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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.

$172k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Dca Chen Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$172k44%
FY20243$130k33%
FY20236$125k67%
FY20223$60k33%
FY20217$81k43%
FY202020$49k95%
FY20192$24k50%
FY20181$30k100%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$154kCommunity Improvement$135kReligion$127kArts & Culture$116kEducation$81kHuman Services$46kPhilanthropy$25kAnimals$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Huntington Medical Research Institutes$93,00040%
Taiwanese American Scholarship Fund$80,00026%
You Lead Foundation$70,0005n/a
Taiwanese Holiness Church of America$45,0002n/a
Chinatown Service Center$45,00020%
Herald Christian Health Center$35,00020%
Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater Los Angeles$15,00011%
Pasadena Humane$5,0001n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$5,0001n/a
San Gabriel Valley Humane Society$5,00010%
Show all 27 grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($264k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dca Chen Private Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHuntington Medical Research Institutes: $93,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTaiwanese American Scholarship Fund: $80,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetChinatown Service Center: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHerald Christian Health Center: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTaiwan Center Foundation of Greater Los Angeles: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSan Gabriel Valley Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChinese Christianity Network Tv: $5,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTaiwanese American Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnion Rescue Mission: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave Them All Inc Simon: $500 over 1y, 28% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Marino Schools Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Midnight Mission: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern CaliforniaCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to Dca Chen Private 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.

About Dca Chen Private Foundation

How much does Dca Chen Private Foundation give?
Dca Chen Private Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $172,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dca Chen Private Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Community Improvement (19%), Religion (18%).
Who are Dca Chen Private Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Huntington Medical Research Institutes ($93k), Taiwanese American Scholarship Fund ($80k), You Lead Foundation ($70k).
Does Dca Chen Private Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dca Chen Private Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dca Chen Private Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California, Sempra Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation.
Where is Dca Chen Private Foundation based?
Dca Chen Private Foundation is based in CA.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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