· Private foundation
Derek Wang 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of Children with Special Ne | $5,500 |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium | $2,500 |
| James Smithson Society | $2,500 |
| River of Life Christian Church | $1,500 |
| National Geographic Society | $1,000 |
| Camp Via West | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +105%- FOFriends of Children with Special Needs4× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +37%
- NGNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY6× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- SLStanford Lucile Packard Children Hoone grant, 2020 · $1k
- SSSHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -11%
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…
Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Children with Special Needs ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Derek Wang Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Derek Wang Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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