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Lui and Wan Foundation at a glance

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Lui and Wan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$595k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.5MEducation$3.0MArts & Culture$503kInternational$100kCommunity Improvement$41k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$500,000
ALLIANCE DEVELOPMENT OF THEATRE ART$35,000
SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL$35,000
CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUCIL$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 11%SAVING MOTHER: $100k → 17%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUCIL: $25k → 17%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUCIL: $10k → 17%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $6k → 17%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 8 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$5.9M
$980k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+76%

Still filing today

63%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $330k · revenue +52%
  • BH
    BASIC HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue +8%
  • CH
    CHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $201k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $350k · revenue +19%
  • KM
    KINHAVEN MUSIC SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +76%
  • FF
    FCMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

—
6
Barnard College

Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…

Education
7
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
9
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—
10
New York University

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.

Education
11
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
12
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chinese-American Planning Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Education and Science Society Inc. 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 16 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
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

NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $3,022,500 · OtherNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTERNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1,800,000 · OtherNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINEVASSAR COLLEGE: $350,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEFCMS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Other+2 more: $223,200 · OtherSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $330,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $105,000 · EducationTHE SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL: $35,000 · EducationKINHAVEN MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureFUTURE ROOTS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBASIC HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $250,000 · HealthCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $200,875 · PhilanthropySAVING MOTHERS: $100,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $41,000 · Human ServicesBROWN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · Community Improvement
Other$5,645,700Education$470,000Arts & Culture$280,000Health$250,000Philanthropy$200,875Human Services$141,000Community Improvement$100,000

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 budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $330,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKINHAVEN MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $250,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBASIC HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $250,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $200,875 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $105,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING MOTHERS: $100,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetEducation and Science Society Inc: $52,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURE ROOTS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Lui and Wan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lui and Wan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Kinhaven Music School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lui and Wan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lui and Wan Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 16 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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