· Private foundation
Chou Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OCTET COLLABORATIVE INC | $20,000 |
| CHINA PARTNERSHIP | $15,000 |
| BARNABAS AND CO | $14,000 |
| VETSTARTS INC | $10,000 |
| THE VERITAS FORUM INC | $10,000 |
| ABIDE GATHERING INC | $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 (FY17–23, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +0% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VVERITAS5× · 2017–2021 · $125k
- VIVETSTARTS INC5× · 2018–2023 · $79k · revenue -39%
- CPCHINA PARTNERSHIP3× · 2021–2023 · $45k
Funded once
- HIHALFTIME INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -14%
- CTCALLED TO BE PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $15k
- CHCONNECTIONS HOMES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +276%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.
Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.
The barnabas group inc is a collaboration of christian leaders, putting marketplace and kingdom resources to use to transform lives for god.
Explore god creates and leverages quality content and media that enables young adults, seekers, and christians to explore god, experience god, and engage in god's plan for their life. using cutting-edge technology, we facilitate spiritual…
ACCI serves pioneering Christians, empowering them to proclaim the gospel, fulfill their God-given visions, and advance the kingdom of God. ACCI longs for a world where lives are transformed through the Holy Spirit, where new disciples are…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
The barnabas group inc is a collaboration of christian leaders using marketplace and kingdom resources to transform lives for god.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 VETSTARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OCTET COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds HALFTIME INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS & CO ↗
- Who funds Freedom United ↗
- Who funds ABIDE GATHERING INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JA WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds GO AND LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY WOMEN'S CARE ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chou Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chou Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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