California · Private foundation
Chau Family Charitable 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.
- $618k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Chau Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $618k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $599k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $460k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $435k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $306k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $273k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $312k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $230k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | $681,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pomona College | $475,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cultural Enrichment Coalition | $43,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Memorial Medical Center Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Pomona Holy Church | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
About Chau Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Chau Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Chau Family Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $618,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chau Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Health (29%), Community Improvement (7%).
- Who are Chau Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cornell University ($681k), Pomona College ($475k), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ($125k).
- Does Chau Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chau Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Where is Chau Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Chau Family Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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