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May Liang and James Lintott 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.

$425k
Granted FY2017
7
Grants FY2017
7
Organizations funded FY2017
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100% of May Liang and James Lintott Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Sterling Donor Advised Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year May Liang and James Lintott Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $425k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
1
’18
1
’19
0
’20
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2017
$55,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$100,000
States reached, FY2017
4
Total assets, FY2017
$435k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$151kArts & Culture$100kInternational$100kPhilanthropy$100kCommunity Improvement$75kPublic Benefit$30kYouth Development$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sidwell Friends School$100,0001n/a
Best Buddies International Inc$100,00010%
The Chehalis Foundation$75,0002n/a
Chehalis School District$50,0002n/a
Junior State of America$30,0001n/a
Asian American LEAD$15,00011%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.

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.

Youth Initiative FundMD15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Youth Initiative Fund · Millennium Evergreen Charitable Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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Find your warmest path to May Liang and James Lintott 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.

About May Liang and James Lintott Foundation

How much does May Liang and James Lintott Foundation give?
May Liang and James Lintott Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $425,000 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does May Liang and James Lintott Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (26%), Arts & Culture (18%), International (18%).
Who are May Liang and James Lintott Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Sidwell Friends School ($100k), Best Buddies International Inc ($100k), The Chehalis Foundation ($75k).
Does May Liang and James Lintott Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as May Liang and James Lintott Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Youth Initiative Fund, Millennium Evergreen Charitable Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is May Liang and James Lintott Foundation based?
May Liang and James Lintott Foundation is based in VA.

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 9 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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