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· Private foundation

Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$300kReligion$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHealth$13kHousing & Shelter$4kFood & Nutrition$2kArts & Culture$1kHuman Services$600Other$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$773k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVIERSITY OF SAN AGUSTIN$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN AGUSTIN$1,500
USA HIGHSCHOOL CLASS OF 74 INC$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,000
UNIVIERSITY OF SAN AGUSTIN$1,000
US TMAA FOUNDATION$1,000
GINA AGNES S ESPINOSA$1,000
LOS ANGELES MISSION$500
UNIVIERSITY OF SAN AGUSTIN$500
THE SALVATION ARMY$500
Individual grant recipient$100
HOPE THE MISSION$100
02The need
03

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 US giving52% of grant dollars ($199k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 48% that went abroad ($182k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300 → 14%VALLEY FOOD BANK: $750 → 14%VALLEY FOOD BANK: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
IA
CA
AR
TN
DC
FL

Beyond the US48% of all-years giving ($182k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Philippines$182k · 36 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$298k · 15 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
37

Total granted

$298k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+59%

Still filing today

33%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationInternationalOther

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

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2020 · $2k · revenue +40%
  • RM
    RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +16%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2018–2023 · $800 · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • SY
    SUN YAT SEN HIGH SCHOOL OF ILOILO I
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • VC
    VENTURA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • LC
    LA CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
3
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
4
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
5
Union Rescue Mission

Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…

Human Services
6
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
7
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
8
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
9
Globus Relief

The mission of globus relief is to improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide by gathering, processing and distributing surplus medical and health supplies to charities at home and abroad.

International
10
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
11
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
12
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope the Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

USTMAAA FOUNDATION — $140,000 · OtherUSTMAAA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF SAN AGUSTIN — $69,706 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN AGUSTINUSA HIGHSCHOOL CLASS OF 74 INC — $33,416 · OtherUSA HIGHSCHOOL CLASS OF 74 INCSUN YAT SEN HIGH SCHOOL OF ILOILO I — $19,530 · OtherSUN YAT SEN HIGH SCHOOL — $19,000 · OtherUSA HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1974 INC — $17,700 · Other+45 more — $74,813 · Other+45 moreLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $2,650 · Housing & ShelterRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE — $1,250 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $800 · Human ServicesHOPE THE MISSION — $100 · Human ServicesSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $1,500 · EducationTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $750 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $200 · HealthUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $500 · International
Other$374,165Housing & Shelter$2,650Human Services$2,150Education$1,500Health$950International$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $2,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LOS ANGELES MISSION INC
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dr Rene & Daisy Lim 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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