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Gao and Sons Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON CHINESE CHURCH | $36,803 |
| FORT BEND COMMUNITY CHURCH | $22,500 |
| CHINESE CHRISTISAN HERALD CRUSADES INC | $10,840 |
| FORT BEND CARE CENTER | $8,200 |
| CRU MINISTRIES | $3,900 |
| KERITH RAVINE MINISTRY | $3,130 |
| OMF INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| LIEBENZELL USA | $1,300 |
| EAST AND WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $1,200 |
| CHRISTAR INTERNATIONAL INC | $500 |
| WEST HOUSTON CHINESE CHURCH | $150 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFCHINESE FAMILY FOR CHRIST7× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +590%
- CCChristian Communications Inc USA2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +34%
- DTDallas Theological Seminary2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- NHNEW HEART MUSIC MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally
To reach out to the chinese worldwide in local evangelism and foreign missions. this purpose is facilitated through the use of missionaries, evangelism training and literature.
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
Provide theological education
Help churches in china fulfill the great commission through training emerging christian leaders. train leaders in evangelism, evangelistic preaching, pastoral care and leadership through seminaries and bible school in china. distribute…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To edify and make disciples of mainland china and overseas chinese christians to become devoted to only one great person: jesus christ the lord and savior and be motivated by only one greater purpose: building up his church for his glory
China Evangelical Seminary Association, Inc was formed for the dissemination of religious education and instruction abroad, to raise and provide funds for those purposes, for the training and educations of qualified students at the China…
The organizations mission is the support, training, and equipping of Christian missionaries to Asia, the Middle East, and Africa
To spread and promote gospel and Christian faith to China
To support each of Chin Baptist and Chin Christian Churches in USA and to work among the Chins in USA for development in education, body and spirit. To carry the joint mission to spread the Good News of Jesus Chris as its biggest priority.
To Train Christian Leaders and Plant Churches in China
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Communications Inc Usa and the most unlike its peers is Kerith Ravine Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHINESE FAMILY FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds CHINESE FAMILY FOR CHRIST USA INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Communications Inc USA ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds Kerith Ravine Ministry ↗
- Who funds Logos Evangelical Seminary ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds CHRISTAR INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HEART MUSIC MINISTRIES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Wong Family Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gao and Sons Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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