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Ho Chen Family Foundation at a glance

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Ho Chen 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.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$121kReligion$60kHealth$46kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kEnvironment$33kHuman Services$33kPhilanthropy$20kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$15,000
COVENANT HOUSE$15,000
STANDUP FOR KIDS$15,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC$14,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$11,000
HOPE IN A SUITCASE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE IN A SUITCASE: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Ho Chen Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ho Chen Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$169k · 6 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$169k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
InternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    3× · 2017–2022 · $33k · revenue +76%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    2× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $28k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • AE
    ACCESS EVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH HOUSTON TX
    one grant, 2024 · $60k
  • MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +138%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -17%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
6
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Covenant House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACCESS EVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH HOUSTON TX: $60,000 · OtherACCESS EVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH HOUSTON TXALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIAT: $38,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSO…NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $28,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INCAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $19,800 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSSStandUp for Kids: $15,000 · OtherStandUp for KidsNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $8,000 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $33,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFDIRECT RELIEF: $30,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFWORLD VISION INC: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INCWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $8,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTEHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOVENANT HOUSE: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPE IN A SUITCASE: $5,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $11,000 · EnvironmentPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $14,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$168,800International$144,000Philanthropy$20,000Human Services$20,000Environment$16,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Animals$14,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ho Chen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ho Chen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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