· Private foundation
Jae S Lim 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of Jae S Lim Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k51 grants · $217k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $1,000,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH | $25,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATE | $14,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $9,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $9,000 |
| MAHWAH HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MAHWAH HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $4,800 |
| NORTH HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| WINDSOR HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| DOVER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| PORTLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 75% of Jae S Lim Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Washington and Lee University2× · 2023–2024 · $270k · revenue +58%
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2021 · $39k · revenue +116%
GIRLS WHO CODE INC2× · 2018–2019 · $13k · revenue +28%
Funded once
THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +38%- WCWoburn Council of Social Concern Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +27%
University of Illinois Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +70%
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education and Research
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 66 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jae S Lim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jae S Lim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Arlington Eats Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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