Illinois · Private foundation
Deng and Li Family 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.
- $15k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $469k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Deng and Li Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $15k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $15k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $7k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $1k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Buddhism Friendship Association | $13,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Elivy Youth Performing Arts Institute | $8,300 | 3 | 5% |
| Georgetown University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Richmond | $4,600 | 3 | 0% |
| New Trier Parents Association | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Institute for Postmodern Development of China | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wilmette Theatre Education Project Nfp | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| North Star Clay Target Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| New Trier Educational Foundation | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Deng and Li Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Deng and Li Family Foundation
- How much does Deng and Li Family Foundation give?
- Deng and Li Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $14,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Deng and Li Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Education (35%), Arts & Culture (24%).
- Who are Deng and Li Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: International Buddhism Friendship Association ($14k), Elivy Youth Performing Arts Institute ($8k), Georgetown University ($5k).
- Does Deng and Li Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Deng and Li Family 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 Deng and Li Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Deng and Li Family Foundation based?
- Deng and Li Family Foundation is based in IL.
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