· Private foundation
HSL Charitable 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHINESE AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| MANDARIN BAPTIST CHURCH OF PASADENA | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +70% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Northwestern University6× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +41%- NPNISHAN PRESS INC2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue +81%
- GTGOOD TV USA MINISTRIES5× · 2018–2023 · $2k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- CFCAF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $2k
- FGFULL GOSPEL BUSINESS MENS FELLOWSHI EAST LOS ANGELES CHINESE CHAPTERone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +5%
- ODOPERATION DAWNgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +95%
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.
Religious
the church is focusing teaching and preaching christianity and reach for those who are not christian. collaborating with other missionaries to expand the bible preaching and let people knows who Jesus Christ is
ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally
The purpose of this organization is to let people know jesus is the son of god, through holy sprit, for those who believe in him will not be perished, but will have everlasting life.
Our mission is to spread the Word and love of God throughout Eastern Asia, particularly among hill-tribe people. The countries we work in include Thailand, Burma, and China. We primarily accomplish this by supporting missionaries in the…
To assist small Chinese churches in growth, breakthrough, and support ministers financially; to advance God's kingdom ministry via multimedia.
Help churches in china fulfill the great commission through training emerging christian leaders. train leaders in evangelism, evangelistic preaching, pastoral care and leadership through seminaries and bible school in china. distribute…
Christian Ministry Activities
To help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by providing resources and financial support to projects throughout Asia
The mission of Love China Ministries International (LCMI) is to build up the Body of Christ (His Church) throughout the world by all legal available means. Love China's major priority was to the House Church Movement in the People's…
We do bible translation with the kingdom perspective, therefore we go beyond making "a" new chinese translation for the chinese only; we strive to serve the ethnic minority groups in china and other countries as well. crossing national and…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 26 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 NEW CARE STREAM INC ↗
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- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
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- Who funds FULL GOSPEL BUSINESS MENS FELLOWSHI EAST LOS ANGELES CHINESE CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DAWN ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds TOUCH LIFE MISSION DR GORDON S LEE ↗
- Who funds American Friends of International China Concern Limited ↗
- Who funds UPWARD BOUND STUDY CENTER INC ↗
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: MY Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 HSL Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from HSL Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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