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Ji Fang & Eric Sabol 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.

$29k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
47%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
11 to 17
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$423k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Ji Fang & Eric Sabol Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$21k0%
FY202417$22k47%
FY202316$21k13%
FY202215$21k27%
FY202113$27k54%
FY202011$13kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$26kEducation$20kEnvironment$20kCrime & Legal$13kCivil Rights$11kArts & Culture$11kInternational$6kHuman Services$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ji Fang & Eric Sabol Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSecond Harvest of Silicon Valley: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $23,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $13,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc: $12,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Performing Arts of America: $9,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetKhan Academy Inc: $9,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDirect Relief: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPTA Ca Congress of Parents Teachers and Students Sam Lawson Middle School PTA: $1,200 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMusic At Lawson: $900 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCupertino Educational Endowment Foundation: $450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSave the Redwoods League: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYosemite Foundation: $350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMonta Vista High School Music Boosters Association: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthbay Teen Challenge: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE10.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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How do I get to Ji Fang & Eric Sabol Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ji Fang & Eric Sabol 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.

About Ji Fang & Eric Sabol Foundation

How much does Ji Fang & Eric Sabol Foundation give?
Ji Fang & Eric Sabol Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $28,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Ji Fang & Eric Sabol Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (23%), Education (18%), Environment (17%).
Who are Ji Fang & Eric Sabol Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($26k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($24k), Equal Justice Initiative ($14k).
Does Ji Fang & Eric Sabol Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ji Fang & Eric Sabol 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ji Fang & Eric Sabol Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Ji Fang & Eric Sabol Foundation based?
Ji Fang & Eric Sabol 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 34 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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