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Connor Palaya Lins Foundation at a glance

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Connor Palaya Lins Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$318kReligion$263kPhilanthropy$50kHuman Services$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kEducation$14kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS USA INC$25,000
WORLD VISION$25,000
THE SUPREME MASTER CHING HAI INTERN$20,000
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$15,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$426k · 5 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$426k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+32%

Still filing today

40%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalReligionHuman 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

  • TS
    THE SUPREME MASTER CHING HAI INTERN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $160k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +98%
  • TS
    THE SUPREME MASTER CHING HAI
    4× · 2018–2021 · $95k

Funded once

  • AF
    ANCHORED FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +394% · 42% of their budget
  • MV
    MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +32%
  • HS
    HARVEST SEMINARY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -48%
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
VisionFund International

VisionFund International (VFI) was established for the purpose of supporting World Vision International (WVI) by coordinating and providing funding to World Vision - affiliated microfinance institutions (MFIs) located in developing…

Philanthropy
2
Retinal Vascular Foundation
—
3
World Education Fund
Education
4
Msc Foundation
Philanthropy
5
University Foundation
—
6
Full Frame Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
Linked Foundation
Philanthropy
8
The Retina Vitreous Foundation
Health
9
Usd Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Collegiate Foundations
Philanthropy
11
Commonwealth Foundations
Philanthropy
12
Washington Federal Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Anchored Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SUPREME MASTER CHING HAI INTERN: $160,000 · OtherTHE SUPREME MASTER CHING HAI INTERNTHE SUPREME MASTER CHING HAI: $95,000 · OtherTHE SUPREME MASTER CHING HAIANCHORED FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherANCHORED FOUNDATIONOXFAM: $33,000 · OtherOXFAMDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $20,000 · Other+4 more: $17,500 · OtherWORLD VISION INC: $155,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $130,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 · Human ServicesMountain View Educational Foundation: $8,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationHARVEST SEMINARY INC: $5,000 · Religion
Other$375,500International$285,000Human Services$15,000Education$8,500Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD VISION INC: $155,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $130,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANCHORED FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain View Educational Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARVEST SEMINARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Mountain View Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST SEMINARY INC ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Connor Palaya Lins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Connor Palaya Lins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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 15 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.

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