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Patricia Lee Wang 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.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$86kEducation$35kHealth$19kHuman Services$8kPhilanthropy$7kArts & Culture$5kYouth Development$5kAnimals$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$439k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$19,300
SUSAN G KOMEN$6,100
SADDLEBACK CHURCH$6,000
JONI AND FRIENDS$2,500
EL POZO DE VIDA$2,100
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LONG BEACH$1,766
DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES$1,000
DRAMATIC ALLIED ARTS GUILD$125
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.

US giving: 62% of grant dollars ($176k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 38% that went abroad ($109k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%WEALTH OF NATIONS FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $500 → 14%YOUVERSION: $120 → 16%TWELVEELEVEN 1211 MINISTRIES: $3k → 10%DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $2k → 13%KNITTED KNOCKERS: $100 → 12%WEALTH OF NATIONS FOUNDATION: $50 → 10%EVANGELICAL FORMOSAN CHURCH OF OC: $1k → 14%TWELVEELEVEN 1211 MINISTRIES: $500 → 10%DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $1k → 13%THE A21 CAMPAIGN INC: $1k → 10%STEEL MAGNOLIAS: $7k → 14%BICHON RESCUE OF OC: $825 → 10%STEEL MAGNOLIAS: $1k → 14%EL POZO DE VIDA: $2k → 10%STEEL MAGNOLIAS: $800 → 14%DAILY HOPE: $500 → 10%STEEL MAGNOLIAS: $300 → 14%AFRICA NEW DAY: $1k → 10%STEEL MAGNOLIAS: $250 → 14%MARINERS CHURCH: $5k → 10%STEEL MAGNOLIAS: $200 → 14%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $20k → 10%DRAMATIC ALLIED ARTS GUILD: $125 → 14%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $11k → 10%CLEANSING THE CHURCH MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $10k → 10%JONI AND FRIENDS: $3k → 14%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $8k → 10%CITY OF HOPE: $4k → 14%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $6k → 10%CITY OF HOPE: $2k → 14%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $6k → 10%PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL: $24k → 14%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $5k → 10%PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL: $10k → 14%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $3k → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LONG BEACH: $2k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LONG BEACH: $391 → 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.

Beyond the US: 38% of all-years giving ($109k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Madagascar$109k · 6 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$239k · 10 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$239k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+22%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
Youth DevelopmentHealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • PL
    PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $34k · revenue +13%
  • DF
    DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES
    2× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +67%
  • MM
    MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • MU
    MAUI UNITED WAYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +188%
  • TL
    TEEN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -27%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $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
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
5
New Media Ventures

We believe that by changing where capital is invested, we can shift the structures of power to benefit more people.

Public Benefit
6
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
7
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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8
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
9
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
10
Center for Creative Leadership

To advance the understanding, practice, and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide. the center conducts research, produces publications and provides a broad variety of educational programs to leaders and…

Education
11
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
12
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Teen Leadership 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

15 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. 15 of the 29 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $109,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSADDLEBACK CHURCH: $68,300 · OtherSADDLEBACK CHURCH+17 more: $34,577 · Other+17 morePRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC: $34,475 · EducationPRECIOUS LAMB…+1 more: $50 · EducationSTEEL MAGNOLIAS: $9,725 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $6,100 · HealthMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthMAUI UNITED WAY: $5,000 · PhilanthropyEl Pozo de Vida: $2,100 · PhilanthropyASIAN HALL OF FAME: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $3,000 · Animals
Other$212,177Education$34,525Youth Development$14,725Health$8,600Philanthropy$7,100Arts & Culture$5,000Animals$3,000

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 budgetPRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC: $34,475 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSTEEL MAGNOLIAS: $9,725 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $6,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEEN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN HALL OF FAME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAssistance League of Long Beach: $2,157 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEl Pozo de Vida: $2,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAfrica New Day Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPurpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $50 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 PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds STEEL MAGNOLIAS ↗
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds TEEN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN HALL OF FAME ↗
  • Who funds DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES ↗
  • Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Assistance League of Long Beach ↗
  • Who funds El Pozo de Vida ↗
  • Who funds Africa New Day Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE A21 CAMPAIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds Purpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION 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.

Temple Family Charita…Orange County Communi…California Community …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
Temple Family Charitable FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Temple Family Charitable Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Patricia Lee Wang Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Patricia Lee Wang 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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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