California · Private foundation
Happy Cal Wang Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $450
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $295k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Happy Cal Wang Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $891 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $3k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $3k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $2k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $1k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $2k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $2k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $2k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $2k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation | $2,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $1,408 | 7 | 0% |
| Mountain View Elementary | $1,011 | 4 | n/a |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ticket to Dream Foundation | $312 | 1 | 0% |
| Fresno Chinese Gospel Church Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Valley Center for the Blind | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Fresno Rescue Mission Inc | $291 | 1 | 0% |
| Valley Animal Center | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Pacific Whale Foundation | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Happy Cal Wang Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Happy Cal Wang Foundation
- How much does Happy Cal Wang Foundation give?
- Happy Cal Wang Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $2,837 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Happy Cal Wang Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), International (13%), Health (12%).
- Who are Happy Cal Wang Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation ($2k), Khan Academy Inc ($1k), Mountain View Elementary ($1k).
- Does Happy Cal Wang Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Happy Cal Wang Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Happy Cal Wang Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Happy Cal Wang Foundation based?
- Happy Cal Wang Foundation is based in CA.
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