How much does I S Wong Foundation give?

I S Wong Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,626,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does I S Wong Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (51%), International (23%), Education (7%).

Who are I S Wong Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Strategic Resource Group ($3.9M), International Justice Mission ($1.2M), Thornston Educational Fund ($690k).

Does I S Wong Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does I S Wong Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as I S Wong Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation, The Maclellan Foundation Inc.

Where is I S Wong Foundation based?

I S Wong Foundation is based in CA.

I S Wong Foundation

I S Wong Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

I S Wong 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.

$1.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$400k

Largest

01What it funds

0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$6.4MInternational$2.9MEducation$890kEmployment$386kEnvironment$140kHealth$131kPublic Safety & Disaster$120kFood & Nutrition$71kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k20 grants · $345k
$50k–250k9 grants · $881k
$250k+1 grant · $400k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
STRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP	$400,000
CRU	$162,250
THORNSTON EDUCATION FUND	$150,000
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION	$150,000
EAST ASIA SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY	$100,000
CURE INTERNATIONAL	$100,000
REVELATION MEDIA	$69,000
ISIK ABLA MINISTRIES	$50,000
PERSECUTION PROJECT FOUNDATION	$50,000
Individual grant recipient	$50,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$30,000
WORLD CONCERN	$30,000
OXFAM AMERICA	$30,000
SAT - 7 USA	$30,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS SOUTHERN CA REGI	$30,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of I S Wong Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

I S Wong Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 41 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$932k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+18%

Still filing today

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $274k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalReligionArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthEducationOther

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

IJ
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +82%
SN
SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA
6× · 2018–2025 · $489k · revenue +71%
WR
WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS
7× · 2017–2023 · $185k · revenue +163%

Funded once

TC
THE CLEAR FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +428%
CA
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +156%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $50k

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.

Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services

Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion

Redeem International

Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.

International

Ummah Relief International

Ummah relief international is a dedicated grassroots relief organization providing humanitarian services to bring help and hope to thousands of victims of natural and human disasters with quick and targeted action.

International

Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion

Relief International Inc

Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…

International

Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International

InitiativeGlobal

To join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.

Religion

World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Hungry Inc; the most unlike its peers is Immerse Nonprofit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 104 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

60/62

Grantees still filing

38/62

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Religion$5,032,486Other$4,160,533International$2,285,634Education$730,000Philanthropy$176,500Arts & Culture$171,000Environment$50,000

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.

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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO19.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Give Lively Foundation Inc · The Elevate Prize Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Impactassetsinc · Greater Horizons · American Express 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 I S Wong Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from I S Wong Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home