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East West Foundation at a glance

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East West 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.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$61kPhilanthropy$50kFood & Nutrition$35kHealth$25kEducation$16kCrime & Legal$10kScience & Tech$3kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$219k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USTA$5,000
EAST WEST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$600
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 (FY22–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%James Blake Foundation: $3k → 17%James Blake Foundation: $3k → 17%M4K Richmond: $500 → 7%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

MI
MA
OH
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$98k · 6 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +121% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
20

Total granted

$98k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%
+12%

Still filing today

33%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • EW
    East West Community Foundation
    2× · 2020–2025 · $51k
  • SF
    Santa Fe Food Depot
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
  • 1E
    100 ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue -60%

Funded once

  • RE
    RepresentUs Education Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -61%
  • TF
    The Food Depot
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • ES
    Esperanza Shelter Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
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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2
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
3
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
4
American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine

The mission of the american college of veterinary internal medicine (acvim) is to enhance animal and human health by advancing veterinary internal medicine through training, education, an discovery. the acvim is the american certifying…

—
5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
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
7
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
8
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
9
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
10
Medical College of Va Foundation

To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.

Education
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Brain Tumor Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is M4K Richmond 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

12 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. 12 of the 27 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

East West Community Foundation: $50,600 · OtherEast West Community FoundationSanta Fe Food Depot: $20,000 · OtherSanta Fe Food DepotThe Food Depot: $10,000 · OtherThe Food DepotEsperanza Shelter Inc: $10,000 · OtherEsperanza Shelter IncCommunities in School: $10,000 · OtherCommunities in SchoolIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · OtherMint Juleps for Massey: $5,000 · OtherUSTA: $5,000 · Other+8 more: $10,800 · Other+8 moreRepresentUs Education Fund: $50,000 · Public BenefitRepresentUs Education Fund100 ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Public Benefit100 ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION IN…AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC: $10,000 · HealthWESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC: $1,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $1,000 · HealthTHE JAMES BLAKE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesM4K RICHMOND INC: $500 · Human ServicesVMI Foundation: $1,000 · EducationAVERETT UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $1,000 · Education
Other$136,400Public Benefit$61,000Health$12,500Human Services$5,500Education$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget100 ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetEsperanza Shelter Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JAMES BLAKE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVMI Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVERETT UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetM4K RICHMOND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Verizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Verizon FoundationNJ11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 East West Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East West Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 27 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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