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Jason & Heidi Yao Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,550
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$18k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Jason & Heidi Yao Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$7k67%
FY20226$9kn/a
67% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Religion$13kCivil Rights$550Health$204Recreation & Sports$200Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
We Are Brave Together$10410%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

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About Jason & Heidi Yao Family Foundation

How much does Jason & Heidi Yao Family Foundation give?
Jason & Heidi Yao Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $6,750 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Jason & Heidi Yao Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (81%), Civil Rights (4%), Health (1%).
Who are Jason & Heidi Yao Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: We Are Brave Together ($104).
Does Jason & Heidi Yao Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jason & Heidi Yao Family 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.
Where is Jason & Heidi Yao Family Foundation based?
Jason & Heidi Yao Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 8 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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