· Private foundation
Lin & Susie Chen 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $45,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $40,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM | $40,000 |
| GARDEN OF HOPE | $35,000 |
| CHINESE AMERCAN PLANNING COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSAL HUMAN BODY ENERGY OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| CHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC | $20,000 |
| CHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CARTER BURDEN NETWORK | $2,500 |
| GUANDONG ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +70%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +67%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- QFQCC FUND PORT OF ENTRYone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- GAGUNANDONG ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
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.
The Chinese American Medical Society (the Society) was created in the State of NY in 1964. Its mission is to improve the health status of Chinese Americans and to promote excellence in health care for all through the mobilization of health…
To broaden health care access, provide educational opportunities and services with a professional health team in a culturally sensitive fashion to the chinese population in the community. its objective is to meet the unmet healthcare needs…
Chinatown health clinic foundation, inc.'s purpose is to improve the health conditions of the asian american community in the greater ny metropolitan area manner that is culturally relevant and respectful of the individual's dignity, and…
It is dedicated to deepening the understanding and appreciation of chinese culture in the global and local communities. it fulfills its mission by offering professional classes, workshops, and performances while nurturing creative new…
NYC Mission Society improves the lives of children, youth and families in the City's most underserved communities. Through programs and services that respond to community needs, we create cycles of success for generations to come.
At apicha community health center, our mission is to provide high quality, equitable, whole person, and culturally responsive care delivered in an inclusive and welcoming manner.
Welcome to Chinatown strengthens Chinatowns small business ecosystem through coaching, capital matchmaking, cultural integration, and thought leadership. We provide entrepreneurs with the tools, data, and community infrastructure needed to…
CAAAV was founded in 1986 as one of the first groups in the United States to respond to racially motivated violence against Asians. Since then, CAAAV has broaden its focus to address a wide array of needs and challenges facing the Asian…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
Provide humanitarian support in China. Help to develop a civil society in China. Promote rule-of-law,human rights, and freedom of expressions.Focus on grass-root and people who are neglected by the outside world
Chn provides a broad range of health services including but not limited to primary and preventative care, and mental health services to a largely medically underserved population.
Lenox hill hospital medical, pc is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHINESE FREE MASON ATHLETIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOCHI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COOL CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS FOR UNITY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lin & Susie Chen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lin & Susie Chen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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