· Private foundation
Grace and Li Yu Family 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 $10k9 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $498k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $187,500 |
| WISH OF ANGEL'S MISSIONS | $110,000 |
| HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC | $100,000 |
| BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDAT | $50,000 |
| Grace Truth Community Church of Los | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $25,000 |
| PANDA CARES FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| THE UC REGENTS | $17,400 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $10,000 |
| MICAH'S VOICE | $7,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET | $1,875 |
| Youth Business Alliance | $1,400 |
| Braille Books for Blind Children | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
142 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 128 since wound down; 5 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k 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
- PHPasadena Hospital Association Ltd6× · 2019–2025 · $501k · revenue +25%
- PCPANDA CARES FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $97k · revenue +6%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles5× · 2019–2025 · $76k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $195k · revenue +64%
- TATHE ANDERSON SCHOOL AND DR MICHEAL YEH DISCRETIONARY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $171k
- TATHE ANDERSON SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $121k
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.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
177 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. 177 of the 269 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WISH OF ANGEL'S MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds PANDA CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MORNING LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds AHMC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Logos Evangelical Seminary ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
- Who funds Micahs Voice ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Seckinger Foundation Corporation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Bernard Weinberg Foundation · Gat Family Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Edwin D Marks Animal Foundation · B & R Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Grace and Li Yu Family 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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