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Hoa & Liu Family Foundation at a glance

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Hoa & Liu 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.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$9k
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$18kReligion$4kFood & Nutrition$2kAnimals$2kHousing & Shelter$2kEnvironment$2kHuman Services$1kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$741k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tzu Chi Buddhist Compassion Re Hual$9,110
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los$2,000
Hawaii Foodbank$1,500
Salvation Army$1,000
Maui Humane Society$500
Hawaiian Humane Society$500
Austin Pets Alive$157
Austin Animal Services$150
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Grand Canyon Conservancy: $1k → 16%The Greater Boston Food Bank: $500 → 16%Teen Challenge: $100 → 8%Los Padres Forest Association: $500 → 10%Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los: $2k → 14%Salvation Army: $1k → 9%Kauai Humane Society: $315 → 9%University of Hawaii Foundation: $300 → 9%Austin Pets Alive: $157 → 10%Smithsonian Institution: $500 → 14%Plan International USA: $420 → 7%Plan USA: $456 → 14%Pike Market Senior Center Foot Bank: $200 → 9%Save Ellis Island: $300 → 6%Salvation Army: $1k → 9%Tzu Chi Buddhist Compassion Re Hual: $9k → 13%The Greater Boston Food Bank: $100 → 16%Teen Challenge: $200 → 8%Tzu Chi Foundation: $509 → 14%Hawaii Foodbank: $2k → 9%Austin Animal Services: $150 → 10%Plan International USA: $420 → 7%Animal Shelter Donations: $200 → 9%Tzu Chi Foundation: $3k → 13%Christians Righteousness Education: $2k → 8%Tzu Chi Foundation: $100 → 14%Hawaiian Humane Society: $500 → 9%Plan International USA: $420 → 7%PAWS Cat City: $500 → 9%Tzu Chi Foundation: $3k → 13%Christians Righteousness Education: $1k → 8%Plan International USA: $105 → 7%University District Foot Bank: $200 → 9%Tzu Chi Foundation: $2k → 13%Saratoga Pediatric Sub-Acute: $1k → 8%Saratoga High School Sports Program: $161 → 8%Humane Society: $70 → 8%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
MA
NV
NJ
RI
CA
VA
AZ
DC
HI
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 51% of Hoa & Liu Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 17%.

Hoa & Liu Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.0% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15k · 7 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$15k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+19%

Still filing today

57%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
AnimalsEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • TC
    Tzu Chi Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7k
  • CR
    CHRISTIAN RIGHTEOUSNESS EDUCATION CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +181%
  • SA
    Salvation Army
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k

Funded once

  • GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +38%
  • SP
    Saratoga Pediatric Sub-Acute
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • LP
    LOS PADRES FOREST ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
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
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
2
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
3
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust

Hawaiian islands land trust dba hawai'i land trust (hilt) is hawai'i's statewide land trust that is both a hawai'i 501(c)3 nonprofit, and a nationally accredited land trust. hilt's mission is to protect and steward the lands that sustain…

Environment
4
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
5
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
6
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
7
Pacific Bird Conservation

To ensure the continued existence of pacific island birds that are under threat from introduced species and habitat loss.

Animals
8
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
9
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
10
Pohaku Pelemaka

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance: the intrinsic qualities of the lower puna area, native hawaiian wellbeing, and the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and practices in partnership with county, state, government,…

Human Services
11
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
12
Na Koa Manu Conservation Inc

To further the protection and recovery of native hawaiian birds and plants through on the ground management, forest restoration, and public outreach and education. this is carried out by supporting conservation research and management…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kauai Humane Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christian Righteousness Education Center. 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

14 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. 14 of the 27 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tzu Chi Buddhist Compassion Re Hual: $9,110 · OtherTzu Chi Buddhist Compassion Re HualTzu Chi Foundation: $6,684 · OtherTzu Chi FoundationSalvation Army: $2,315 · OtherSalvation ArmyHabitat for Humanity of Greater Los: $2,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of Greater LosSaratoga Pediatric Sub-Acute: $1,000 · Other+10 more: $2,881 · Other+10 moreCHRISTIAN RIGHTEOUSNESS EDUCATION CENTER: $2,840 · EducationCHRISTIAN …UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $300 · EducationUNIVERSITY…PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $1,821 · InternationalHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 · AnimalsKAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $315 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $157 · AnimalsGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · EnvironmentSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $500 · Arts & CultureSAVE ELLIS ISLAND INC: $300 · Arts & CultureBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $609 · Religion
Other$23,990Education$3,140International$1,821Food & Nutrition$1,500Animals$1,472Environment$1,000Arts & Culture$800Religion$609

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 budgetCHRISTIAN RIGHTEOUSNESS EDUCATION CENTER: $2,840 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $1,821 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS PADRES FOREST ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $315 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE ELLIS ISLAND INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Hoa & Liu Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoa & Liu 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Save Ellis Island Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 27 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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