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Lam Yau Jong Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k12 grants · $192k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOUR MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR MARKETPLACE MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| AGAPE EVANGELICAL CHURCH | $50,000 |
| NTSENTH LOTHA INTERNATIONAL MINISTR | $30,000 |
| Iglesia Del Pacto Evangelico | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,000 |
| FIRST RESPONDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDAT | $20,000 |
| RIGHTNOW MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| HARRISON CHILHOWEE BAPTIST ACADEMY | $12,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MESSENGERS | $12,000 |
| Operation Mobilization | $12,000 |
| Barnabas International | $10,000 |
| GOLDEN LAMPSTAND ASSOCIATION USA | $10,000 |
| INTERSERVE USA | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 88% of Lam Yau Jong Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 8% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ROROADS OF SUCCESS4× · 2019–2022 · $90k · revenue +102%
- RMRIGHTNOW MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +12%
BARNABAS INTERNATIONAL6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- UNUSC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $30k
- CACHURCH AT ROCKY PEAKone grant, 2018 · $15k
- CHCENTRO HISPANO DE ESTUDIOS TEOLOGICone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Training pastors in third world countries
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Religious
Supporing missionaries worldwide
Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and
Proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ evangelism discipleship and church planting
Childrens Home and Ministry in India
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rightnow Ministries International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Real Options Womens Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTER FOR MARKETPLACE MINISTRIES DBA 3Q LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TRUTH AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds MONARCH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ROADS OF SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds NTSENTH LOTHA INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RIGHTNOW MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN JOY HOME ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN LAMPSTAND ASSOCIATION US INC ↗
- Who funds International Messengers ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds ZOE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Real Options Womens Clinic ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lam Yau Jong Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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