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Fang Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$208k
Granted FY2019
22
Grants FY2019
22
Organizations funded FY2019
95%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 22
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
8
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 95% of the organizations Fang Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterInternationalCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201922$208k95%
FY20181$9k100%
FY20171$10kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Human Services$60kHealth$40kEducation$20kFood & Nutrition$20kHousing & Shelter$19kInternational$15kReligion$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
PA
CA
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Fang Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gateway Community Services Maine$30,000224%
Friend to Friend$10,00011%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10,00010%
Donorschooseorg$10,00010%
Farm Cafe Inc$10,00013%
Patten Free Library$10,0001n/a
Penick Village Inc$10,00010%
AIDS Fund$10,0001n/a
Samaritan House Inc$10,0001n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,00010%
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc$10,00010%
Emmanuel Episcopal Church$10,0001n/a
The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc$10,00010%
Valley Rescue Mission$8,5001n/a
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project$8,07110%
International Relief Teams$5,00010%
Insight Meditation Society Inc$5,0001n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fang Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGateway Community Services Maine: $30,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetFriend to Friend: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFarm Cafe Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPenick Village Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation of Firsthealth Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImmigrant Legal Advocacy Project: $8,071 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Relief Teams: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

North Carolina Community FoundationNC13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

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About Fang Foundation

How much does Fang Foundation give?
Fang Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $208,071 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Fang Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Health (18%), Education (9%).
Who are Fang Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Gateway Community Services Maine ($30k), Friend to Friend ($10k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($10k).
Does Fang Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fang Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fang Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Fang Foundation based?
Fang Foundation is based in NC.

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 23 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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