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Herbert Kong 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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$114kEducation$20kInternational$10kYouth Development$2kEnvironment$800Health$600Philanthropy$550
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$271k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Venture Christian Church$9,500
The Christian and Missionary Allian$1,500
Calvary Christian Academy$1,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospita$600
World Vision$360
Chinese Church in Christ South Vall$300
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $360) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ISHIMWE CENTER: $360 → 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.

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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$140k · 10 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$140k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
0%

Still filing today

30%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsReligionHealthOther

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

  • HC
    HOME CHURCH INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $69k
  • VC
    VENTURE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    4× · 2022–2025 · $42k
  • CM
    CHRISTA MCAULIFFE PARENT FACULTY GROUP
    3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue -52%

Funded once

  • DW
    Dreams Will Come True Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $800 · revenue -99%
  • A
    AWMPC
    one grant, 2021 · $600
  • GH
    GRAYSTONE HOME & SCHOOL CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $550 · revenue +22%

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.

1
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
2
Global Academy Foundation % Walter Link
Philanthropy
3
Tri-State Christian Academy Inc

Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…

Education
4
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
5
The School for Global Thinkers

Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…

Education
6
The Adtalem Global Education Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
8
Creative Minds International Public Charter School

The mission of the charter school is to cultivate within all of our students the mindset, skills, creativity, and commitment to equity essential in becoming globally aware and independently minded citizens.

Education
9
Gilchrist Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Young Global Leadership Foundation

Global education programs

11
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
12
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Global Trimension Impact Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOME CHURCH INC — $69,240 · OtherHOME CHURCH INCVENTURE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $42,400 · OtherVENTURE CHRISTIAN CHURCHThe Christian and Missionary Allian — $5,000 · Other+11 more — $7,495 · Other+11 moreCHRISTA MCAULIFFE PARENT FACULTY GROUP — $13,786 · EducationCHRISTA MCAUL…THE KING'S ACADEMY — $4,017 · EducationTHE KING'S AC…+1 more — $550 · EducationWORLD VISION INC — $3,440 · InternationalISHIMWE CENTER — $960 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $600 · HealthGLOBAL TRIMENSION IMPACT FOUNDATION — $550 · PhilanthropyMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $500 · AnimalsSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $60 · Religion
Other$124,135Education$18,353International$3,440Human Services$960Health$600Philanthropy$550Animals$500Religion$60

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHRISTA MCAULIFFE PARENT FACULTY GROUP — $13,786 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE KING'S ACADEMY — $4,017 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $3,440 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetISHIMWE CENTER — $960 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDreams Will Come True Foundation — $800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAYSTONE HOME & SCHOOL CLUB — $550 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL TRIMENSION IMPACT FOUNDATION — $550 over 1y, 11% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $60 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.

  • Who funds CHRISTA MCAULIFFE PARENT FACULTY GROUP
  • Who funds THE KING'S ACADEMY
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC
  • Who funds ISHIMWE CENTER
  • Who funds Dreams Will Come True Foundation
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds GRAYSTONE HOME & SCHOOL CLUB
  • Who funds GLOBAL TRIMENSION IMPACT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Herbert Kong 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 23 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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