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Dsea Wong Foundation at a glance

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Dsea Wong 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.

$159k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$776kSocial Science$450kArts & Culture$310kInternational$202kHealth$175kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kEnvironment$60kPhilanthropy$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$411k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fire Aid$100,000
George W Bush Presidential Center$50,000
HOPE SUPPY CO$5,000
Carrera Swing For Success Fund$3,000
Boy Scouts of America$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPE SUPPY CO: $34k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $5k → 14%HOPE SUPPY CO: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
TN
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$545k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
22

Total granted

$1.0M
$391k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+36%

Still filing today

58%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TP
    TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +18%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    2× · 2017–2018 · $179k · revenue +37%
  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • The Rand Corporation
    one grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue 0%
  • EI
    ELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -27%
  • KB
    KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +126%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
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
3
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $400,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $251,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STAN…THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION+5 more: $98,500 · Education+5 moreHarvard Business School: $325,000 · OtherHarvard Business SchoolFIRE AID: $100,000 · OtherFIRE AIDCHARITABLE FRIENDS OF THE DIGAMMA BUIDLING INC: $84,000 · OtherCHARITABLE FRIENDS OF THE DIGAMM…SYDA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherHOPE SUPPLY CO: $43,666 · OtherHOPE SUPPLY CO+16 more: $61,335 · Other+16 moreTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT …THE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $49,900 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOU…REDF: $40,000 · PhilanthropyREDF+1 more: $1,600 · PhilanthropySAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $178,850 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCI…Dallas Museum of Art: $35,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Mus…The Rand Corporation: $125,000 · Public BenefitELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN: $10,000 · HealthMUSIC MOVEMENT INC: $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,000 · HealthCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $54,593 · Environment
Education$800,000Other$644,001Philanthropy$291,500Arts & Culture$213,850Public Benefit$125,000Health$125,000Environment$54,593

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $400,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $251,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $178,850 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $54,593 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $49,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO: $43,666 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetREDF: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNUEVA SCHOOL: $19,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC MOVEMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOLLOY UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCambodian Childrens Fund: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…The Goldman Sachs Cha…United Way of the Bay…The San Francisco Fou…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · United Way of the Bay Area · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dsea Wong Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dsea Wong Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 41 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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