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Dca Chen Private 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 $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF HOPE | $50,000 |
| THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ART MUSEUM AND | $50,000 |
| YOU LEAD FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TAIWANESE HOLINESS CHURCH OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| HERALD CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| PASADENA HUMANE | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| SAN GABRIEL VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| TAIWANESE AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $2k) 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 +31% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- HMHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES4× · 2018–2021 · $93k · revenue +4%
- TATAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND2× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +76%
CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- CACSC ALHAMBRA MEDICAL CLINICone grant, 2021 · $15k
- TCTAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +47%
- HMHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUESone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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 49 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 15% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 37 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 HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds TAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HERALD CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAN GABRIEL VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIANITY NETWORK TV ↗
- Who funds Taiwanese American Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAVE THEM ALL INC SIMON ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds San Marino Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · Sempra Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Dca Chen Private 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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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