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Min and Haifeng Chen 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.

$118k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$918kEducation$24kCivil Rights$3kPhilanthropy$2kCommunity Improvement$1kFood & Nutrition$100Public Benefit$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Christian Witness Theological Semin$100,000
WEST HOUSTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH$10,050
MINORITIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL$4,000
KINGDOM LIFE CHRIST CHURCH OAKLAND$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,100
COMPREHENSIVE ACTION NETWORK INC$500
COLLEGE STATION CHINESE CHURCH$300
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EUROPE CAMPUS MINISTRY: $5k → 17%FRIENDS OF GRACE: $10k → 8%CHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%KINGDOM LIFE CHRIST CHURCH OAKLAND: $4k → 10%MINORITIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 12%TOUCH LIFE MISSION: $10k → 14%UC DAVIS: $5k → 16%CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATION INC: $2k → 16%PROJECT HOOD: $1k → 14%GLOBAL ENRICHMENT: $5k → 8%FRIENDS OF GRACE: $5k → 8%CHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%KINGDOM LIFE CHRIST CHURCH OAKLAND: $4k → 10%MINORITIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 12%TOUCH LIFE MISSION: $10k → 14%UC DAVIS: $2k → 16%CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATION INC: $2k → 16%Christian Witness Theological Semin: $150k → 8%CHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%KINGDOM LIFE CHRIST CHURCH OAKLAND: $4k → 10%MINORITIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 12%CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATION INC: $2k → 16%Christian Witness Theological Semin: $100k → 8%CHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%KINGDOM LIFE CHRIST CHURCH OAKLAND: $2k → 10%MINORITIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 12%WEST HOUSTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $10k → 16%Christian Witness Theological Semin: $100k → 8%KINGDOM LIFE CHRIST CHURCH OAKLAND: $2k → 10%MINORITIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 12%NORTHWEST CHINESE BAPTIST CHURCH: $170k → 16%Christian Witness Theological Semin: $60k → 8%MINORITIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 12%NORTHWEST CHINESE BAPTIST CHURCH: $20k → 16%Christian Witness Theological Semin: $50k → 8%CFCC HAYWARD: $12k → 10%Christian Witness Theological Semin: $50k → 8%CFCC HAYWARD: $4k → 10%Christian Witness Theological Semin: $50k → 8%CFCC HAYWARD: $4k → 10%Christian Witness Theological Semin: $30k → 8%CFCC HAYWARD: $1k → 10%Christian Witness Theological Semin: $21k → 8%EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%COMPREHENSIVE ACTION NETWORK INC: $1k → 10%PIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%PIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%SYSU ALUMNI NETWORK OF NC: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$951k · 14 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$951k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+75%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
ReligionHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CW
    CHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $611k · revenue +113%
  • MF
    MINORITIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +26%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF GRACE
    2× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • EC
    EUROPE CAMPUS MINISTRY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • PH
    PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +75%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christian Mission to the Orient

The organization is a missionary sending/sponsoring organizations that engage in Christian evangelism and training leaders for the churches in SE Asia

2
Chinese Christian Life Fellowship Inc

To edify and make disciples of mainland china and overseas chinese christians to become devoted to only one great person: jesus christ the lord and savior and be motivated by only one greater purpose: building up his church for his glory

Religion
3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

4
Chinese Overseas Christian Mission Inc

An evangelical interdenominational missionary society dedicated to reaching chinese for christ.

Religion
5
Chinese Christian Mission Inc

To reach out to the chinese worldwide in local evangelism and foreign missions. this purpose is facilitated through the use of missionaries, evangelism training and literature.

Religion
6
Trinity Christian Fellowship Inc

Gospel mission

Religion
7
Convention of Full Gospel Churches

The Convention of Full Gospel Churches exists to be a Holy Spirit-empowered, Christ-centered fellowship of churches, faithfully proclaiming the Word of God, ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit, equipping the saints for service, and…

Religion
8
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
9
Kingdom of God Ministry

We are a Christian organization. The mission of this ministry is to preach the Gospel to all nations through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, declare God's glory among the nations and His marvelous deeds.

10
Grace Bible Fellowship of Antioch

Grace Bible Fellowship of Antioch is dedicated to winning this world for Christ through the preaching of the undiluted word of God and exemplary actions that glorify Christ.

Religion
11
International Fellowship of Christian Short-Term Missions Incorporated

To engage in local and overseas evangelism, mission training & supports, empowering churches worldwide to live out the short-term mission movement, where chiristians can participate in sharing the gospel and fulfilling the great commission.

Religion
12
World Christian Restaurant Ministriesinc

To evangelize christianity to underserved chinese workers and employers in service and restaurant industries worldwide.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overseas Campus Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is China Soul for Christ 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $611,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYNORTHWEST CHINESE BAPTIST CHURCH — $190,130 · OtherNORTHWEST CHINESE BAPTIST CHURCH+14 more — $86,810 · Other+14 moreMINORITIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL — $26,300 · ReligionTOUCH LIFE MISSION DR GORDON S LEE — $20,000 · ReligionCHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION — $16,000 · Religion+1 more — $1,030 · ReligionFRIENDS OF GRACE — $15,000 · HealthPIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,500 · PhilanthropyPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,000 · Community ImprovementAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank — $100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$887,940Religion$63,330Health$15,000Education$5,000Philanthropy$1,500Community Improvement$1,000Food & Nutrition$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $611,000 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetMINORITIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL — $26,300 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTOUCH LIFE MISSION DR GORDON S LEE — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF GRACE — $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOVERSEAS CAMPUS MINISTRIES INC — $1,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
  • Who funds MINORITIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds TOUCH LIFE MISSION DR GORDON S LEE
  • Who funds CHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF GRACE
  • Who funds PIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OVERSEAS CAMPUS MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Who funds Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Joshua MissionCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joshua Mission · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Min and Haifeng Chen Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Min and Haifeng Chen Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Min and Haifeng Chen 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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