· Private foundation
Ew Orchid Garden Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Taiwan University Alumni A | $36,723 |
| Silicon Valley Chinese American Com | $8,800 |
| PCC EDUCATION FUND CORPORATION | $4,500 |
| ALLIANCE CULTURAL FOUNDATION INT'L | $3,600 |
| Nylon Cheng Liberty Foundation | $3,310 |
| JAACUC | $3,300 |
| HAWAII INSTITUTION OF INTERDISCIPLI | $3,000 |
| FUJI ONE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Fujen University Foundation | $2,800 |
| Chinese Music Teachers Association | $2,500 |
| CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNTATI | $2,400 |
| Friends of Children with Special Ne | $2,000 |
| Chinese American History Society | $2,000 |
| SPRING MUSIC ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Chinese American Coalition for Comp | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 89% of grant dollars ($324k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($42k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $5k) 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.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($42k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFIRST CHINESE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH7× · 2017–2025 · $113k
- NTNational Taiwan University Academic3× · 2023–2025 · $42k
- NTNational Taiwan University Alumni A2× · 2023–2025 · $42k
Funded once
- FFCUMCone grant, 2020 · $7k
- YQYAO QI ZONG FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +414%
- HCHsin-Tien Covenant Churchone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
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.
Providing professional training of Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture, Chinese herbology, acupressure, Qigong and so on, granting the students Masters degree. Its a three to four years teaching program.
How this is measured
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 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Friends of Children with Special Needs ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YAO QI ZONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PCC Education Fund Corporation ↗
- Who funds FU-JEN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE CULTURAL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SPRING MUSIC ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SF Don Sir Charity Fund ↗
- Who funds LUKE CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MISSION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jou & Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ew Orchid Garden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ew Orchid Garden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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