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K & W 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.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$103kHealth$42kArts & Culture$15kFood & Nutrition$2kHuman Services$2kEducation$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kHousing & Shelter$330Other$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DACHEN RANG DHARMA CENTER$25,360
Chinese American Coalition for Compassio$20,000
Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation$17,000
HEART OF HOPE ASIAN AMERICAN HOSPICE$1,000
Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Assoc$1,000
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$1,000
American National Red Cross$1,000
Artssv$1,000
Chung Tai International Chan Buddhist As$1,000
Karma Rimay O Sal Ling$1,000
Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders$810
University of California San Francisco F$500
Sjdanceco$300
Baps Endowment Inc$200
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 (FY25–25, $1k) 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%American National Red Cross: $1k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145k · 14 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
15

Total granted

$145k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+14%

Still filing today

64%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHuman 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

  • CA
    CHINESE AMERICAN COALITION FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue +136%
  • A
    ArtsSV
    2× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue ×5,003
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CF
    CHINAWIND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -31%
  • HA
    HARMONY AMITABHA BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +14%
  • HO
    HEART OF HOPE ASIAN AMERICAN HOSPIC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
San Francisco Guzheng Music Society
Arts & Culture
2
Sacramento Dharma Center

To create a sanctuary for meditation and Buddhas teachings, welcoming everyone who seeks to end suffering and live in harmony.

Religion
3
American International Budhist Association

Religous guidance for the asian community

Religion
4
Daoyin Health Society
Health
5
Dharma Drum Retreat Center Inc

The mission of Dharma Drum Retreat Center Inc is to promote the practice of Chinese Chan Buddhism in the western hemisphere. The teaching practiced and taught is based on the Dharma Drum Mountain Lineage developed by the founder Chan…

Religion
6
Dechen Foundation

To advance the teachings of the Sakya and Karma Kagyu schools of Buddhism as embodied by His Holiness Sakya Trichin Ngawang Kunga Thegchin, His Holiness the Karmapa Thaye Dorje and the Fourth Karma Thinley Rinpoche, under the spiritual…

Religion
7
Foundation for Chinese Cultural Heritage
Philanthropy
8
The Zhaoyu Cultural Foundation
Education
9
International Buddhist Education Foundation
Education
10
Cultural Foundations of Zhendai He Usa
Arts & Culture
11
Center for Advanced China Research
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12
Durango Sangha

Rooted in the living transmission of Theravada Buddhism, the purpose of the Durango Dharma Center is personal and collective liberation. We practice together to cultivate awakened minds and compassionate hearts. Building a culture of…

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 The Dharma Sanctuary. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 33 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $51,700 · ReligionBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATIONDechen Rang Dharma Center: $41,780 · ReligionDechen Rang Dharma Center+2 more: $2,300 · ReligionCHINESE AMERICAN COALITION FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE: $32,000 · HealthCHINESE AMERICAN COALIT…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,110 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & R…+2 more: $1,200 · HealthWin Shine Lee Zhi Hao Huang Rehabil: $4,000 · OtherWin Shine L…HEART OF HOPE ASIAN AMERICAN HOSPICE: $2,000 · OtherHEART OF HO…HEART OF HOPE ASIAN AMERICAN HOSPIC: $1,500 · OtherHEART OF HO…Chung Tai International Chan Buddhist As: $1,500 · OtherChung Tai I…Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Assoc: $1,000 · OtherDharma Drum…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY …Individual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual …DHARMA REALM BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · OtherDHARMA REAL…KARMA RIMAY O SAL LING: $1,000 · OtherKARMA RIMAY…+10 more: $3,345 · Other+10 moreCHINAWIND FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSJDANCECO: $550 · Arts & CultureArtsSV: $4,500 · EducationNEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $1,500 · Food & NutritionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human Services
Religion$95,780Health$35,310Other$17,345Arts & Culture$10,550Education$5,500Food & Nutrition$1,500Human Services$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: $51,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN COALITION FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE: $32,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCHINAWIND FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,110 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONY AMITABHA BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTAKING CONTROL OF YOUR DIABETES DBA TCOYD: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSJDANCECO: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe diaTribe Foundation: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DHARMA SANCTUARY: $300 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

  • Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Dechen Rang Dharma Center ↗
  • Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN COALITION FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE ↗
  • Who funds CHINAWIND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ArtsSV ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY AMITABHA BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR DIABETES DBA TCOYD ↗
  • Who funds SJDANCECO ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds The diaTribe Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE DHARMA SANCTUARY ↗

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.

Chinawind FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chinawind Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 K & W Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from K & W Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    2report 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 33 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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