· Private foundation
Fulu 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LFLB COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,608 |
| NCKUNAAFI | $5,000 |
| LAKE FOREST LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB | $2,216 |
| GLCASC | $1,000 |
| LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL | $61 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $35 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $35 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $25 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $25 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +68%
- CHCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY2× · 2020–2024 · $823 · revenue +27%
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $285 · revenue +25%
Funded once
- GUGROW UP NEW ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $1k
- PPACCAGCone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 74 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.
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- Who funds ST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART ↗
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fulu Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fulu Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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