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James and Cecilia Tse Ying 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.

$231k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$1.8MReligion$240kFood & Nutrition$177kHuman Services$83kPhilanthropy$27kHealth$20kYouth Development$10kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA$100,000
HOUR OF POWER MINISTRIES$50,000
HAWAI'I FOODBANK$50,000
HALE KIPA INC$10,000
CHURCH OF THE CROSSROADS$10,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN NEVADA$3,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$2,000
SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD$1,000
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY$100
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:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HALE KIPA INC: $10k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MN
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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 edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 9 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$2.2M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+78%

Still filing today

78%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +45%
  • FB
    Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +106%
  • SY
    SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DAVIDSON ACADEMY OF NEVADA
    one grant, 2017 · $46k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • CH
    CHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +18%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
University of New Haven

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
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York and the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,671,168 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYHOUR OF POWER MINISTRIES — $230,000 · OtherHOUR OF POWER MINISTRIESSIERRA ASSOCIATION OF FOSTER FAMILIES — $80,000 · Other+5 more — $99,141 · OtherFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $127,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $50,000 · EducationWellesley College — $11,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — $6,100 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · EducationCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada — $27,000 · PhilanthropyCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropySCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC — $20,000 · InternationalHALE KIPA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,000 · Animals
Other$2,080,309Food & Nutrition$177,000Education$74,600Philanthropy$37,000International$20,000Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000Animals$1,000

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,671,168 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $127,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA ASSOCIATION OF FOSTER FAMILIES — $80,000 over 4y, 71% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada — $27,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC — $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College — $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHALE KIPA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — $6,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,000 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 James and Cecilia Tse Ying 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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, FY2025

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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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