· Private foundation
Lu Wang Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KQED | $7,500 |
| PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LIFEMOVES | $2,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $1,500 |
| SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| CHI AM CIRCLE CLUB | $1,000 |
| THE HARKER SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CHINESE HISTORICAL CULTURAL PROJECT | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO | $300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $300 |
| NATIONAL TRUST HISTORIC PRESERVATIO | $300 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $300 |
| ELKHORN SLOUGH FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY20–21, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SBSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +25%
- KIKQED INC6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +17%
- CAChi Am Circle Club8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISone grant, 2018 · $150k
- AKABERCROMBIE KENT PHILANTHROPYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AALLSFone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 47 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 SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds Chi Am Circle Club ↗
- Who funds THE HARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHINESE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Elkhorn Slough Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY MEDIA ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STANFORD HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Lu Wang Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lu Wang Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
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