· Private foundation
Ed and Susan Yang 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Purdue Research Foundation | $20,000 |
| Connect Church Silicon Valley | $13,050 |
| River of Life Church | $5,300 |
| Global Church Network | $4,121 |
| KDFC | $2,200 |
| Daily Hope Ministries | $2,200 |
| The Rotary Foundation | $1,625 |
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | $1,000 |
| University of the Nations Kona | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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 human-services grants (FY19–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SKSHOTOKAN KARATE OF AMERICA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +41%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +33%
- HIHudson Institute Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +189%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $3k
- PRPurdue Research Foundationone grant, 2020 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To share Gospel with Chinese intellectuals. The goals of the Association are 1. to network and discipline Chinese Christian scholars in North America for their moral and academic excellence, 2. to reach the unreached Chinese academic world…
ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally
China Evangelical Seminary Association, Inc was formed for the dissemination of religious education and instruction abroad, to raise and provide funds for those purposes, for the training and educations of qualified students at the China…
To edify and make disciples of mainland china and overseas chinese christians to become devoted to only one great person: jesus christ the lord and savior and be motivated by only one greater purpose: building up his church for his glory
CDT is an independent, bilingual media organization that brings uncensored news and online voices from China to the world.
Develop and publish multi-media Christian courses for e-learning
To share the message of the gospel of christ through strategic, evangelical, christian endeavors and thus fulfill the great commission and the propagation of the truth in jesus christ.
1) Support academic research and talents cultivation in Fudan University. 2) Promote higher education in Fudan University and other educational organizations in China. 3) Strengthen global cooperations of education and research. 4) Enhance…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
The primary exempt purpose of China Harvest, Inc.: A strategic catalyst for service to Chinese people worldwide.
The Organization is a Christian development organization that provides love, hope, and opportunity to children with disabilities and strives to end abandonment by keeping families together. To accomplish this mission, the Organization…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is On Lok Inc and the most unlike its peers is Silicon Valley Canaan Evergreen Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHOTOKAN KARATE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY CANAAN EVERGREEN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHINA EVANGELISTIC MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds STREAM OF PRAISE MUSIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CEF Norcal ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CANCER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YU-AI KAI JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Global Taiwan Institute ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds TOUCH LIFE MISSION DR GORDON S LEE ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF DINNER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ed and Susan Yang 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.
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.
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