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Paige Lin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Human Services$78kPublic Safety & Disaster$51kEducation$8kHealth$2kCrime & Legal$2kYouth Development$1kReligion$1kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100
Median grant
3
States reached
$73k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Leukemia Lymphoma Society$100
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$70
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PA: $100 → 22%Carondelet High School: $100 → 9%Girl Scout Troop 2194: $1k → 10%Sang Nguyen: $5k → 10%UC Berkeley Foundation: $1k → 10%Friends of the Poor: $300 → 11%Good Samaritan MDM: $1k → 11%Japanese American National Museum: $300 → 14%Leukemia Lymphoma Society: $100 → 9%American Heart Association: $200 → 14%GiveCampus: $20 → 14%Georgia Tech Foundation Inc: $2k → 13%Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: $70 → 8%Carondelet High School: $50 → 9%Girl Scout Troop 1325: $100 → 10%YOUNG PEOPLE'S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $300 → 10%Sandie Tran: $5k → 11%AHMANSON-UCLA ADUAL CONGENITAL HEAR: $200 → 14%Planned Parenthood Action Fund: $100 → 14%THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 9%THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL: $200 → 10%Patrick Henry High School: $100 → 11%King's Church: $500 → 14%Young People's Symphony Orchestra: $100 → 10%Puente Learning Center: $200 → 14%King's Church: $500 → 14%Puente Learning Center: $100 → 14%Jason Pang Jr: $500 → 14%Norman Jung: $200 → 14%APCH A Place Called Home: $225 → 14%West Ranch High School: $200 → 14%KELLY YEUNG: $5k → 14%AIDS Project Los Angeles: $100 → 14%Partnership for Los Angeles Schools: $100 → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
PA
CA
MD
DC
HI
GA
TX

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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$42k · 7 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +111% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
56

Total granted

$42k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+111%
+25%

Still filing today

29%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
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
5
The Foundation for Aids Research

Amfar is dedicated to ending the global aids epidemic through innovative research. (see schedule o)

Health
6
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
7
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
8
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
9
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
10
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
11
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
12
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Puente Learning Center and the most unlike its peers is Japanese American National Museum. 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

12 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. 12 of the 66 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $14,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · Other+38 more — $24,445 · Other+38 moreGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · EducationPUENTE LEARNING CENTER — $300 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $100 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc — $200 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $100 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $100 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $70 · HealthJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $300 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE POOR — $300 · International
Other$143,945Education$2,400Health$470Arts & Culture$300International$300

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 budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATHENIAN SCHOOL — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUENTE LEARNING CENTER — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE POOR — $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $70 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 GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL

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.

California Community FoundationCA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Paige Lin 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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