· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP3× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +69%- HHHIS HANDS ON AFRICA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +236%
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 GLOBALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +42%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hong Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hong Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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