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Hakka Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$313k
Granted FY2023
26
Itemized grants FY2023
26
Organizations funded FY2023
65%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$247k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 26
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Total assets, FY2023
$3.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Hakka Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202326$247k65%
FY202220$179k80%
FY202012$131kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$157kEducation$122kArts & Culture$107kHealth$46kEnvironment$32kCivil Rights$29kCommunity Improvement$28kReligion$13kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($494k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Hakka Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTaiwanese American Scholarship Fund: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFranklin Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetArcadia Performing Arts Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Arcadia Public Library Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetHenry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArcadia Chinese Association: $1,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCare Mission USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Hakka Foundation

How much does Hakka Foundation give?
Hakka Foundation reported 26 itemized grants totaling $246,798, out of $312,798 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Hakka Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (7%), Education (6%), Arts & Culture (5%).
Who are Hakka Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Taiwanese American Scholarship Fund ($15k), Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation ($13k), Franklin Foundation ($10k).
Does Hakka Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hakka Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hakka Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Hakka Foundation based?
Hakka Foundation is based in CA.

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 45 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $240k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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