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Ellen G and Edward G Wong Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ellen G and Edward G Wong Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$294kHuman Services$65kHealth$57kArts & Culture$51kEnvironment$49kYouth Development$32kReligion$30kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$127k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SAN DIEGO MILITARY OUTREACH MIN$3,400
SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK$3,400
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOLUTION FOR CHANGE: $3k → 11%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.
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$278k · 19 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
42

Total granted

$278k
$279k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+6%

Still filing today

68%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyReligionEducationHuman 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

  • MC
    Miramar College Foundation Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +213%
  • CR
    COASTAL ROOTS FARM
    2× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +218%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF CHINA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +262%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF GRROSSMONT CUYAMACA C
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • BS
    BETHEL SEMINARY SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • NORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +65%
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
Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego

to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences

Arts & Culture
2
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans

Health
3
Arts Education Connection San Diego

Arts Education Connection San Diego engages professional teaching artists to provide high-quality arts education programs in all art forms for students, educators, families and communities, advocating for, leading and advancing education…

Arts & Culture
4
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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5
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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6
San Diego Christian College

San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.

Education
7
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
8
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
9
San Diego Theatres Inc

San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…

Arts & Culture
10
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
11
Curebound

The organization's mission is to provide funding for the best cancer research ideas in san diego. all proceeds from curebound stay in san diego to fund innovative and collaborative cancer research.

Health
12
Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator

Pasadena bio collaborative incubator is a nonprofit organization focused on economic development and job creation in southern california. we encourage the growth of an innovative biotechnology industry by providing educational/training…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of San Diego County; the most unlike its peers is East West Christian Outreach 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

32 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. 32 of the 63 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORKSHOP FOR WARRIER: $45,500 · OtherWORKSHOP FOR WARRIERFOUNDATION FOR GROSSMONT CUYAMACA C: $40,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR GROSSMONT CUYAMACA CFOUNDATION OF GRROSSMONT CUYAMACA C: $30,000 · OtherFOUNDATION OF GRROSSMONT CUYAMACA CBETHEL SEMINARY SAN DIEGO: $20,000 · OtherPROMIS2KIDS: $15,000 · OtherCOASTAL ROOTS FARM: $15,000 · Other+37 more: $220,181 · Other+37 moreTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $110,000 · EducationTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATI…Miramar College Foundation Inc: $15,500 · EducationMiramar College Founda…OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationHOUSE OF CHINA (HOC): $14,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWords Alive: $8,500 · Arts & CultureEAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN STORY THEATER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureEAST WEST CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INC: $28,000 · ReligionFOREVER BALBOA PARK: $12,000 · ReligionResounding Joy Inc: $12,500 · HealthVISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $11,850 · HealthSAN DIEGO EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · HealthINTERACTIVE MEDIA INSTITUTE: $3,000 · HealthBurn Institute: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGIRLS RISING: $8,000 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$385,681Education$130,500Arts & Culture$46,500Religion$40,000Health$37,350Philanthropy$20,000Human Services$10,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEAST WEST CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INC: $28,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetMiramar College Foundation Inc: $15,500 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCOASTAL ROOTS FARM: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSE OF CHINA (HOC): $14,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetNORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $12,581 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResounding Joy Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFOREVER BALBOA PARK: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $11,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBurn Institute: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOUTDOOR OUTREACH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSan Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWords Alive: $8,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS RISING: $8,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $5,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERACTIVE MEDIA INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $2,500 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.

The San Diego Foundat…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Jewish Community Foun…Walter J & Betty C Za…The Nordson Corporati…Pratt Memorial FundFrench Fund Samuel Ka…Samuel I & John Henry…Sempra FoundationThe Parker FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…
The San Diego FoundationCA46× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley 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 Ellen G and Edward G Wong Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellen G and Edward G Wong Family 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    How do I get to Ellen G and Edward G Wong Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ellen G and Edward G Wong Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 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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