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Hsu Family Foundation at a glance

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Hsu 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.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$19kInternational$15kEnvironment$15kArts & Culture$11kPhilanthropy$4kCivil Rights$3kPublic Benefit$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,700
Median grant
2
States reached
$190k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STUF UNITED FUND$10,000
NATHAN YIP FOUNDATION$1,700
DENVER BOTANIC GARDEN$1,000
THE WOMAN FOUNDATION OF COLORADO$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%IGNITIUS DING FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%TAIDAN HSU CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRU: $3k → 3%COLORADO DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL: $3k → 7%NATHAN YIP FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%REGIS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%PROJECT KARE: $500 → 12%NATHAN YIP FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%REGIS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%DENVER BOTONIC GARDEN: $4k → 12%NATHAN YIP FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%DENVER BOTANIC GARDEN: $4k → 12%NATHAN YIP FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%BOTANIC GARDEN: $3k → 12%NATHAN YIP FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%COLORADO DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL: $3k → 12%HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $2k → 12%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 6 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$52k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+275%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SU
    STUF UNITED FUND INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +38%
  • NY
    Nathan Yip Foundation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +82%
  • DB
    DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • ID
    IGNITIUS DING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • BG
    BOTANIC GARDEN
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • TH
    TAIDAN HSU CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRU
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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

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.

1
Colorado Asian Pacific United

Celebrate and preserve Asian Pacific American cultures and histories through education.

Civil Rights
2
Institute of Asian Scholars

naisA Global is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to helping talented young Asian professionals unlock their potential and become great leaders. It is the only non-profit of its kind to provide a global platform to…

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3
Us - China Policy Foundation
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4
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.

Philanthropy
5
Fudan University Education Development Foundation

1) Support academic research and talents cultivation in Fudan University. 2) Promote higher education in Fudan University and other educational organizations in China. 3) Strengthen global cooperations of education and research. 4) Enhance…

Education
6
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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7
Dzi Foundation

Dzi partners with local communities in nepal to achieve shared prosperity by ensuring access to basic needs, catalyzing inclusive economic growth, and creating an environment for lasting change.

Human Services
8
New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine

To offer postsecondary education in acupuncture and chinese herbal medicine

Education
9
The Dunhuang Foundation Inc

The dunhuang foundation engages, educates and supports the global community of scholars in exploring and promoting the histories, arts, and cultures of the silk roads.

Arts & Culture
10
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
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11
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development

National CAPACD advances equity and creates vibrant, healthy neighborhoods by mobilizing and strengthening a powerful coalition of community-based organizations working in low-income Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander…

Community Improvement
12
Asianweek Foundation

Encourages the sharing of differences and appreciation of diversity across culture, language, generation and ethnicity, working to strengthen relations among asian pacific islander communities and between asians and non-asians.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Dragon Boat Aka Colorado Dragon Boat Festival; the most unlike its peers is Stuf United Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STUF UNITED FUND INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropySTUF UNITED FUND INCNathan Yip Foundation: $13,230 · PhilanthropyNathan Yip FoundationIGNITIUS DING FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherIGNITIUS DING FOUNDATIONBOTANIC GARDEN: $3,000 · OtherBOTANIC GARDENTAIDAN HSU CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRU: $3,000 · OtherTAIDAN HSU CHARITABLE REM…Organization of Chinese American Inc: $2,500 · OtherOrganization of Chinese A…THE WOMAN FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $1,000 · OtherTHE WOMAN FOUNDATION OF C…PROJECT KARE: $500 · OtherDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $11,600 · EnvironmentDENVER BOTANIC GARD…COLORADO DRAGON BOAT AKA COLORADO DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO D…REGIS UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationREGIS UNI…THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $1,500 · EducationTHE HADAN…INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$28,230Other$15,000Environment$11,600Recreation & Sports$6,000Education$5,500Public Benefit$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTUF UNITED FUND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNathan Yip Foundation: $13,230 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $11,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO DRAGON BOAT AKA COLORADO DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrganization of Chinese American Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hsu Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hsu Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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