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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
24
Organizations funded FY2022
42%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,010
Largest grant, FY2022
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 24
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
12
Total assets, FY2022
$10k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 42% of the organizations Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
InternationalHealthOther
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
FY202224$34k42%
FY202119$20k47%
FY202016$12kn/a
100% classified

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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 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

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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 20.

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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.

About Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation

How much does Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation give?
Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $36,510 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are International (52%), Health (15%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Americares Foundation Inc ($10k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($7k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($6k).
Does Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kallen and Helen Chan Family 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.
Where is Kallen and Helen Chan Family Foundation based?
Kallen and Helen Chan Family 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 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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