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GUAN&FENG 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.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of GUAN&FENG FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,250
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GENERATION SERVE$2,200
BOOK SPRING$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,750
PALAMA SETTLEMENT$1,500
YOUNG ADULT CANCER CANADA$1,450
PROJECT HAWAII INC$1,350
STREET YOUTH$1,250
AUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE$1,250
PLANT WITH PURPOSE$1,200
NA KAMA KAI$950
Individual grant recipient$950
Individual grant recipient$880
COMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS$875
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$850
02The need
03

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 US giving — 75% of grant dollars ($21k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 25% that went abroad ($7k) is mapped below.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOUTH WEST KEY PROGRAM: $200 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Beyond the US — 25% of all-years giving ($7k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
China$4k · 1 grant
Canada$3k · 3 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your field

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.

1
Autism Service Center of San Antonio Dba Autism Community Network

THE MISSION OF THE CENTER IS TO MAXIMIZE THE POTENTIAL OF CHILDREN WITHAUTISM BY PROVIDING EARLY DIAGNOSIS FOR THOSE WITH LIMITED ACCESS ANDEDUCATING AND EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT THEM. The primary goals of ACN are to provide…

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2
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
3
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
4
Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services
5
Child Crisis Arizona

To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.

Crime & Legal
6
Team Kids Inc

To empower our kids to change the world.

Youth Development
7
Zoe Empowers

Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…

International
8
Austin Allies

Austin Allies' mission is to organize meaningful volunteer opportunities for families in the Greater Austin area by partnering with local nonprofits and those that they serve. Austin Allies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization started by…

Youth Development
9
Americas Kids Belong

Americas Kids Belong works to dramatically improve the experiences and outcomes of kids in foster care so they can thrive in safe,loving families, supported by Foster Friendly communities where they belong.

Human Services
10
A House in Austin

A nbsp;house nbsp;in nbsp;austin nbsp;offers nbsp;holistic nbsp;programs nbsp;to nbsp;nurture nbsp;secure nbsp;bonds nbsp;for nbsp;healthy nbsp;families nbsp;and nbsp;bright nbsp;futures nbsp;early nbsp;learning nbsp;experiences…

Education
11
Kids in Nutrition

Kids In Nutrition (KIN) is a nationwide student-led movement dedicated to food justice, sustainable systems, and improved health outcomes for youth through food literacy and access. Recognizing that lifelong habits develop early, KIN…

Food & Nutrition
12
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation Serve and the most unlike its peers is Minis & Friends. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%10%<5yr15%5%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%3%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr12%19%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
14%
3,942/29,130

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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
7/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FUDAN UNIVERSITY — $3,525 · OtherFUDAN UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $1,950 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUNG ADULT CANCER CANADA — $1,450 · OtherYOUNG ADULT CANCER CANADASTREET YOUTH — $1,250 · OtherSTREET YOUTHIndividual grant recipient — $950 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $880 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — $850 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS — $875 · OtherCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS+15 more — $2,830 · Other+15 moreGENERATION SERVE — $2,200 · EducationGENERATION SERVEBookSpring — $2,000 · EducationBookSpringAUSTIN FREE-NET — $200 · EducationThe Lucky Foundation — $200 · EducationAUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION — $200 · EducationAUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $1,250 · HealthAUTISM RESEA…Phoenix Children's Hospital — $1,000 · HealthPhoenix Chil…CRANIO CARE BEARS — $300 · HealthCRANIO CARE …THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC — $200 · HealthTHE MIRACLE …THE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS — $200 · HealthTHE COMFORT …PALAMA SETTLEMENT — $1,500 · Crime & LegalFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED — $1,200 · InternationalWELL AWARE INC — $200 · InternationalPROJECT HAWAII INC — $1,350 · Youth DevelopmentNA KAMA KAI — $950 · EnvironmentEcoRise Youth Innovations — $200 · Environment
Other$14,560Education$4,800Health$2,950Crime & Legal$1,500International$1,400Youth Development$1,350Environment$1,150

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBookSpring — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $1,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRANIO CARE BEARS — $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetStreet Youth Ministry of Austin — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart of Texas Baptist Camp and Conference Center — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN FREE-NET — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEcoRise Youth Innovations — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKnowbility Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lucky Foundation — $200 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST KEY PROGRAMS INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELL AWARE INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAce Athletics Youth Soccer Academy — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Austin Community Foun…Better Business BureauJpmorgan Chase Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Greater Houston Commu…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for Good
Austin Community Foundation IncTX20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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 GUAN&FENG 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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