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Li-Qiu Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$462k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$141k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$790kHealth$467kHousing & Shelter$141kPhilanthropy$100kScience & Tech$39kCommunity Improvement$14kPublic Benefit$7k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $396k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALASKA STROKE COALITION$140,960
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$100,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$55,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$50,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON$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
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BETHANY COMMUNITY SEVICES: $11k → 10%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $100k → 16%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $50k → 7%ROBOTICS FOR ALL: $10k → 8%CULTURE LAB LIC INC: $15k → 13%ALASKA STROKE COALITION: $185k → 10%BETHANY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 10%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $100k → 16%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $50k → 7%ALASKA STROKE COALITION: $141k → 10%BETHANY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 10%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $75k → 16%ALASKA STROKE COALITION: $141k → 10%BETHANY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 10%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50k → 16%LAWRENCE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PARTNERSHIP: $1k → 10%COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON: $50k → 16%LAWRENCE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PARTNERSHIP: $1k → 10%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25k → 16%LAWRENCE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PARTNERSHIP: $1k → 10%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $20k → 16%TEAM HAVERHILL: $7k → 10%BOSTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $55k → 16%LAWRENCE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PARTNERSHIP: $1k → 10%BOSTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $45k → 16%BEYOND WALLS INC: $10k → 10%BOSTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $23k → 16%BOSTON COMIC ARTS FOUNDATION LIMITED: $40k → 10%SPOKE ART INC: $50k → 16%BOSTON COMIC ARTS FOUNDATION LIMITED: $32k → 10%CITIZENS INN: $60k → 10%BOSTON COMIC ARTS FOUNDATION LIMITED: $20k → 10%CITIZENS INN: $40k → 10%BOSTON COMIC ARTS FOUNDATION LIMITED: $10k → 10%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Li-Qiu Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Li-Qiu Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 8 repeat orgs$252k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +133% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+133%
0%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $350k · revenue +1%
  • TC
    THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM
    3× · 2023–2025 · $123k · revenue +133%
  • BC
    Boston Comic Arts Foundation LTD
    4× · 2022–2025 · $102k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • CREATIVE HAVERHILL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +90% · 25% of their budget
  • SA
    SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC)
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +19%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -22%
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.

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Guild of Boston Artists Inc
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Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
3
Company One Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Art Explorium
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7
Boston Portuguese Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Fort Point Arts Community Inc

The fort points art community builds cultural vibrancy in boston by cultivating an empowered community of artists, organizations and supporters.

Arts & Culture
9
Artsboston Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Historic Boston Incorporated
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11
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum; 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.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $122,596 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUMBoston Comic Arts Foundation LTD: $102,000 · Arts & CultureBoston Comic Arts Foundation LTDSPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC): $50,000 · Arts & CultureSPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC)COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC+2 more: $35,000 · Arts & CultureAlaska Stroke Coalition: $466,902 · HealthAlaska Stroke CoalitionCITIZENS INN INC: $99,700 · Housing & ShelterCITIZENS I…BETHANY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $41,000 · Housing & ShelterBETHANY CO…CREATIVE HAVERHILL INC: $100,000 · OtherROBOTICS FOR ALL: $19,300 · Other+1 more: $4,000 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBEYOND WALLS INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTEAM HAVERHILL INC: $7,232 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$709,596Health$466,902Housing & Shelter$140,700Other$123,300Philanthropy$100,000Community Improvement$17,232

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlaska Stroke Coalition: $466,902 over 3y, 100% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $350,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $122,596 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Comic Arts Foundation LTD: $102,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE HAVERHILL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCITIZENS INN INC: $99,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC): $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBETHANY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $41,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND WALLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTEAM HAVERHILL INC: $7,232 over 1y, 19% 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncBarr FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Li-Qiu Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Li-Qiu Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Li-Qiu Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Li-Qiu 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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