Skip to content
Chun-Cheng Cheng Charitable and Educational Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Chun-Cheng Cheng Charitable and Educational 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.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$50kEducation$37kHousing & Shelter$21kInternational$10kCommunity Improvement$5kPhilanthropy$5kYouth Development$3kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$241k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WOMEN'S HOME$5,000
FORMOSAN ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS$2,000
DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF BAY AREA$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $6k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $5k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $5k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $5k → 16%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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72k · 6 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$72k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+25%

Still filing today

83%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Recreation & SportsPublic BenefitEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S HOME
    4× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +31%
  • SU
    STUF UNITED FUND INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +42%
  • TH
    TAIWANESE HERITAGE SOCIETY OF HOUSTON
    3× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • S
    SPARKgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +25%
  • TC
    TAIWANESE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF NORTH AMERICA
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Taiwanese United Fund
Arts & Culture
2
Taiwanese-American Foundation
—
3
Global Taiwan Institute

Global Taiwan Institutes (GTI) mission is to enhance the relationship between Taiwan and other countries, especially the United States, through policy research and programs that promote better public understanding about Taiwan and its…

Arts & Culture
4
Chiao Tung University Alumni Foundation of America Inc

One of the purposes shall be to aid the Chiao Tung Universities in financing their educational activities on mainland and Taiwan of China. Another purpose shall be to aid the alumni and faculties of the Universities and their immediate…

—
5
World Affairs Council of Greater Houston

Promote understanding of the world, its people, politics, economies and cultures, in order to enable the greater houston community to better understand its role and participate more effectively in a global world.

International
6
Us-China Chamber of Commerce Dallas

Chamber of commerce

Community Improvement
7
Tsinghua Education Foundation Na Inc

Established in 1997, TEFNA has established, fostered and maintained educational exchanges and collaboration between Tsinghua University in China and other universities, colleges, companies and industries in the US and other countries…

International
8
Fudan University Education Development Foundation

1) Support academic research and talents cultivation in Fudan University. 2) Promote higher education in Fudan University and other educational organizations in China. 3) Strengthen global cooperations of education and research. 4) Enhance…

Education
9
Chinese Community Center Inc

The chinese community center's mission is to bridge east & west by enriching families with educational, cultural, and social programs.

Human Services
10
Us - China Policy Foundation
—
11
Taiwanese American Citizens League

To promote leadership and cultural awareness of taiwanese americans, and improve the quality of life of taiwanese americans in the united states

—
12
Asian Chamber Foundation

The Asian Chamber Foundation provides opportunities of educational programming and funding support for the Asian community in economic growth and resiliency. We have a long standing impact since 1995 with scholarships and now expanded to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Taiwanese Chambers of Commerce of North America. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPARK: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsSPARKCY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationCY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATI…THE WOMEN'S HOME: $21,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOMESTUF UNITED FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropySTUF UNITED …GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUS…TAIWANESE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF NORTH AMERICA: $5,000 · OtherTAIWANESE…DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF BAY AREA: $2,000 · OtherDOWN SYND…THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · OtherTHE TRUST…HOUSTON TAIWANESE CARE & ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · OtherHOUSTON T…Citizen Schools of Texas: $500 · OtherTAIWANESE COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 · OtherThe Joint Chinese College Alumni Association: $400 · Other+1 more: $200 · OtherFormosan Association for Public Affairs: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTAIWANESE HERITAGE SOCIETY OF HOUSTON: $2,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Recreation & Sports$50,000Education$35,000Human Services$21,000Philanthropy$15,000Other$11,100Youth Development$2,500Arts & Culture$2,000Public Benefit$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPARK: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTUF UNITED FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAIWANESE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF NORTH AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFormosan Association for Public Affairs: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAIWANESE HERITAGE SOCIETY OF HOUSTON: $2,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200 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.

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chun-Cheng Cheng Charitable and Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chun-Cheng Cheng Charitable and Educational 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Chun-Cheng Cheng Charitable and Educational’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home