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Mai Tian Family Foundation at a glance

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Mai Tian Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$17kArts & Culture$11kScience & Tech$7kRecreation & Sports$2kYouth Development$699Animals$100Public Safety & Disaster$100Community Improvement$50
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$100
Median grant
2
States reached
$265k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mayborn Museum$10,520
Cedar Park Public Library Foundation$10,500
Fudan University Education Development Foundation$6,000
Joy Park for All Children$1,500
Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots$599
Individual grant recipient$300
Individual grant recipient$200
UT Austin$200
U Houston$150
Individual grant recipient$150
University of Dallas$150
Dallas Zoo$100
Temple College$100
Travis Audubon$100
Travis County Parks Foundation$100
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Fudan University Education Development Foundation: $6k → 11%Cedar Park Public Library Foundation: $11k → 6%Play for All Foundation: $100 → 10%Travis County Parks Foundation: $100 → 10%Texas AM University at Galveston: $500 → 14%Dallas Zoo: $100 → 14%Temple College: $100 → 14%The DoSeum: $50 → 16%Mayborn Museum: $11k → 16%U Houston: $150 → 16%Falls on the Colorado Museum: $20 → 17%Texas AM University: $100 → 22%Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots: $599 → 6%Texas State University: $50 → 10%University of Texas at Austin: $5k → 10%University of Dallas: $150 → 14%Central Texas College Foundation: $100 → 14%University of Texas at San Antonio: $300 → 16%Baylor University: $100 → 16%Houston Museum of Natural Science: $300 → 16%Texas A&M University: $100 → 22%Joy Park for All Children: $2k → 6%UT Austin: $200 → 10%UT Dallas: $150 → 14%Friends of the Round Rock Public Library: $50 → 6%Travis Audubon: $100 → 10%University of Texas at Dallas: $100 → 14%Bee Cave Arts Foundation: $50 → 10%UNT Dallas: $300 → 14%Texas Police Association: $100 → 10%Frontiers of Flight Museum: $50 → 14%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 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
Texas Flying Legends Museum
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2
The Museum of North Texas History

To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.

Arts & Culture
3
Texas Association of Museums

The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
4
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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5
Lone Star Flight Museum

Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.

Arts & Culture
6
Texas Prairieland Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Texas Forestry Museum

To educate the public about forestry and preserve the history of the forestry industry.

Arts & Culture
9
Texas Museum of Science & Technology

Our mission is to engage the scientist in all of us by igniting a spirit of inquiry. We strive to

Arts & Culture
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
Museum of Texas Tech University Association

The association promotes and supports the museum of texas tech university and assists in securing monies, members, collections, and general goodwill or the educational and building programs of the museum.

Arts & Culture
12
Houston Geological Society Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Dallas; the most unlike its peers is Cedar Park Public Library Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
3/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mayborn Museum: $10,520 · OtherMayborn MuseumUniversity of Texas at Austin: $5,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas at AustinJOY PARK FOR ALL CHILDREN: $1,500 · OtherJOY PARK FOR ALL CHILDREN+18 more: $3,249 · Other+18 moreCEDAR PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,500 · EducationCEDAR PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONFUDAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationFUDAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION+3 more: $350 · EducationHouston Museum of Natural Science: $300 · Arts & CultureBEE CAVE ARTS FOUNDATION: $50 · Arts & CultureFRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM INC: $50 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $50 · Arts & CultureThe Falls on the Colorado Museum: $20 · Arts & CultureTravis Audubon Society Inc: $100 · EnvironmentTravis County Parks Foundation: $100 · Public Benefit
Other$20,269Education$16,850Arts & Culture$470Environment$100Public Benefit$100

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 budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dallas: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Audubon Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTravis County Parks Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS POLICE ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEE CAVE ARTS FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $50 over 1y, 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.

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.

American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · 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
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 Mai Tian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mai Tian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%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 · 0–25%
    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 33 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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