· Private foundation
Gong Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $610k
- $250k+4 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $3,000,000 |
| TRELLIS FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| MIT | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PRIME COALATION | $100,000 |
| MAX S BAUCUS INSTITUTE | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $79,564 |
| KESEB CO THE FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT | $50,000 |
| JAGUAR FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TWIST FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CSP NORTH AMERICA GRANT | $50,000 |
| DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS ACTION LAB | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,075 |
| CHINESE CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Trustees of Princeton University3× · 2022–2024 · $5.0M · revenue -36%- KCKESEB CO THE FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT3× · 2022–2024 · $150k
- CNCSP NORTH AMERICA GRANT2× · 2023–2024 · $70k
Funded once
- JIJFFLABS INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · 42% of their budget
- KFKATAPULT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $55k
- SMSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Education and Research
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 18 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gong Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gong Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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