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· Private foundation
HONG W MOY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$86k
Granted FY2024
11
Grants
2
Communities
$33k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of HONG W MOY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
educational
2019
scholarshipenhancechinese
2020
lupusresearchchineseenhancechina
2021
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2022
waldenculturalchinese
2023
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2024
culturalchinese
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- MORNING LIGHT FOUNDATION$32,500
- BOWERS MUSEUM$24,845
- CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE$11,000
- ST THERESE CHINESE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$3,000
- PROJECT VISION$3,000
- CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM$3,000
- The Asian Pacific Cultural Center A$2,000
- PUI TAK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$2,000
- Coalition For A Better Chinese Amer$2,000
- CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVELENT$2,000
- JOHN CHARLES HAINES SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 86% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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 earmarks the money.
About 15% of HONG W MOY FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 32% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
HONG W MOY FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 42% directed abroad (not shown)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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$754k · 15 repeat orgs$540k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +106% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
14
Total granted
$754k
$538k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+106%
+9%
Still filing today
33%
21%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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
MORNING LIGHT FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $232k · revenue +18%- CACHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE6× · 2018–2024 · $97k · revenue +106%
- PVPROJECT VISION2× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +792%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +9%- TDTAISHANSHI DUANFENZHEN WEISHENGYUANone grant, 2020 · $141k
- THTHE HNTINGTON LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
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Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
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East Bay Chinese School
East Bay Chinese School's mission is to provide Chinese language and culture classes to educate our students in the appreciation of Chinese heritage, promote cross-cultural understanding and prepare them in becoming community leaders.
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3
University of Chicago
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Education
4
Chinese American International School
Embrace chinese, become our best selves, and contribute to a better world.
Education
5
Chicago Collegiate Inc
To equip all students in grades five through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
Education
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Tempe Chinese School
Teaching language for students
Education
7
Chinese Language School of S Ca W La
Facilitate the teaching of the Chinese language and culture to children and adults in Los Angeles at a nominal cost.
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8
Pacific East Quality Education
YCIS Silicon Valley is a welcoming school community where all children from preschool through grade 8 are encouraged to find and follow their gifts as they learn in both Chinese and English. Our goal:to help our students become…
Education
9
Central Chinese High School in America
Operate school to teach Chinese language to students from kindergarten to 12th grade.
Arts & Culture
10
Vietnamese Association of Illinois
Vai focuses on serving diverse communities of all ethnicities and religions, fostering unity, and promoting vietnamese american identity.
Human Services
11
Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture
The chicago center for urban life and culture equips college students and other participants to learn from diverse urban communities through innovative programs, seminars, and internships. the chicago center expands the traditional…
Education
12
Chicago Learning Exchange
The Chicago Learning Exchange (CLX) is a nonprofit organization that connects and supports our city's array of out-of-school time youth-focused organizations in order to prepare youth, youth workers, and our city for the future.
Youth Development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pui Tak Christian School and the most unlike its peers is University of Illinois Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$746,952Education$434,500Community Improvement$96,732Arts & Culture$11,500Youth Development$4,000
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.
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.
The Chicago Community TrustIL12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · 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 organisation HONG W MOY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MORNING LIGHT FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 203406668 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MORNING LIGHT FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Hong W Moy Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Hong W Moy Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines