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Gbc International Bank Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$101kHuman Services$82kYouth Development$37kHealth$34kHousing & Shelter$32kRecreation & Sports$26kCommunity Improvement$19kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$981k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APA FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES$12,000
HERALD FAMILY CENTER$9,000
ENTREPRENEUR EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC$5,000
EDUCARE FOUNDATION$5,000
LOS ANGELES EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
GRANDMA'S HOUSE OF HOPE$3,000
UNITE-LA INC$3,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CAL$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
ORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC$1,000
ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND$1,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY$1,000
YES (YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES)$1,000
SHORELINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $5k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $5k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $4k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$306k · 22 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$306k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+130%

Still filing today

77%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther
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

  • AF
    APA FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $54k · revenue +26%
  • RB
    ROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER
    4× · 2017–2020 · $26k · revenue +38%
  • YE
    Youth Eastside Services
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • MP
    MONTEREY PARK VICTIM FUNDS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • EE
    EECI ENTREPRENEUR PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
  • SC
    SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +16%
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
Asian American Center of Santa Clara

The mission of Asian American Community Center of Santa Clara County (AASC) is to provide health, human, and economic development services to low income families and individuals to enable them to become actively participating citizens in…

Human Services
2
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture Inc

Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc. is a family of community health centers whose mission is to be the medical home for our patients by providing personalized, quality health care services in a culturally accessible manner.

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3
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
4
Southeast Asian Development Center

The mission of seadc is to foster a healthy, thriving and self-sufficient southeast asian community.

Youth Development
5
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
6
Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California

To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.

—
7
Asian Inc

The core mission of ASIAN, Inc. is the empowerment of the Asian American Community to achieve social equality by reducing dependency to create and expand access to opportunities in the areas of business development, housing and education.…

Community Improvement
8
Aapi Equity Alliance

Aapi equity alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations that advocates for the rights and needs of the asian and pacific islander (api) community in the greater los angeles area, with particular focus on low-income, immigrant,…

Human Services
9
Palo Alto Community Child Care

Palo alto community child care (paccc) partners with parents and regional agencies to provide quality, professional and accessible childhood care, and education.

Human Services
10
National Asian Pacific Center on Aging

Since 1979, empowering older adults through advocacy and access to resources essential to their well-being and independence, regardless of language or culture.

—
11
Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce

To educate our members and the community by developing programs designed to strengthen and expand the potential of asian pacific islander (api) businesses and the api community. sacc's core competency and our competitive advantage is our…

—
12
Community Youth Center of San Francisco

Our mission is to encourage a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life. Every year, CYC impacts over 8,000 San Francisco youth and their families,…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander; the most unlike its peers is Entrepreneur Educational Cente. 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

30 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. 30 of the 39 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
25/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APA FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $54,000 · OtherAPA FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICESROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER: $26,000 · OtherROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTEREEC YOUNG ADULT ENTREPENEUR PROGRAM: $22,000 · OtherEEC YOUNG ADULT ENTREPENEUR PROGRAMLOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $18,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPHERALD FAMILY CENTER: $18,000 · OtherHERALD FAMILY CENTERBoys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley: $15,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel ValleyLOS ANGELES EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 · OtherMONTEREY PARK VICTIM FUNDS: $10,000 · OtherEECI ENTREPRENEUR PROGRAM: $9,000 · Other+13 more: $49,000 · Other+13 moreYouth Eastside Services: $24,000 · HealthYouth East…VITAL ACCESS CARE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthVITAL ACCE…Center for Human Services: $3,000 · HealthCenter for…+2 more: $2,000 · Health+2 moreGRANDMA'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterAFFORDABLE LIVING FOR THE AGING: $8,000 · Housing & Shelter1979 LEGACY CORP: $6,000 · Community ImprovementWEST ANGELES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,000 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEUR EDUCATIONAL CENTE: $5,000 · Community ImprovementASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,500 · Community ImprovementTelegraph Hill Neighborhood Association: $2,000 · Community ImprovementJunior Achievement of Northern California: $10,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $9,000 · InternationalSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $15,500 · Human ServicesDELHAVEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · Education
Other$231,500Health$34,000Housing & Shelter$26,000Community Improvement$22,500International$19,000Human Services$17,500Education$10,000

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 budgetAPA FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $54,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER: $26,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Eastside Services: $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $18,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGRANDMA'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAFFORDABLE LIVING FOR THE AGING: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCARE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS TODAY WOMEN TOMORROW: $6,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget1979 LEGACY CORP: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITE-LA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST ANGELES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVITAL ACCESS CARE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetENTREPRENEUR EDUCATIONAL CENTE: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Human Services: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELHAVEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTelegraph Hill Neighborhood Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH EAST MEDICAL SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHORELINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cathay Bank FoundationCalifornia Community …Weingart FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The California Wellne…The Annenberg Foundat…The California Endowm…Asian Pacific FundUnited Way IncElbridge Stuart Found…Tides Foundation
Cathay Bank FoundationCA28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cathay Bank Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Wellness Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The California Endowment · Asian Pacific Fund · United Way Inc · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Tides Foundation

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 Gbc International Bank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gbc International Bank Foundation. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Gbc International Bank Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gbc International Bank 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 39 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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