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Ming K Jeang Foundation at a glance

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Ming K Jeang 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$183kHealth$28kCrime & Legal$11kRecreation & Sports$11kYouth Development$7kScience & Tech$5kFood & Nutrition$1kHuman Services$150Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $240
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$550k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$10,000
80-20 NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN EDU FNDN$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY & MEDICINE$240
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BAPS CHARITIES: $50 → 8%BAPS CHARITIES: $50 → 8%BAPS CHARITIES: $50 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
UT
MD
AZ
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$113k · 7 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$113k
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

57%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240 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
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    2× · 2019–2022 · $28k · revenue +47%
  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +4%
  • BAPS CHARITIES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150 · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • University of Arizona Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +54%
  • CA
    CHINESE AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE ALLIANCE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -42%
  • 8N
    80-20 NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN EDU F
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its 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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
3
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Foundation of America (Sjtufa)
Education
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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6
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
7
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
8
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
10
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
11
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is World Youth Value Society Corp. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Arizona Foundation: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona FoundationOVERSEAS CHINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationOVERSEAS CHINA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONBaylor College of Medicine: $28,000 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine+2 more: $740 · Education80-20 NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN EDU FNDN: $22,500 · Other80-20 NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN …JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY MEDICINE: $20,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY MEDIC…80-20 NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN EDU F: $10,000 · Other80-20 NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN …World Youth Value Society Corp: $7,000 · OtherWorld Youth Value Society CorpSOCIETY OF CHINESE BIOSCIENTISTS IN: $5,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF CHINESE BIOSCIENTIS…+3 more: $3,250 · OtherNorthwestern University: $11,240 · Recreation & SportsCHINESE AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE ALLIANCE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Civil RightsBAPS CHARITIES INC: $150 · Human Services
Education$158,740Other$67,750Recreation & Sports$11,240Civil Rights$10,000Human Services$150

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 budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOVERSEAS CHINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $11,240 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE ALLIANCE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $240 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Ming K Jeang Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ming K Jeang Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 16 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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