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James and Victoria Chang Family Foundation at a glance

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James and Victoria Chang 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.

$192k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.9MYouth Development$1.2MEducation$687kHealth$543kPublic Benefit$210kReligion$165kAnimals$152kScience & Tech$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $187k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW$40,000
MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA$25,000
BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC$20,000
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL$15,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM$15,000
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$15,000
HACKLEY SCHOOL$15,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$12,000
APEX FOR YOUTH INC$10,000
PREP FOR PREP$10,000
LSA FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE$10,000
FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 11%SAVVY LADIES: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 15 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
14

Total granted

$4.8M
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

60%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.8M · revenue ×16
  • AF
    APEX FOR YOUTH INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +127%
  • TC
    THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD
    2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • RH
    REGIS HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • NY
    NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • TM
    THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

1
Boston Architectural College

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

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2
Manhattanville University

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

Education
3
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
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

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
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
7
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
10
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Friars Head Disaster Relief Fund. 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

26 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. 26 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
12/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $1,782,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA+5 more: $120,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreAPEX FOR YOUTH INC: $1,210,000 · Community ImprovementAPEX FOR YOUTH INCTUFTS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $380,000 · OtherTUFTS SCHOOL OF MEDICIN…NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW: $210,400 · OtherNATIONAL BOARD OF REVIE…ST DAVIDS: $165,385 · OtherST DAVIDSTZU CHI FOUNDATION: $152,000 · OtherTZU CHI FOUNDATIONMIT: $70,000 · OtherMIT+13 more: $82,000 · Other+13 moreTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $500,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOO…Trustees of Tufts College: $85,000 · EducationTrustees of Tuft…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $65,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF …PREP FOR PREP: $30,500 · Education+2 more: $30,000 · EducationCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $86,600 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyHACKLEY SCHOOL: $15,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,000 · HealthSAVVY LADIES INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$1,903,000Community Improvement$1,210,000Other$1,059,785Education$710,500Philanthropy$88,600Health$26,000Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $1,782,500 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetAPEX FOR YOUTH INC: $1,210,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $500,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $86,600 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $52,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $30,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHACKLEY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAVVY LADIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Institute of Rural Reconstruction: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriars Head Disaster Relief Fund: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Ford FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford FoundationNY14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 James and Victoria Chang Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James and Victoria Chang Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to James and Victoria Chang Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to James and Victoria Chang Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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