· Private foundation
Cheng's 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TZU-CHI FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| CHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION | $500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $300 |
| THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE | $300 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $200 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $200 |
| SOBEM USA | $200 |
| MERCY SHIP | $200 |
| ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL | $200 |
| KQED | $200 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $200 |
| WOUNDED WORRIOR PROJECT | $200 |
| NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE7× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +60%
- TPTHE PEACH FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +3%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- PMPortugal Macau Institute of Americaone grant, 2018 · $4k
- CFCHINESE FOR CHRIST BERKELEY CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
- AABAFone grant, 2022 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE ↗
- Who funds THE PEACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIX OUR FERALS ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SPCA ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Moraga Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHOWERS OF BLESSING EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY USA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ROWING CLUB ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Ridge Trail Council ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Moraga Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Beulah Land Foundation · McLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION · Lowell Berry Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Analog Devices Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cheng's Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.