· Private foundation
Meiychang 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Meiychang Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Meiychang Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $40k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $23,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $5,000 |
| ALL HANDS VOLUNTEERS OFFICE | $5,000 |
| AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SAN JOSE TAIKO | $2,000 |
| IN TAISHAN BUDDHISM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN BUDDHIST CULTURAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2017, 1 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2017–2018 · $45k
- SJSan Jose Taiko Group Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue -5%
- TAThe Against Malaria Foundation2× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $16k
- ZCZEN CENTER OF SUNNYVALEone grant, 2018 · $10k
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +129%
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.
Provide humanitarian support in China. Help to develop a civil society in China. Promote rule-of-law,human rights, and freedom of expressions.Focus on grass-root and people who are neglected by the outside world
To alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression through direct aid, economic and techinical assistance, education and other forms of charitable assistance to people in need throughout the world
Providing philanthropists, foundations and family offices access to social investment expertise by allowing the donors to give tax deductible donations worldwide through a social investment market.
Transparent fish fund is a 501(c)(3) us non-profit organization founded in 2011 in palo alto, california, established exclusively for charitable purposes to connect credible chinese and east asian grassroots ngos with individuals from the…
Give2asia provides philanthropic services to individuals, foundations, corporations and charitable organizations in the united states and asia. give2asia matches donor interests and grantee mission and capacity to make international…
Our mission is to connect caring people with great causes worldwide.
Founded in 1995, the american friends of the shanghai museum is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness and financial support for the shanghai museum, continuing a distinguished history of patron support for…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To drive global coordination that minimizes extreme AI risks and ensures the benefits of AI are shared by all. SAIF fosters responsible governance to reduce catastrophic risks through shared understanding and collaboration among key global…
Strategic Global Response effectively and efficiently delivers life-saving care to people affected by humanitarian crises, in the most challenging situations on earth
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds San Jose Taiko Group Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MORINGA FOR LOVE ↗
- Who funds THE SOAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CULTURE FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Meiychang Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meiychang Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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