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Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation at a glance

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Kallen and Helen Chan 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.

$37k
Granted FY2022
25
Grants FY2022
12
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

International$36kHealth$10kFood & Nutrition$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kEducation$6kHuman Services$4kCivil Rights$500Community Improvement$105
02FY2022 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,010
Median grant
12
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Americares$4,000
Doctors without Borders$4,000
USA for UNHCR$3,000
Stanford University$2,500
Global Giving$2,000
RAZOM$2,000
World Central Kitchen$2,000
UNICEF$2,000
Feeding America$2,000
St Jude Children Hospital$1,500
Mayo Clinic$1,500
OXFAM AMERICA$1,500
Santa Clara University$1,010
Partners In Health$1,000
CARE$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mayo Clinic: $2k → 11%Partners In Health: $1k → 16%Stanford Medicine: $2k → 7%Santa Clara University: $1k → 8%America Cancer: $680 → 10%UNICEF: $2k → 17%Bread for the World: $50 → 14%Mercy Corps: $500 → 12%Americares: $4k → 9%St Jude Children Hospital: $2k → 17%MAP International: $250 → 14%Feeding America: $2k → 14%Macular Degeneration Research: $500 → 8%OXFAM AMERICA: $2k → 16%Second Harvest of Silicon Valley: $500 → 7%Santa Clara University: $1k → 8%Crab Boat Owners Association: $105 → 10%UNICEF: $400 → 17%USA for UNHCR: $3k → 14%Mercy Corps: $250 → 12%Americares: $4k → 9%St Jude Children's Research Hospita: $500 → 17%MAP International: $250 → 14%Project Hope: $1k → 8%OXFAM: $200 → 16%Santa Clara University: $1k → 8%UNICEF: $300 → 17%Global Giving: $2k → 14%Americares: $2k → 9%St Jude Children's Research Hospita: $500 → 17%Project Hope: $300 → 8%Oxfam America: $200 → 16%Second Harvest of Silicon Valley: $500 → 8%National Glaucoma Research: $250 → 17%FINCA: $500 → 14%Doctors without Borders: $4k → 17%FINCA: $500 → 14%Doctors without Borders: $3k → 17%USA for UNHCR: $200 → 14%Doctos without Borders: $1k → 17%World Central Kitchen: $2k → 14%RAZOM: $2k → 17%USA for UNHUR: $200 → 14%Amnesty International: $500 → 17%World Central Kitchen: $2k → 14%Amnesty International: $500 → 17%World Central Kitchen: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 26% of Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 35% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 16 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$49k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-5%

Still filing today

81%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
InternationalFood & NutritionHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +20%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SU
    Stanford Univ Cancer Discovery fund
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • AC
    America Cancer Society
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
4
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
5
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
6
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
7
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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8
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
9
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
10
International Rescue Committee Inc

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

International
11
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
12
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Crab Boat Owners Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 36 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCUnited States Association for UNHCR: $3,200 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCRUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,700 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFRAZOM INC: $2,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $1,700 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,500 · International+5 more: $3,750 · International+5 moreTHE SALVATION ARMY: $1,600 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYPROJECT H O P E INC: $1,600 · OtherPROJECT H O P E INCStanford Univ Cancer Discovery fund: $1,500 · OtherStanford Univ Cancer…Mayo Clinic: $1,500 · OtherMayo ClinicAmerican Cancer Society: $1,000 · OtherAmerican Cancer Soci…America Cancer Society: $1,000 · OtherAmerica Cancer Socie…Individual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…USO: $750 · OtherUSOIndividual grant recipient: $680 · OtherIndividual grant rec…Amnesty International: $500 · OtherMacular Degeneration Research: $500 · Other+4 more: $700 · Other+4 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationTHE BOARD O…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $3,020 · EducationPRESIDENT-B…Feeding America: $6,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Ame…SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $1,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARV…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 · HealthCRAB BOAT OWNERS ASSOCIATION: $105 · Community Improvement
International$39,350Other$12,330Education$7,020Food & Nutrition$7,000Health$3,500Community Improvement$105

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 budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $3,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $3,020 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBread For The World Inc: $50 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Kallen and Helen Chan Family 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.

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 36 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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