· Private foundation
Ck and Kay Ho 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OVERSEAS CAMPUS MINISTRIES INC | $300,000 |
| JONI FRIENDS | $275,000 |
| Far East Broadcasting Company Inc | $260,000 |
| OMF International | $250,000 |
| OC INTERNATIONAL | $26,000 |
| ASIA ART ARCHIVE IN AMERICA | $22,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE CHURCH | $20,500 |
| Powerhouse Arts | $20,000 |
| CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC | $15,000 |
| PIONEERS | $14,000 |
| Monte Vista Grove Homes | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC SEAFARERS MISSION | $10,000 |
| TELLURIDE THEATRE | $8,000 |
| Africa Inland Mission | $8,000 |
| THE NAVIGATORS GIFT PROCESSING CENT | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +51% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- FEFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +72%
- AAASIA ART ARCHIVE IN AMERICA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +113%
- PAPOWERHOUSE ARTS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +405%
Funded once
- HSHEAVEN SENT MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -2%
- DUDUNELM USAone grant, 2018 · $100k
- HIHOPE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2024 · $54k · revenue 0%
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.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
Mingei International Museum connects audiences with the creativity and cultural traditions of makers across time and the globe, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of our shared humanity through handmade objects, and the…
Give2asia provides philanthropic services to individuals, foundations, corporations and charitable organizations in the united states and asia. give2asia matches donor interests and grantee mission and capacity to make international…
An evangelical interdenominational missionary society dedicated to reaching chinese for christ.
To expand cultural exchange through exhibitions, performances, fashion shows,culinary events, distribution of publications, and other artistic endeavors between korea and the united states
Founded in 1995, the american friends of the shanghai museum is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness and financial support for the shanghai museum, continuing a distinguished history of patron support for…
To edify and make disciples of mainland china and overseas chinese christians to become devoted to only one great person: jesus christ the lord and savior and be motivated by only one greater purpose: building up his church for his glory
To preserve and maintain the cultural identity of chinese immigrants and expose chinese art and contemporary masters of traditional art forms to the general public.
To educate the public about asian contributions to the united states and the rest of the world, promote asian artistic excellence and cross-cultural narratives, and enhance career opportunities for asians by raising public awareness of…
Establishing and supporting churches, orphanges, and schools and supporting ministers and womens ministries in east asia, honduras, kenya, uganda and ukraine.
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
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Hope International Schools Inc. 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 32 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) — 0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 50 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 OVERSEAS CAMPUS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ASIA ART ARCHIVE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HEAVEN SENT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds POWERHOUSE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds INDOPARTNERS AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTE VISTA GROVE HOMES ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
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: The Hsieh Christian Foundation · Adonai Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Ck and Kay Ho 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.
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.
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