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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 it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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

MI
NY
PA
CA
MD
DC
HI
GA
TX
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +111% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
HealthEducationInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Puente Learning Center; 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 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. 12 of the 66 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)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $100 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $70 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE POOR: $300 · InternationalJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $300 · Arts & Culture
Other$143,945Education$2,400Health$470International$300Arts & Culture$300

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 budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATHENIAN SCHOOL: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE POOR: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUENTE LEARNING CENTER: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 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 budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $70 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.

  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL ↗

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.

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

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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