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Hua and Jiang Family 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.

$34k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

59% of Hua and Jiang Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to University Of Southern California, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Hua and Jiang Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $34k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’21
5
’22
1
’23
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Education$261kHuman Services$24kArts & Culture$13kReligion$6kCommunity Improvement$4kInternational$2kHousing & Shelter$500Youth Development$440Other$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
$309
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBOURS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES$20,000
XIU NING CULTURE FOUNDATION$12,500
CA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$329
WPY BSA GOLDEN GATE$309
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM$250
PAYPAL GO FUND ME$200
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$120
PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN$110
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%East Bay SPCA: $100 → 10%PAYPAL GO FUND ME: $200 → 7%NEIGHBOURS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES: $20k → 8%XIU NING CULTURE FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%Children's Museum of Sonoma County: $195 → 9%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $440 → 10%CA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $329 → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $250 → 12%FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF SG VALL: $5k → 14%UNICEF USA: $314 → 17%Odisha Society of the Americas: $2k → 6%PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $100 → 14%PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN: $110 → 12%university of north carolina: $61k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CH: $90k → 13%NEIGHBOURS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES: $2k → 8%EBTCC: $5k → 9%WPY BSA GOLDEN GATE: $309 → 10%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $120 → 10%University of Southern California: $100k → 14%Financial GPS Group: $2k → 8%SAN RAMON FC: $5k → 9%Shepherd's Gate: $500 → 10%EBTCC: $4k → 9%GILEAD BIBLE CHURCH: $1k → 9%ROOMS OF HOPE INC: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

1
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
2
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
3
San Jose Children's Discovery Museum

Children's discovery museum of san jose inspires creativity, curiosity and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture
4
California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture
5
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
6
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
7
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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8
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
9
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
10
National Space Society

The vision of nss is people living and working in thriving communities beyond the earth, and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity.

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11
The Newark Museum Association

Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.

Arts & Culture
12
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Fund for Unicef and the most unlike its peers is Neighbours Friends and Families 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CH — $89,600 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHuniversity of north carolina — $61,000 · Otheruniversity of north carolinaEBTCC — $9,000 · Other+11 more — $14,578 · Other+11 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANEIGHBOURS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES INC — $21,700 · Arts & CultureNEIGHBOURS F…XIU NING CULTURE FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Arts & CultureXIU NING CUL…+2 more — $315 · Arts & CultureTHE ODISHA SOCIETY OF THE AMERICAS — $1,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $314 · InternationalShepherds Gate — $500 · Housing & ShelterMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $250 · AnimalsJAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON — $110 · Environment
Other$174,178Education$100,000Arts & Culture$34,515International$1,814Housing & Shelter$500Animals$250Environment$110

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOURS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES INC — $21,700 over 2y, 69% of budgetTHE ODISHA SOCIETY OF THE AMERICAS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetShepherds Gate — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL #023 — $440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $314 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY — $195 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON — $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOMS OF HOPE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC9.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 organization Hua and Jiang Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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