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Joseph and Anthony Chon Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Joseph and Anthony Chon 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.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$25kHealth$3kArts & Culture$748Community Improvement$665Animals$530Environment$210Recreation & Sports$125Philanthropy$67Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$99
Median grant
1
States reached
$137k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARK BAPTIST CHURCH$2,000
GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK$99
CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM FOUNDATION$36
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SIERRA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $26 → 6%PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%KQED: $240 → 10%USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $46 → 11%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $304 → 12%CA STATE PARK: $60 → 12%FAMILY HEALTH & HOUSING FOUNDATION: $50 → 14%THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $67 → 9%NATIONAL AUTO MUSEUM: $28 → 10%GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK: $99 → 8%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $226 → 12%CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $36 → 12%BELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $20 → 9%ARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $5k → 8%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $190 → 12%SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $960 → 12%MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $129 → 9%ARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 8%ARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 8%ARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 8%ARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 8%ARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 8%ARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 8%HAKONE FOUNDATION: $150 → 8%ARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 8%HAKONE FOUNDATION: $119 → 8%ARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 8%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29k · 4 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$29k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135 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 & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SB
    SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +38%
  • MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $720 · revenue +105%
  • HF
    Hakone Foundation
    2× · 2019–2021 · $269 · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCI
    one grant, 2017 · $665
  • KI
    KQED INC
    one grant, 2017 · $240 · revenue -33%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $129 · revenue +166%
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
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
2
San Francisco Maritime National Park Association

Education & preservation of maritime history and knowledge; engaging or assisting in the maintenance, acquisition & operation of maritime & maritime-related museums, exhibits, libraries & parks; supporting & assisting the San Francisco…

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
4
Lone Star Flight Museum

Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.

Arts & Culture
5
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
6
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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7
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
10
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

Creating excellent exhibits and educational experiences that celebrate the santa barbara channel and illuminate our rich connections with the sea.

Arts & Culture
11
Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium

Inspire wonder and appreciation for science and the natural world through programs, exhibits, and research.

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Sonoma County

The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Flight Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sutter Bay Medical Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $25,370 · OtherARK BAPTIST CHURCH+5 more: $1,042 · OtherSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,537 · HealthSUTTER BA…+1 more: $50 · HealthMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $720 · AnimalsKQED INC: $240 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $129 · Arts & CultureUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $46 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $36 · Arts & CultureGILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK: $99 · EnvironmentSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $67 · PhilanthropySierra State Parks Foundation: $26 · Recreation & Sports
Other$26,412Health$2,587Animals$720Arts & Culture$451Environment$99Philanthropy$67Recreation & Sports$26

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,537 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $720 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHakone Foundation: $269 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $129 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $67 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH & HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $46 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra State Parks Foundation: $26 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Joseph and Anthony Chon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Anthony Chon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 16 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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