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Hong 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZOE | $830,000 |
| EASTERN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $760,000 |
| BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP | $20,000 |
| PASTOR RICK'S DAILY HOPE | $5,000 |
| HIS HAND ON AFRICA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $760k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP3× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +69%- HHHIS HANDS ON AFRICA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +295%
KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- BIBSF INTERNATIONAL LLCone grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue +20%
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Familiesone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -4%- IGIRIS GLOBALone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.
To provide to the general public the following services: 1) Individual Psychological Counseling, 2) Play therapy for children, 3)Marriage Counseling, 4) Psychological Evaluations, 5)Financial Counseling, 6)Career Counseling, 7)psychiatric,…
To share Christian compassion and love in an effort to alleviate spiritual, physical, emotional and mental suffering around the world. We help care for orphans and vulnerable children, teens and women in need. We provide training and…
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
Christian world-wide missions and ministries to see lives changed by the power and truth of Gods Word.
Bluesky global ministries' vision is to see the multinational community of nairobi, kenya, spiritually transformed and equipped to influence the world for god's glory. we pursue this by building relationships through adventure, using three…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bible Study Fellowship and the most unlike its peers is Home On the Green Pastures. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds HIS HANDS ON AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds BSF INTERNATIONAL LLC ↗
- Who funds Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families ↗
- Who funds IRIS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds HOME ON THE GREEN PASTURES ↗
- Who funds TASSEL INC ↗
- Who funds GLORY REINS RIDING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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 Hong 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.
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.
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