· Private foundation
J & X Chen 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Harker School | $1,000 |
| Lighthouse Mentorship | $1,000 |
| SOAR Foundation | $300 |
| African Library | $95 |
| A Little More Support | $8 |
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.
Your US giving — 87% of grant dollars ($17k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($3k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Beyond the US — 13% of all-years giving ($3k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- THTHE HARKER SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +21%
- TTEECORG2× · 2020–2021 · $3k
- GFGO FUND ME FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $270
Funded once
- TFTianmu Foundationone grant, 2024 · $650
- SSSHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $300 · revenue 0%
- APASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $250 · revenue +10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Advance leadership and excellence of science and technology of the United States and to advocate for voices and rights of Asian Americans.To enhance professional communication and foster scientific discoveries and technological…
Dosti sets up and manages schools in asian countries
Promote the excellence of members of USTC and helping the students with finacial needs. Promote the academic and cultural exchange between USTC and researchers and students in USA Raising donations from alumni and elsewhere. Present…
The mission of North American Chinese Educational Foundation is to pool its resources and expertise to improve Chinese community educational excellence.
To promote, propagate and perpetuate chinese language and culture to assist and guide member chinese schools for their betterment to encourage cooperation and to facilitate the interchange of ideas and experiences among member chinese…
The objectives of the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons shall be to cultivate, nurture and support the advancement of Asians in academic surgery. To achieve these objectives, the Society shall:1. Enhance the personal and professional…
Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation, Inc. ("FFOF") was established by five alumni from Fudan Fuzhong, the high school affiliated with Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Fudan University is one of the leading institutes of higher education…
Our mission is to support K-8 Mandarin instruction within the San Mateo-Foster City School District in order to enable students from all backgrounds the opportunity to develop a mastery of Mandarin Chinese language and appreciation of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gofundmeorg and the most unlike its peers is A Little More Support. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE HARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MENTORSHIP ↗
- Who funds SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds USA BADMINTON ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OPEN MUSIC COMPETITION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Alameda County Science and Engineering Fair Association ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE MORE SUPPORT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 J & X Chen 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.
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.
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