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Ko Yen Lin Family Foundation at a glance

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Ko Yen Lin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$35
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$15kReligion$14kEmployment$12kInternational$7kEducation$5kHealth$535Youth Development$350Public Safety & Disaster$200Other$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$35
Median grant
2
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Police Support Fund$35
CA State Sheriff's Association Foun$35
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 (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CA State Sheriff's Association Foun: $35 → 12%Los Angeles Mission: $36 → 14%STUF United Fund: $3k → 13%American Institute for Cancer Resea: $35 → 7%Los Angeles Mission: $35 → 14%STUF United Fund: $2k → 13%San Marino Schools Foundation: $3k → 14%STUF United Fund: $1k → 13%Tyzen Hsiao FOundation: $2k → 14%San Marino Public Library Foundatio: $1k → 14%San Marino Schools Foundation: $500 → 14%Children's Hospital LA: $200 → 14%Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater: $7k → 14%Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater: $6k → 14%BOCA Dharma Seal Temple: $1k → 14%BOCA Dharma Seal Temple: $630 → 14%BOCA Dharma Seal Temple: $390 → 14%Tzu Chi Foundation: $1k → 14%City of Hope: $200 → 14%City of Hope: $100 → 14%Girl Scouts: $200 → 14%Girl Scouts: $150 → 14%Career Taiwan USA Association: $6k → 14%Buddhist Fa Kwang Temple: $8k → 14%Career Taiwan USA Association: $5k → 14%Buddhist Fa Kwang Temple: $2k → 14%Career Taiwan USA Association: $1k → 14%Buddhist Fa Kwang Temple: $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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 10 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$49k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+17%

Still filing today

50%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
PhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • TC
    TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
    2× · 2018–2019 · $13k · revenue +255%
  • CT
    CAREER TAIWAN USA ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $12k
  • BF
    Buddhist Fa Kwang Temple
    3× · 2018–2020 · $12k

Funded once

  • TH
    Tyzen Hsiao FOundation
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • BT
    BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • SM
    San Marino Public Library Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +38%
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
Sutter Valley Medical Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: Caring for our patients first and our people always. VISION: To be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Santa Monica Education Foundation

The Santa Monica Education Foundation (SMEF) raises funds to enhance and supplement the curriculum of every public school in the city of Santa Monica.

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4
Taiwanese United Fund
Arts & Culture
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
6
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
7
Union for International Cancer Control

The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) unites and supports the cancer community to reduce the global cancer burden, to promote greater equity, and to ensure that cancer control continues to be a priority in the world health and…

Health
8
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
10
Sutter Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
11
The Silent Film Festival

SFSFF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the presentation and preservation of silent cinema, and the education of the public about silent film as an art form and as a culturally valuable historical record.

Philanthropy
12
San Bruno Mountain Watch

The mission of San Bruno Mountain Watch is to care for San Bruno Mountain through conservation, ecological restoration, education,and advocacy in partnership with local communities.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is American Institute for Cancer Research. 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

9 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. 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAREER TAIWAN USA ASSOCIATION: $12,000 · OtherCAREER TAIWAN USA ASSOCIATIONBuddhist Fa Kwang Temple: $11,500 · OtherBuddhist Fa Kwang TempleBOCA Dharma Seal Temple: $2,140 · OtherBOCA Dharma Seal TempleTyzen Hsiao FOundation: $2,000 · OtherTyzen Hsiao FOundation+3 more: $535 · OtherTAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $13,400 · Arts & CultureTAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF …STUF UNITED FUND INC: $5,500 · PhilanthropySTUF UNITED F…San Marino Public Library Foundation: $1,000 · PhilanthropySan Marino Pu…San Marino Schools Foundation: $3,500 · EducationBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $1,000 · ReligionGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $350 · Youth DevelopmentChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $200 · HealthAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $35 · HealthLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $71 · Housing & Shelter
Other$28,175Arts & Culture$13,400Philanthropy$6,500Education$3,500Religion$1,000Youth Development$350Health$235Housing & Shelter$71

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $13,400 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSTUF UNITED FUND INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSan Marino Schools Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Marino Public Library Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $71 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $35 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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation 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 Ko Yen Lin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ko Yen Lin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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.
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    How do I get to Ko Yen Lin Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ko Yen Lin 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 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) 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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