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Guilian 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.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$216kHealth$96kEnvironment$80kScience & Tech$66kCrime & Legal$10kPublic Benefit$5kPhilanthropy$4kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC Berkeley Foundation$1,000
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 — 87% of grant dollars ($433k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($66k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PITTSBURGH CHINESE CULTURAL CENTER: $600 → 11%UC Berkeley Foundation: $1k → 10%LEARNSERVE INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $160k → 12%007 Benefit LTD: $1k → 6%HOPE CHINESE SCHOOL: $4k → 8%UMD College Park Foundation: $1k → 11%UC Berkeley Foundation: $1k → 10%LearnServe International: $3k → 14%University of New Haven (Inst of Forensic Science): $90k → 12%THE MADERIA SCHOOL: $22k → 6%HOPE CHINESE SCHOOL: $4k → 8%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%LearnServe International: $1k → 14%HENRY C LEE INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE: $10k → 12%CCCAA: $1k → 8%UC Berkeley Foundation: $1k → 10%LearnServe International: $1k → 14%University of New Haven (Inst of Forensic Science): $6k → 12%WONDERS EARLY LEARNING AND EXTENDED DAY: $5k → 8%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%Womble Bond Dickinson: $15k → 14%WONDERS EARLY LEARNING AND EXTENDED DAY: $5k → 8%UC Berkeley Foundation: $1k → 10%The Washington Monthly: $5k → 14%Airslope LLC: $80k → 8%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%ONENESS FAMILY MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 8%ONENESS FAMILY MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 8%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 — 13% of all-years giving ($66k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
China$66k · 1 grant

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$137k · 6 repeat orgs$361k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$137k
$361k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+76%

Still filing today

50%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationSocial SciencePhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • UO
    University of New Haven (Inst of Forensic Science)
    2× · 2020–2021 · $96k
  • OF
    ONENESS FAMILY MONTESSORI SCHOOL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k
  • WE
    WONDERS EARLY LEARNING EXTENDED DAY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of New Havengraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $160k · revenue +42%
  • AL
    Airslope LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
  • NH
    NANJING HENGHE SOFTWARE COMPANY
    one grant, 2018 · $66k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

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Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
2
Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School

To inspire and prepare young people to create a better world by challenging them to reach their full potential in a nurturing chinese/english educational environment.

Education
3
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
4
Institute for Experiential Learning Inc

The mission of the washington internship institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage…

Education
5
District of Columbia International School

To inspire inquiring, engaged, knowledgeable and caring secondary students who are multilingual, culturally competent, and committed to proactively creating a socially just and sustainable world.

Education
6
Rollins College

Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…

Education
7
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
8
Washington International School

Our mission is to be an exemplary learning community - enriched by differences, informed through inquiry, global in reach.

Education
9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Yinghua International School

Our mission is to enable academic excellence and prepare students for compassionate, effective, and ethical global citizenship by facilitating english and chinese language acquisition and instilling a passion for lifelong learning.

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wonders Early Learning Extended Day and the most unlike its peers is 7 Benefit Ltd. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of New Haven (Inst of Forensic Science) — $96,000 · OtherUniversity of New Haven (Inst of Forensic Science)Airslope LLC — $80,000 · OtherAirslope LLCNANJING HENGHE SOFTWARE COMPANY — $65,500 · OtherNANJING HENGHE SOFTWARE COMPANYIndividual grant recipient — $14,933 · OtherONENESS FAMILY MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherWONDERS EARLY LEARNING EXTENDED DAY — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $9,000 · OtherUniversity of New Haven — $160,000 · EducationUniversity of New HavenThe Madeira School — $22,000 · EducationThe Madeira SchoolHENRY C LEE INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE INC — $10,000 · EducationLearnserve International — $7,050 · EducationHOPE CHINESE SCHOOL INC — $7,000 · EducationWASHINGTON MONTHLY INSTITUTE — $5,000 · Social Science7 BENEFIT LTD — $1,000 · PhilanthropyPittsburgh Chinese Culture Center Inc — $600 · Arts & Culture
Other$285,433Education$206,050Social Science$5,000Philanthropy$1,000Arts & Culture$600

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of New Haven — $160,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Madeira School — $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLearnserve International — $7,050 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE CHINESE SCHOOL INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON MONTHLY INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget7 BENEFIT LTD — $1,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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.

  • Who funds University of New Haven
  • Who funds The Madeira School
  • Who funds WONDERS EARLY LEARNING EXTENDED DAY
  • Who funds HENRY C LEE INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE INC
  • Who funds Learnserve International
  • Who funds HOPE CHINESE SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds WASHINGTON MONTHLY INSTITUTE
  • Who funds 7 BENEFIT LTD
  • Who funds Pittsburgh Chinese Culture Center Inc

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Guilian 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • University of New Haven2% of income from government
  • Henry C Lee Institute of Forensic Science Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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