· Private foundation
Cyrus and Michael Tang 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $481k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAND CORPORATION | $1,000,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY | $735,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $450,000 |
| EAT REAL | $250,000 |
| BIG GREEN | $100,000 |
| NEVADA HAND INC | $81,000 |
| BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY | $75,000 |
| THE FIELD MUSEUM | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE | $50,000 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $35k) 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 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 +13% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M 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
University of Chicago4× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +52%- TUTOURO UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +16%
- NHNEVADA HAND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $197k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- OOONLY ONE INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +15%
- DFDITCHLEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- KGKENNY GUINN CENTER FOR POLICY PRIORITIESone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -16%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
To deliver accessible world-class student experiences by providing quality programs and services that ensure student success through meaningful learning. to be an inclusive and innovative university serving life-long learners who…
Inform the public and policymakers about the clear benefits of nuclear energy and support policy solutions that properly value nuclear energy as a reliable, affordable, safe and clean energy source.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mumzys Children Relief Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 31 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 University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eat Real Certified Inc ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HAND INC ↗
- Who funds ONLY ONE INC ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Big Green ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY ↗
- Who funds NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAS VEGAS INNER CITY GAMES ↗
- Who funds KENNY GUINN CENTER FOR POLICY PRIORITIES ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA ↗
- Who funds WORLD WAR II FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds MUMZYS CHILDREN RELIEF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds One Drop Foundation Inc ↗
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: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Cyrus and Michael Tang 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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