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Linlee Family Foundation at a glance

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Linlee 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.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$124kInternational$87kHuman Services$53kHealth$32kPublic Benefit$26kReligion$13kCommunity Improvement$11kRecreation & Sports$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$699k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TCCNA$11,000
ASIAN AMERICAN FOR BETTER COMMUNITY$5,000
The Alliance Cultural Foundation Interna$5,000
LPCH$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
TCAAT$2,500
Sino American Heritage Foundation$1,600
Cultural and Arts Association$1,000
Chinese Seniors United Association$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 (FY17–22, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WISDOM CULTURE EDUCATION ORGANIZATI: $4k → 10%TACCNC: $4k → 8%TACCNC: $3k → 8%TACCNC: $3k → 8%TACCNC: $3k → 8%TACCNC: $3k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$363k · 24 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
14

Total granted

$363k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

38%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitReligionCivil RightsOther
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

  • T
    TCCNA
    3× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +104%
  • FO
    Friends of Children with Special Needs
    5× · 2017–2022 · $16k · revenue +112%
  • SJ
    SAN JOSE AUXILIARY FOR CHILDREN dba THRIFT BOX
    2× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • IL
    INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • TA
    THE ACE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • UC
    U Channel Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -2%
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
The Asian-American Senior Citizen Association
Human Services
2
Taiwanese-American Foundation
—
3
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
—
4
Monterey Bay Chinese Association

Provide Chinese Culture and Help to Advance social, economic well-being of Chinese American at Monterey Bay, California.

Arts & Culture
5
Chinese American Womens Benevolent Association
Philanthropy
6
San Francisco Taipei Sister City Committee

City to City Local Governments, Businesses, Cultural Activities and Economic Developments

Human Services
7
Scarsdale Chinese Association Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Silicon Valley Taiwanese Association

Donation for Culture Festival

International
9
San Francisco Guzheng Music Society
Arts & Culture
10
House of Taiwan
Arts & Culture
11
The Association for Us-China Exchange

To provide a forum for education and training for students and professionals between universities of US and China. To enhance the living qualities of the people between the two countries.

International
12
The Austin Chen Tsai Foundation
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian American for Better Community; the most unlike its peers is Double Ten Celebration Committee S F Bay Area. 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

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 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STUF: $124,340 · OtherSTUFTCAAT: $15,500 · OtherTCAATASSOCIATION OF TAO DEVELOPMENT: $11,000 · Other+30 more: $62,305 · Other+30 moreCALIFORNIA LINE DANCE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $104,500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA LINE DANCE ASSOCIAT…U Channel Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,300 · Arts & CultureTCCNA: $16,000 · Public BenefitINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public BenefitTACCNC: $15,450 · Human ServicesWisdom Culture & Education Organization: $4,000 · Human ServicesFriends of Children with Special Needs: $15,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 · HealthASIAN AMERICAN FOR BETTER COMMUNITY: $13,000 · Civil RightsAGAPE ASIAN MISSION: $10,200 · Religion
Other$213,145Arts & Culture$110,800Public Benefit$26,000Human Services$19,450Health$17,500Civil Rights$13,000Religion$10,200

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 budgetCALIFORNIA LINE DANCE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $104,500 over 4y, 38% of budgetTCCNA: $16,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFriends of Children with Special Needs: $15,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTACCNC: $15,450 over 5y, 18% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FOR BETTER COMMUNITY: $13,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetAGAPE ASIAN MISSION: $10,200 over 3y, 12% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAN JOSE AUXILIARY FOR CHILDREN dba THRIFT BOX: $5,050 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetU Channel Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWisdom Culture & Education Organization: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY BRIDGES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 LINE DANCE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds TCCNA ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Children with Special Needs ↗
  • Who funds TACCNC ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN FOR BETTER COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds AGAPE ASIAN MISSION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN JOSE AUXILIARY FOR CHILDREN dba THRIFT BOX ↗
  • Who funds THE ACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds U Channel Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Wisdom Culture & Education Organization ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY BRIDGES INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DOUBLE TEN CELEBRATION COMMITTEE S F BAY AREA ↗

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.

Drs Wu & Lan Family F…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Drs Wu & Lan Family FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Drs Wu & Lan Family Foundation · 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 Linlee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linlee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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 44 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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