· Private foundation
Michelle Chiou Foundation
Its FY2022 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, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Michelle Chiou Foundation-MCF Taiwa | $153,306 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CHU FOUNDATION | $8,059 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 45% of grant dollars ($243k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 55% that went abroad ($300k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 55% of all-years giving ($300k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Michelle Chiou Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SOSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC3× · 2019–2021 · $33k · revenue +2%
- IFINDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +208%
- DWDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- POPencils of Promise Inc POPone grant, 2020 · $30k
- SFSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +42%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…
San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation works to empower and support women who are experiencing housing instability and sexual exploitation or trafficking, by creating survivor-centered spaces, services advocacy and community…
Colettes childrens home provides housing and supportive services to homeless women and children with nowhere to turn. we work to remove the barriers that cause displacement and provide the means for transition from homelessness to stable…
The mission of fair opportunity for change, inc. is to provide quality interim supportive housing services to homeless single adults and families with children.
To provide safe housing, critical services, and ground-breaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives.
Serving people in whatcom county with behavioral health needs by providing emergency shelter and supportive housing.
Children of The Immaculate Heart Exists to promote the dignity of the human person and to uphold the goodness and beauty of both the masculine and feminine genius. Specifically, Children of The Immaculate Heart serves men, women, and…
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
Homeless shelter for women and children and families transitioning through training from homelessness and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency.
CHS guides youth and young adults forward to hope and resiliency.
Urban Angels SF (Urban Angels) is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to sustain the homeless of San Francisco while they are in transition from living on the streets to safe permanent housing. Our volunteers provide sustenance…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 24 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 SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LET IT BE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZOE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Children of the Night ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION 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: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michelle Chiou Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michelle Chiou Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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