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Fengzheng Cultural Foundation Inc at a glance

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Fengzheng Cultural Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$53kReligion$16kPhilanthropy$6kArts & Culture$2kHealth$307International$200Community Improvement$25Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNLV Foundation$3,000
Chinese mandarin Church$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,000
United Way$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$150
Philadelphia Horticultural Society$149
UNLV School of Nursing$50
Charitable Rotary Club$25
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Aaron Luo: $500 → 10%SD Chinese Mandarin Church: $3k → 11%USA CARE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $200 → 14%TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL: $25 → 14%SONGS OF THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%LUBBOCK CHINESE CHURCH: $1k → 17%ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIEN: $232 → 14%Charitable Rotary Club: $25 → 10%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $500 → 14%IMMANUEL CHINESE ALLIANCE CHURCH: $500 → 10%UNLV Foundation: $3k → 13%Donation to United Way: $2k → 14%Philadelphia Horticultural Society: $149 → 10%SAN DIEGO CHINESE MANDARIN CHURCH: $2k → 11%LUBBOCK CHINESE CHURCH: $500 → 17%Rotary Club of Frankfort: $25 → 10%ICAC Church: $500 → 10%Chinese mandarin Church: $1k → 13%Donation to United Way: $1k → 14%SAN DIEGO CHINESE MANDARIN CHURCH: $2k → 11%IMMANUEL CHINESE ALLIANCE CHURCH: $300 → 10%Lillian Che: $1k → 13%UNITED WAY: $1k → 14%SD Chinese Mandarin Church: $2k → 11%ICAC Church: $300 → 10%Anthony Che: $1k → 13%UNITED WAY: $500 → 14%SD Chinese Mandarin Church: $1k → 11%Kairo Lewis: $500 → 13%OTHER DONATION: $200 → 14%WIMAY: $500 → 11%Kingston Wroten: $500 → 13%Kumbum Chastieling: $200 → 14%SAN DIEGO CHINESE MANDARIN CHURCH: $300 → 11%Kairo Lewis: $500 → 13%United Way: $2k → 11%Kameron Lewis: $500 → 13%UNLV School of Nursing: $50 → 11%Kingston Wroten: $500 → 13%HARVEST EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF SAN D: $2k → 11%CHAIYA MEDITATION MONASTERY: $500 → 13%HECSD CHURCH: $1k → 11%HECSD CHURCH: $200 → 11%TORREY PINES HIGH SCHOOL: $174 → 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 12 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
18

Total granted

$64k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-11%

Still filing today

8%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
PhilanthropyReligionEducationHealthOther
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

  • DT
    Donation to UNLV School of Nur
    2× · 2022–2023 · $31k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +18%
  • SC
    SD Chinese Mandarin Church
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6k

Funded once

  • VE
    VALLEY ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDAT
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +30%
  • SO
    Songs of the Phoenix Foundation InC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -19%
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
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Foundation of America (Sjtufa)
Education
2
Chan Lu Lan Ruo Buddist Temple

Study and advancement of Buddhism religion

Religion
3
Yunguang Chan Center

Religious culture and education, meditation and religions comparative study

Education
4
California University - Silicon Valley

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.

Education
5
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
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6
University of Spiritual Research
Religion
7
United Airlines Pilots Retirement Foundation
—
8
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
9
University of Phoenix Foundation
Education
10
United Buddhist Foundation

1. Our website is continually updated with modern technology and provides tools to support Buddhist study and research. All of our sutra translations are freely accessible to anyone with an internet connection. 2. The Buddhist books for…

Religion
11
University of Santa Monica

The University of Santa Monica is dedicated to communicating the principles and practices of spiritual psychology worldwide through the process of soul-centered education.

Education
12
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children; the most unlike its peers is Songs of the Phoenix Foundation 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

8 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. 8 of the 37 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Donation to UNLV School of Nur: $31,075 · OtherDonation to UNLV School of NurSD Chinese Mandarin Church: $5,850 · OtherSD Chinese Mandarin ChurchSAN DIEGO CHINESE MANDARIN CHURCH: $3,800 · OtherSAN DIEGO CHINESE MANDARIN CHURCHUNITED WAY: $2,500 · OtherDonation to United Way: $2,500 · Other+26 more: $16,778 · Other+26 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $12,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEV…UNITED WAY INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropySongs of the Phoenix Foundation InC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCHAIYA MEDITATION MONASTERY: $500 · ReligionUSA CARE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $200 · ReligionTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $25 · Health
Other$62,503Education$12,100Philanthropy$4,000Religion$700Health$25

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $12,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAIYA MEDITATION MONASTERY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE: $232 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSA CARE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds Songs of the Phoenix Foundation InC ↗
  • Who funds CHAIYA MEDITATION MONASTERY ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds USA CARE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF FRANKFORT ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fengzheng Cultural Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fengzheng Cultural Foundation Inc. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Fengzheng Cultural Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Fengzheng Cultural Foundation Inc 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 37 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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