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Li and Xu 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.

$2k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
2
Organizations funded FY2020
50%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$1,885
Largest grant, FY2020
$1,885
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$693k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 50% of the organizations Li and Xu Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Community 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20202$2k50%
FY20192$1k50%
FY20182$4k50%
FY20178$17kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Science & Tech$11kEducation$7kHealth$6kEmployment$1kCommunity Improvement$1kArts & Culture$799Food & Nutrition$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

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How do I get to Li and Xu Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Li and Xu 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 Li and Xu Foundation

How much does Li and Xu Foundation give?
Li and Xu Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $1,985 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Li and Xu Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Science & Tech (39%), Education (28%), Health (21%).
Who are Li and Xu Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Be the Change Foundation Inc ($6k), Mandarin Business Association ($1k), Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums ($299).
Does Li and Xu Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Li and Xu 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 Li and Xu Foundation based?
Li and Xu 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 12 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 2020, released 2020. 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 FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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