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Li & Liu Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$96k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$371kPhilanthropy$114kHealth$8kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$8,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pinewood School$85,000
Fidelity Charitable$8,500
Faith in Grace Bible Church$2,000
paypal$828
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%American Online Giving Foundation: $500 → 10%paypal: $828 → 7%Signal: $5 → 8%Wikimedia Foundation Inc: $26 → 10%Fudan University Education Development Foundation: $63k → 11%BUPT Alumni Association of America: $100 → 12%UCDavis: $700 → 16%UIUC: $2k → 19%FIDELITY BETTER EDUCATION CHARITABL: $65k → 11%Pinewood School: $85k → 8%Fudan University Education Development Foundation: $1k → 11%UIUC: $1k → 19%FIDELITY BETTER EDUCATION CHARITABL: $38k → 11%PINEWOOD SCHOOL: $70k → 8%FIDELITY BETTER EDUCATION CHARITABL: $10k → 11%PINEWOOD SCHOOL: $13k → 8%PINEWOOD SCHOOL: $10k → 8%LOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%PINEWOOD SCHOOL: $100 → 8%COMPASS POINT: $8k → 8%Faith in Grace Bible Church: $2k → 8%Pinewood School: $10k → 8%ALMOND SCHOOL: $153 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$367k · 4 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +143% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$367k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+143%
-17%

Still filing today

25%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • PS
    Pinewood School
    6× · 2018–2024 · $188k
  • FB
    FIDELITY BETTER EDUCATION CHARITABL
    2× · 2019–2021 · $113k
  • FU
    FUDAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $64k · revenue +143%

Funded once

  • CP
    COMPASS POINT
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • LA
    LOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -17%
  • U
    UCDavis
    one grant, 2023 · $700

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
3
Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundationinc

Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation, Inc. ("FFOF") was established by five alumni from Fudan Fuzhong, the high school affiliated with Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Fudan University is one of the leading institutes of higher education…

Education
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…

Philanthropy
6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
7
Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…

Education
8
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
University of California Berkeley Foundation

The university of california berkeley foundation's mission is to advance the interest and promote the welfare of the university of california, berkeley (the "university"), to develop and increase the facilities of the university and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Online Giving Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bupt Alumni Association of America. 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

6 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Pinewood School — $187,600 · OtherPinewood SchoolFIDELITY BETTER EDUCATION CHARITABL — $113,343 · OtherFIDELITY BETTER EDUCATION CHARITABL+7 more — $13,803 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $113,500 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHAR…FUDAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $63,700 · EducationFUDAN UNIVERSI…+2 more — $126 · EducationLOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$314,746Community Improvement$113,500Education$63,826Philanthropy$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $113,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFUDAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $63,700 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetLOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUPT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $26 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
  • Who funds FUDAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BUPT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Li & Liu Family 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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