College: $300 → 14%Young America's Foundation: $300 → 6%Leadership Institute: $300 → 7%Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County: $200 → 9%St Johns Health Center: $100 → 14%Judicial Watch: $300 → 14%Hillsdale College: $200 → 14%Young America's Foundation: $100 → 6%Leadership Institute: $100 → 7%Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County: $200 → 9%St Johns Health Center Foundation: $100 → 14%Judicial Watch: $100 → 14%Hillsdale College: $100 → 14%Heritage Foundation: $200 → 14%Heritage Foundation: $200 → 14%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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2k · 5 repeat orgs$600 to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$2k
$600

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+43%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Public BenefitHealthOther
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

  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $700 · revenue +16%
  • FF
    Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County
    3× · 2020–2022 · $600 · revenue +132%
  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $400 · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +43%
  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100 · revenue +22%
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
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
4
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
5
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
8
St John's College

St. john's distinctive liberal arts curriculum and educational practices have long given it a highly respected place among american colleges and universities. its strong commitment to collaborative inquiry and to the study of original…

Education
9
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
12
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County: $600 · OtherForgotten Felines of Sonoma CountyTURNING POINT USA INC: $500 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCYoung America's Foundation: $400 · OtherYoung America's FoundationSt Johns Health Center: $300 · OtherSt Johns Health CenterJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $700 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $400 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONLeadership Institute: $400 · Public BenefitLeadership InstituteHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $600 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGESAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $100 · Health
Other$1,800Public Benefit$1,500Education$600Health$100

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetForgotten Felines of Sonoma County: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Charles & Julie Tang Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Charles & Julie Tang Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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