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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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| UNIVERSAL HUMAN BODY ENERGY OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| CHINESE AMERCAN PLANNING COUNCIL | $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 |
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.
Your 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 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.
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.
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
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
- 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
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chinese-American Planning Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 37 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 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 ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Lin & Susie Chen 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% 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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