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Joyce and Frank Su Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Joyce and Frank Su 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.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$895kEducation$653kArts & Culture$160kHealth$99kHuman Services$30kPhilanthropy$10kInternational$10kHousing & Shelter$1k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation$65,000
Alliance Cultural Foundation International$50,000
Moringa for love$20,000
Hong Shin Buddhist Center$18,000
Fu Jen University Foundation$2,800
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Dancing with the Elephant: $10k → 14%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 5 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$1.6M
$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionInternationalPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FU
    FU-JEN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $566k · revenue +285%
  • TA
    THE ALLIANCE CULTURAL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +193%
  • MF
    MORINGA FOR LOVE
    5× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BT
    BUDDHIST TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $99k · revenue +89%
  • IB
    International Buddhist Education Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +18%
  • UM
    UCLA Medical School
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
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
American International Budhist Association

Religous guidance for the asian community

Religion
2
Chan Lu Lan Ruo Buddist Temple

Study and advancement of Buddhism religion

Religion
3
Foundation for Chinese Cultural Heritage
Philanthropy
4
The Zhaoyu Cultural Foundation
Education
5
Yunguang Chan Center

Religious culture and education, meditation and religions comparative study

Education
6
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
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7
Lotus Buddhist Congregation

Teaching buddhist religions

Religion
8
Bernard Chiu Charitable Foundation
—
9
Blessed Field Meditation Center

The purpose for which the corporation is formed are: 1. Help the masses who are interested in Buddhism enter the door of Buddha Dharma. Help them get to know the Buddha, all Buddhists original teacher, to learn from the Buddha and to…

Religion
10
Hong Tao Tze Foundation
Human Services
11
The Institute of Buddha Dhamma Studies a Non Profit Corporation
Philanthropy
12
Tu an Meditation Center
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Buddhist Education 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

15 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. 15 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $740,000 · ReligionBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATIONHONG SHIN BUDDHIST CENTER: $115,700 · ReligionHONG SHIN BUDDHIST CENTER+1 more: $7,000 · ReligionFU-JEN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $565,800 · PhilanthropyFU-JEN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONTHE ALLIANCE CULTURAL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $160,000 · InternationalTHE ALLIANCE CUL…BUDDHIST TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $99,200 · InternationalBUDDHIST TZU CHI…GIVE2ASIA: $10,000 · InternationalMORINGA FOR LOVE: $64,000 · EducationInternational Buddhist Education Foundation: $30,000 · EducationTAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,100 · EducationUCLA Medical School: $10,800 · OtherLINENS N LOVE: $10,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherLing Yen Mountain Temple: $2,000 · OtherDANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT: $10,000 · Human ServicesNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCHINESE AMERICAN GOLDEN AGE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Religion$862,700Philanthropy$565,800International$269,200Education$106,100Other$32,800Human Services$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $740,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFU-JEN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $565,800 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE CULTURAL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $160,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetHONG SHIN BUDDHIST CENTER: $115,700 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $99,200 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMORINGA FOR LOVE: $64,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetInternational Buddhist Education Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPURE LAND FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetINLAND CHINESE ASSOCIATION: $2,100 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN GOLDEN AGE ASSOCIATION: $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.

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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 Joyce and Frank Su Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joyce and Frank Su Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 18 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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