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Fongsong Life Foundation at a glance

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Fongsong Life Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$212k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$596kInternational$22kPublic Benefit$16kArts & Culture$12kRecreation & Sports$12kYouth Development$2kFood & Nutrition$1kCivil Rights$1k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$75,000
SHINSHIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,060
SOAR FOUNDATION$14,550
WWII PACIFIC WAR MEMORIAL HALL$10,000
PEACH FOUNDATION$9,000
HANLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF AMER$6,000
BRIDGE ROAD INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIO$4,500
YOUTH 4 GOOD FOUNDATION$2,000
CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$800
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PEACH FOUNDATION: $17k → 7%CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $8k → 8%SHIN SHIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%WWII PACIFIC WAR MEMORIAL HALL: $10k → 10%CALIFORNIA FFA FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%BLU EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $600 → 14%LAFAYETTE PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $5k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%PEACH FOUNDATION: $16k → 7%CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $4k → 8%SHIN SHIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%WWII PACIFIC WAR MEMORIAL HALL: $1k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $68k → 10%PEACH FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $4k → 8%SHINSHIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%WWII PACIFIC WAR MEMORIAL HALL: $1k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%PEACH FOUNDATION: $13k → 7%CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $800 → 8%SHIN SHIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%PEACH FOUNDATION: $12k → 7%THE MILPITAS COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL: $3k → 8%SHIN SHIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%PEACH FOUNDATION: $11k → 7%SHIN SHIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%PEACH FOUNDATION: $9k → 7%YOUTH 4 GOOD FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%SHIN SHIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%SOAR FOUNDATION: $16k → 10%SOAR FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%SOAR FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%SOAR FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%SOAR FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%SOAR FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%SOAR FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%BRIDGE ROAD INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIO: $8k → 10%HANLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF AMER: $6k → 10%HANLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF AMER: $6k → 10%HANLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF AMER: $5k → 10%BRIDGE ROAD INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIO: $5k → 10%BRIDGE ROAD INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIO: $4k → 10%BRIDGE ROAD INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIO: $3k → 10%HANLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF AMER: $2k → 10%BRIDGE ROAD INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIO: $2k → 10%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$575k · 9 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$575k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+30%

Still filing today

56%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $243k · revenue +21%
  • TP
    THE PEACH FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $92k · revenue +11%
  • TS
    THE SOAR FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • LP
    Lafayette Partners in Educationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • TM
    THE MILPITAS COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • CF
    CALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +6%
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
Global Educ Campaign

Dosti sets up and manages schools in asian countries

Philanthropy
2
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
—
3
Hua Xia Education Foundation
Education
4
Us - China Policy Foundation
—
5
Cyrus Tang Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Helen Gee Chin Scholarship Foundationc/O Calvin Chin Trustee

The helen gee chin scholarshup foundation was founded to honor the memory of helen g. chin, wife of sifu chin of calvin chin's martial arts academy, inc. (ccmaa) the scholarhip is open to any student who is enrolled full- time as a college…

Philanthropy
7
Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundationinc

Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation, Inc. ("FFOF") was established by five alumni from Fudan Fuzhong, the high school affiliated with Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Fudan University is one of the leading institutes of higher education…

Education
8
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
9
Hkanc Scholarship Foundation

The foundation's sole activity is the awarding of scholarships to undergraduate and graduate university students of high academic distinction. this is based on the belief that investing in today's youth will help to ensure that students…

Philanthropy
10
Vietnam Education Fund
Education
11
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Foundation of America (Sjtufa)
Education
12
Foundation to Support Education Worldwide
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Peach Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ww Ii Pacific War Memorial Hall. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $243,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONTHE PEACH FOUNDATION: $92,200 · EducationTHE PEACH FOUNDATIONTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYTHE SOAR FOUNDATION: $65,760 · EducationTHE SOAR FOUNDATIONHANLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $18,950 · Education+2 more: $5,750 · EducationSHIN SHIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $92,460 · OtherSHIN SHIN EDUCATION FO…BRIDGE ROAD INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIO: $21,950 · OtherBRIDGE ROAD INTERNATIO…GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · OtherGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSI…+4 more: $6,631 · OtherCIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $16,200 · Youth DevelopmentWW II PACIFIC WAR MEMORIAL HALL: $12,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$500,660Other$133,041Youth Development$16,200Arts & Culture$12,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $243,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEACH FOUNDATION: $92,200 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SOAR FOUNDATION: $65,760 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $16,200 over 4y, 88% of budgetWW II PACIFIC WAR MEMORIAL HALL: $12,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLafayette Partners in Education: $5,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $1,052 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLU Educational Foundation: $600 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PEACH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE SOAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HANLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds WW II PACIFIC WAR MEMORIAL HALL ↗
  • Who funds Lafayette Partners in Education ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLU Educational Foundation ↗

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.

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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 Fongsong Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fongsong Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 16 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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