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Liaou Foundation Aka Sunny Hills Foundation at a glance

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Liaou Foundation Aka Sunny Hills Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$100kEducation$53kArts & Culture$14kFood & Nutrition$7kYouth Development$5kPublic Benefit$5kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$533
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SINO AMERICAN BUDDHIST CULTURAL CENTER$3,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASSISSTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN BERNARDINO: $1k → 14%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93k · 4 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$93k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+82%

Still filing today

75%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • SA
    SINO AMERICAN BUDDHIST CULTURAL CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue -13%
  • BT
    BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $21k
  • TC
    TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • CP
    CAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +199%
  • CP
    CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue +82%
  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOC
    one grant, 2024 · $26k
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.

1
Pho Da Son Quan Am Bo Tat Tu Inc

A buddhist temple provides religious services on various occasions, conventions and publications.to enrich members' spriitual life.

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2
Taiwanese-American Foundation of San Diego

To engage in chratable educational and community activities that promote culture and tradition in the community, and promote the health and social well-being of the communities.

Arts & Culture
3
Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation

To provide patient-centered medical care with compassion to underpriviledged individuals regardless of religion, age, gender, ethnicity or ability to pay.

International
4
Los Angeles Chong De Culture and Education Foundation

To promote spirituality cultural awareness and education, to provide guidance to people for the restoration of the true nature, to advocate morality, benevolence and righteousness.

Religion
5
Tu Lam Buddhist Temple

The organization provides a worshipping place for the buddhists. The public can come to attend masses, meditations and worship Buddha.

Religion
6
Thanh Tu Meditation Center

Buddhism encourages its people to avoid self-indulgence but also self-denial.

Religion
7
U Channel Foundation

Serve the Chinese community in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond through providing TV and online programs that promote positive cultural and spiritual influences.

Arts & Culture
8
Ching Chung Taoist Association of America

To promote the religious and doctrine of taoism in the san francisco bay area.to serve the chinese community by providing taoist master for taoist rituals and ceremony when their family members pass away.to hold meetings for the teachings…

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9
Pana Holding Corporation

The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organizedunder the General Corporation Law of California other than the banking business, the trust company business orthe practice of…

Human Services
10
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
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11
Kong Chow Benevolent Association

Kong Chow Benevolent Association is a mutual benefit organization established to serve both the physical and spiritual needs of the Chinese community in the Bay Area through the operation of the Kong Chow Temple, the Kong Chow cemetery and…

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12
San Fernando Valley Chinese Cultural Association

The san fernando valley chinese cultural association (sfvcca) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the preservation and celebration of the splendors of chinese civilization. sfvcca is deeply committed to promoting nutual…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Tccna. 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

13 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. 13 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SINO AMERICAN BUDDHIST CULTURAL CENTER INC: $54,850 · OtherSINO AMERICAN BUDDHIST CULTURAL CENTER INCINTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOC: $25,603 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCHELPING HANDS PANTRY: $4,500 · Other+7 more: $10,000 · Other+7 moreCAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $26,250 · PhilanthropyCAL POLY POMONA…CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC: $26,250 · EducationCAL POLY POMONA…BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $21,000 · ReligionBUDDHIST TZU …DDMBA LA Foundation: $2,500 · ReligionDDMBA LA Foun…TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $13,000 · Arts & CultureTCCNA: $5,000 · Public BenefitFormosan Association for Public Affairs: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentAssistance League of San Bernardino: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$94,953Philanthropy$26,250Education$26,250Religion$23,500Arts & Culture$13,000Public Benefit$5,000Youth Development$2,000Human Services$1,000

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 budgetSINO AMERICAN BUDDHIST CULTURAL CENTER INC: $54,850 over 4y, 11% of budgetCAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $26,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC: $26,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $13,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTCCNA: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetDDMBA LA Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPTION HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssistance League of San Bernardino: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSINFONIA MEXICANA: $1,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Liaou Foundation Aka Sunny Hills Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Liaou Foundation Aka Sunny Hills Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

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    How do I get to Liaou Foundation Aka Sunny Hills Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Liaou Foundation Aka Sunny Hills 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 18 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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