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Lijiang Foundation at a glance

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Lijiang 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.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$347kEducation$135kReligion$14kPhilanthropy$7kCommunity Improvement$5kYouth Development$2kFood & Nutrition$2kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHINSHIN$13,200
MIT$10,000
WIZCHINESE$2,000
EMPOWER IN NEED$2,000
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION DAF$800
CUPERTINO ROTARY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATI$600
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIT: $25k → 8%SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $42k → 8%TOISHAN BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC: $100 → 10%CALTECH NON CASH: $336k → 14%GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 14%ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $600 → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF INTERNATIONAL C: $100 → 16%MIT: $19k → 8%SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30k → 8%FRIENDS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NE: $500 → 10%CALTECH: $70k → 14%ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $500 → 9%MIT: $10k → 8%SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $16k → 8%CALTECH: $60k → 14%MIT: $10k → 8%SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%CALTECH: $40k → 14%MIT: $10k → 8%SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%CALTECH: $35k → 14%MIT: $10k → 8%WIZCHINESE: $2k → 8%CALTECH: $25k → 14%MIT: $10k → 8%WIZCHINESE: $2k → 8%CALTECH: $23k → 14%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION DAF: $800 → 8%WIZCHINESE: $2k → 8%ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA INC: $500 → 14%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION DAF: $800 → 8%WIZCHINESE: $200 → 8%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION DAF: $100 → 8%PALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $6k → 8%PALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $5k → 8%PALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $3k → 8%EMPOWER IN NEED: $2k → 8%YOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $1k → 8%YOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $1k → 8%GUNN HIGH SCHOOL PTSA: $620 → 8%GUNN HIGH SCHOOL PTSA: $320 → 8%GUNN HIGH SCHOOL PTSA: $300 → 8%GUNN HIGH SCHOOL PTSA: $250 → 8%CONGREGATION BETH AM: $308 → 8%SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $500 → 8%PALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUM: $1k → 8%ROTARY DISTRICT 5170 FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%ROTARY DISTRICT 5170 FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$491k · 10 repeat orgs$415k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$491k
$400k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $253k · revenue +14%
  • SS
    SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $113k · revenue +19%
  • CR
    Cupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation
    5× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $336k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $60k
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -40%
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
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
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2
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
3
Save Cantonese

Save Cantonese is an international movement that sustains and celebrates Cantonese language and culture. We have three Strategic Aims: a) protect and strengthen educational and research infrastructure for the Cantonese language, b) affirm…

Arts & Culture
4
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
5
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
6
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
7
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
8
Fudan University Education Development Foundation

1) Support academic research and talents cultivation in Fudan University. 2) Promote higher education in Fudan University and other educational organizations in China. 3) Strengthen global cooperations of education and research. 4) Enhance…

Education
9
Peninsula Food Runners Inc

Peninsula Food Runners' mission is to alleviate hunger and minimize food waste in the San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Every day, our volunteers pick up and deliver a wide variety of wonderfully prepared and non-prepared surplus food to…

Food & Nutrition
10
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
11
Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation

The Foundation was established to raise funds for the purpose of contributing to charitable and educational organizations in the local, national, and international community.

Community Improvement
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment California Inc; the most unlike its peers is Toishan Benevolent Association. 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $335,560 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMIT: $94,000 · OtherMITIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+11 more: $27,798 · Other+11 moreCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $253,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOG…PALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $14,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationSHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $113,300 · InternationalSHIN SHIN EDUC…+1 more: $1,100 · InternationalRotary District 5170 Foundation: $4,800 · Community ImprovementCupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation: $3,710 · PhilanthropyYOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,100 · Youth DevelopmentPALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$517,358Education$267,100International$114,400Community Improvement$4,800Philanthropy$3,710Youth Development$2,100Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $253,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $113,300 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetPALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRotary District 5170 Foundation: $4,800 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation: $3,710 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Children with Special Needs: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOISHAN BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Rotary District 5170 Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Cupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Children with Special Needs ↗
  • Who funds TOISHAN BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA16.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Lijiang Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lijiang Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 23 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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