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Li-Qiu 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $396k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALASKA STROKE COALITION | $140,960 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $100,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $55,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $50,000 |
| BOSTON COMIC ARTS FOUNDATION LIMITED | $40,000 |
| CULTURE LAB LIC INC | $15,000 |
| BETHANY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| LAWRENCE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PARTNERSHIP | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 7% of Li-Qiu Family 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +133% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $350k · revenue +1%
- TCTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM3× · 2023–2025 · $123k · revenue +133%
- BCBoston Comic Arts Foundation LTD4× · 2022–2025 · $102k · revenue +163%
Funded once
CREATIVE HAVERHILL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +90% · 25% of their budget- SASPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC)one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +19%
- MOMUSEUM OF SCIENCEone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -22%
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.
Company one theatre builds community at the intersection of art and social change. vision: a boston defined by justice, equity, and artistic innovation. manifesto: welcome to our community, where every audience member, artist, student, and…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…
The purpose of the Boston Portuguese Festival is to promote the image of Portugal and the visibility of the Portuguese community and its ancestry in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to promote the education of the community regarding…
The fort points art community builds cultural vibrancy in boston by cultivating an empowered community of artists, organizations and supporters.
Artsboston connects people to and through the arts. we activate audience building and engagement tools, professional development networks and resources, and arts research to foster the growth of an equitable and inclusive arts community in…
Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum and the most unlike its peers is Alaska Stroke Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 Alaska Stroke Coalition ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Boston Comic Arts Foundation LTD ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE HAVERHILL INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS INN INC ↗
- Who funds SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC) ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds CULTURE LAB LIC INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND WALLS INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM HAVERHILL 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Li-Qiu 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Spoke Art Inc (Fka Medicine Wheel Productions Inc) — 22% of income from government
- Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
- Creative Haverhill Inc — 13% of income from government
- Beyond Walls Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Bethany Community Services Inc — 0% of income from government
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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