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Hong-Yen & Lin-Run Hsu Charitable Fnd Foundation at a glance

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Hong-Yen & Lin-Run Hsu Charitable Fnd Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$464k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$310k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Religion$2.5MHealth$683kScience & Tech$240kArts & Culture$90kHuman Services$83kEducation$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$15k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
  • $250k+1 grant · $310k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION$310,000
ZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER$95,500
BRION RESEARCH INSTITUTE$30,000
CHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
PRESBYTERIAN DISASTER ASSISTANCE$5,000
CITY OF HOPE$3,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $10k → 8%SUN TEN MUSEUM INC: $45k → 10%CITY OF HOPE: $3k → 14%ALABAMA AEROSPACE AND AVIATION SCHOOL: $50k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION: $310k → 10%ZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $156k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN DISASTER ASSISTANCE: $10k → 15%CHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $10k → 8%SUN TEN MUSEUM INC: $45k → 10%PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION: $310k → 10%ZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $96k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA): $10k → 15%CHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $10k → 8%IRVINE TAIWANESE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 10%PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION: $310k → 10%ZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $87k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA): $5k → 15%CHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $10k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION: $310k → 10%ZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $87k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN DISASTER ASSISTANCE: $5k → 15%PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION: $310k → 10%ZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $82k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA): $5k → 15%PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION: $310k → 10%ZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $76k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA): $5k → 15%PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION: $310k → 10%ZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $52k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION: $300k → 10%ZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $46k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 8 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$3.6M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+17%

Still filing today

38%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • TP
    THE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS INDIANA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +109% · 80% of their budget
  • ZM
    ZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $680k
  • BR
    BRION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $240k

Funded once

  • AA
    ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IT
    IRVINE TAIWANESE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 12 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS INDIANA: $2,470,000 · OtherTHE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS INDIANAZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $680,000 · OtherZAUAN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTERBRION RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $240,000 · OtherBRION RESEARCH INSTITUTE+8 more: $270,500 · Other+8 moreALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 · Education
Other$3,660,500Education$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS INDIANA: $2,470,000 over 8y, 80% of budgetSUN TEN MUSEUM INC: $90,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS INDIANA ↗
  • Who funds SUN TEN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hong-Yen & Lin-Run Hsu Charitable Fnd Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hong-Yen & Lin-Run Hsu Charitable Fnd Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
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    How do I get to Hong-Yen & Lin-Run Hsu Charitable Fnd Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hong-Yen & Lin-Run Hsu Charitable Fnd Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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