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Frances K & John K Tsui Foundation at a glance

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Frances K & John K Tsui Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$245k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$157k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$449kEducation$296kPhilanthropy$40kRecreation & Sports$35kHousing & Shelter$30kFood & Nutrition$10kSocial Science$8kInternational$1k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $157k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRAUB FOUNDATION$156,900
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$25,000
HAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$15,000
SUI WAH SCHOOL$10,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$5,000
GLOBAL CITIZEN INITIATIVE$1,000
CAMPUS COMPACT$1,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$1,000
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$100
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $25k → 7%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 16%MAUI FOOD BANK: $10k → 9%SUI WAH SCHOOL: $10k → 9%GLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE: $5k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $30k → 5%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $15k → 7%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $1k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%SUI WAH SCHOOL: $6k → 9%GLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE: $5k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $15k → 7%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $500 → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%SUI WAH SCHOOL: $5k → 9%GLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE: $5k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $10k → 7%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $500 → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%SUI WAH SCHOOL: $4k → 9%GLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $10k → 7%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $500 → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $100 → 9%GLOBAL CITIZEN INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%CAMPUS COMPACT: $1k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $100 → 9%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $100 → 9%STRAUB FOUNDATION: $157k → 9%STRAUB FOUNDATION: $120k → 9%STRAUB FOUNDATION: $110k → 9%STRAUB FOUNDATION: $61k → 9%HAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%HAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $100 → 9%KAHALA SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $30k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
HI
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$691k · 9 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$691k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+48%

Still filing today

78%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SF
    Straub Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $449k · revenue +62%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +42%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +48%
  • KS
    KAHALA SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +41%
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $22k
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
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
4
'Iolani School

To develop educated, well-rounded individuals who are well prepared for college.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
Hawaii Pacific University

Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Punahou School; the most unlike its peers is Phillips Exeter Academy. 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

13 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. 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Straub Foundation: $449,100 · HealthStraub FoundationWellesley College: $75,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $42,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBU…PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $30,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADE…GLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE INC: $17,000 · EducationGLOBAL CITIZENS INITI…+2 more: $1,400 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNI…SUI WAH SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $22,043 · OtherNIGHTGALE BAMFORD SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherHAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsKAHALA SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$449,100Education$165,400Community Improvement$75,000Other$64,543Philanthropy$40,000Recreation & Sports$35,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 budgetStraub Foundation: $449,100 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetWellesley College: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAHALA SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUI WAH SCHOOL: $25,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetGLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPUS COMPACT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $400 over 4y, 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

National Philanthropi…
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Frances K & John K Tsui Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frances K & John K Tsui Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Campus Compact: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
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 Frances K & John K Tsui Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Frances K & John K Tsui 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 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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