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Chun L and Hsin Y Hsieh Family Foundation aka Cedar Lily Foundation at a glance

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Chun L and Hsin Y Hsieh Family Foundation aka Cedar Lily 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.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Religion$196kInternational$20kHuman Services$10k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$309k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD TV USA MINISTRIES$20,000
CHINESE STRATEGY ALLIANCE$20,000
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC$10,000
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC$10,000
FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY INC$10,000
RBC MINISTRIES$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES INC: $20k → 13%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%CHINESE STRATEGY ALLIANCE: $20k → 14%CHINESE STRATEGY ALLIANCE: $10k → 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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$116k · 3 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$116k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+9%

Still filing today

33%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CC
    CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $66k
  • CS
    CHINESE STRATEGY ALLIANCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue -28%
  • AF
    AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -7%
  • OC
    OVERSEAS CAMPUS MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -7%
  • FK
    FAMILY KEEPERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +51%
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
Chinese Christian Internet Mission Inc

Preach gospel through internet and serves Chinese churches.

Religion
2
Chinese Worldwide Gospel Mission

To spread gospel and provide Christianity training to the people in China through volunteer pastors and church elders from the United States.

Religion
3
Christian Communications Inc Usa

Serve Chinese churches worldwide through publishing and media. Also help Chinese churches to grow in Christ, to witness for Him in all parts of the world and to expand the Kingdom of God.

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4
Chinese Christian Mission Inc

To reach out to the chinese worldwide in local evangelism and foreign missions. this purpose is facilitated through the use of missionaries, evangelism training and literature.

Religion
5
Simple Ministries of Asia

Missions china distribution of bibles

Human Services
6
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
7
Chinese Christianity Network Tv

The purpose of this organization is to let people know jesus is the son of god, through holy sprit, for those who believe in him will not be perished, but will have everlasting life.

Religion
8
Institute of Chinese Studies

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

International
9
Chinese International Missions Inc

Spreading the gospel to chinese people around the world. preaching the gospel to the chinese people; sending mission workers into various countries; helping churches in the u.s. and abroad with a vision for world evangelism.

Religion
10
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
11
Asia Vision Inc

We are a group of passionate christians with many years of experience serving and teaching in china. asia vision was established to help the chinese continue to succeed in projects that aid their communities. our purpose is to further the…

Religion
12
Christian Vision for China

Ministering to ministers and missionaries in China

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ambassadors for Christ Inc; the most unlike its peers is Living Water International. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC: $20,000 · ReligionAMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INCGOOD TV USA MINISTRIES: $20,000 · ReligionGOOD TV USA MINISTRIESOVERSEAS CAMPUS MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · ReligionOVERSEAS CAMPUS MINISTRIES INCRBC MINISTRIES: $10,000 · ReligionRBC MINISTRIESFAMILY KEEPERS INC: $10,000 · ReligionFAMILY KEEPERS INCFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY: $10,000 · ReligionFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANYCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $66,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCINTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC: $10,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INCCHINESE STRATEGY ALLIANCE: $30,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE STRATEGY ALLIANCECHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSA…Living Water International: $10,000 · Human ServicesLiving Water International
Religion$90,000Other$76,000Human Services$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHINESE STRATEGY ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD TV USA MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetOVERSEAS CAMPUS MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY KEEPERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Water International: $10,000 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.

MY Charitable Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
MY Charitable FoundationDE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: MY Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 L and Hsin Y Hsieh Family Foundation aka Cedar Lily Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chun L and Hsin Y Hsieh Family Foundation aka Cedar Lily Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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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    Find your warmest path to Chun L and Hsin Y Hsieh Family Foundation aka Cedar Lily 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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