Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation Dossiers
Plinth

· Private foundation

East West Bank Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$6.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$17MCommunity Improvement$3.5MPublic Benefit$1.0MHuman Services$684kCivil Rights$509kPhilanthropy$324kEducation$278kSocial Science$205kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $520k
  • $250k+7 grants · $10M
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (LACMA)$5,970,894
GRAMEEN AMERICA INC$1,376,039
MUSEUM ASSOCIATES$988,568
THE BROAD$856,339
ASIAN ART MUSEUM$500,000
THE ACADEMY FOUNDATION$500,000
GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC$250,000
THE COLBURN SCHOOL$150,000
RISE ECONOMY$100,000
THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES$100,000
THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE$70,000
QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE$50,000
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS$46,500
FILM INDEPENDENT$25,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $710k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center: $1k → 16%THE FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $10k → 12%El Centro de la Raza: $3k → 9%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%NATIONAL BANKERS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE IND: $125k → 14%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $5k → 12%Strong Women Strong Girls: $1k → 16%ONE FAMILY: $3k → 16%Chinese Information and Service Center: $2k → 9%TARGET HUNGER: $15k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $5k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $5k → 16%Community Family Centers: $1k → 16%Self-Help for the Elderly: $1k → 10%Chinatown Community Children's Center: $2k → 10%ASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $10k → 14%GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 14%GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 14%Raised by a Village: $500 → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $10k → 14%PACIFIC BRIDGE ARTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%St Joseph Center: $2k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $4k → 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

VT
WA
NY
MA
OR
NV
NJ
CA
MO
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 36 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
111

Total granted

$21M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+5%

Still filing today

81%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $496k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    3× · 2021–2024 · $9.1M · revenue +89%
  • TB
    THE BROAD
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.9M · revenue ×12
  • GA
    GRAMEEN AMERICA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +182%

Funded once

  • VL
    Voto Latino - Immigrant Neighbor Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • EC
    EQUALITY CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2022 · $133k · revenue +4%
  • CR
    CALIFORNIA REINVESTMENT COALITION
    one grant, 2021 · $125k

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
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
2
Aapi Equity Alliance

Aapi equity alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations that advocates for the rights and needs of the asian and pacific islander (api) community in the greater los angeles area, with particular focus on low-income, immigrant,…

Human Services
3
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
4
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
5
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
6
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
7
Asian American Lead

To empower AAPI youth in underserved communities through culturally responsive programming and advocacy.AALEAD envisions a United States in which all youth are supported, empowered, and celebrated within equitable, abundant and thriving…

Human Services
8
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.

Philanthropy
9
The Asian American Foundation

The asian american foundation (taaf) serves the aapi community in their pursuit of belonging and prosperity that is free from discrimination, slander and violence, in furtherance of its charitable mission taaf conducts.

Civil Rights
10
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

—
11
Asian Inc

The core mission of ASIAN, Inc. is the empowerment of the Asian American Community to achieve social equality by reducing dependency to create and expand access to opportunities in the areas of business development, housing and education.…

Community Improvement
12
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 1990 Institute and the most unlike its peers is The Broad. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsLgbtq+ Community SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsJewish Community Organizati…Youth Development ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Women & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Senior Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%13%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr17%5%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr13%52%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/124
the rest of the field
14%
26,001/186,854

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 175 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/120
Grantees still filing
68/120
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $9,057,462 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESTHE BROAD — $2,894,898 · Arts & CultureTHE BROADASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $2,111,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCOACADEMY FOUNDATION — $1,900,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY FOUNDATION+14 more — $885,750 · Arts & CultureGRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $2,876,039 · Community ImprovementGRAMEEN AMERIC…THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE — $140,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $35,000 · Community ImprovementVoto Latino - Immigrant Neighbor Fund — $1,000,000 · OtherVoto Latino …Quincy Institute for Responsible — $200,000 · OtherQuincy Insti…CALIFORNIA REINVESTMENT COALITION (CRC) — $125,000 · OtherRise Economy — $100,000 · OtherMayor's Fund LA — $100,000 · Other+98 more — $1,138,200 · Other+98 moreGOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL BANKERS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesPacific Bridge Arts Foundation — $45,000 · Human ServicesTarget Hunger Inc — $25,000 · Human Services+17 more — $86,000 · Human ServicesEQUALITY CALIFORNIA — $133,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action — $100,000 · Civil Rights80-20 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · Civil Rights+5 more — $37,500 · Civil RightsUNITED WAY INC — $169,045 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $100,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $32,500 · PhilanthropyHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $100,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $35,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Education+9 more — $40,500 · Education
Arts & Culture$16,849,110Community Improvement$3,051,039Other$2,663,200Human Services$731,000Civil Rights$315,500Philanthropy$301,545Education$253,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $9,057,462 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE BROAD — $2,894,898 over 4y, 17% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $2,876,039 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $2,111,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION — $1,900,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL — $355,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMuseIque — $250,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetUNITED WAY INC — $169,045 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE — $140,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA — $133,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetRise Economy — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetSAN GABRIEL VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $46,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget80-20 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetPacific Bridge Arts Foundation — $45,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $29,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAAUNCH Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWNET — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian American Pacific Islander Leaders — $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTarget Hunger Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAPIs Mobilize — $20,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 1990 INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTELACU EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHEAL THE BAY — $11,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN YOUTH CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DALLAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC — $10,000 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cathay Bank FoundationWells Fargo FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …The James Irvine Foun…The California Endowm…Asian Pacific FundKaiser Foundation Hos…Mufg Union Bank Found…The California Wellne…Weingart FoundationUnion Pacific Foundat…
Cathay Bank FoundationCA52× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cathay Bank Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Endowment · Asian Pacific Fund · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · The California Wellness Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization East West Bank 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association — 3% of income from government
  • Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Financial Beginnings — 1% of income from government
  • One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to East West Bank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to East West Bank 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.

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 175 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines