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Patrick & Irene Yin Foundation at a glance

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Patrick & Irene Yin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$12kFood & Nutrition$9kHealth$8kScience & Tech$6kEducation$2kHuman Services$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Civil Rights$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$551k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMPERIAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$1,000
UCSF$500
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM$500
WASHINGTON HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE FOUN$500
KIVA$500
CHINESE HOSPITAL$500
CARE$500
SINO AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION$500
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$500
UNICEF$500
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: 76% of grant dollars ($31k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 24% that went abroad ($10k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIFE ELDER CARE: $500 → 10%LIFE ELDER CARE: $500 → 10%LIFE ELDER CARE: $300 → 10%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: 24% of all-years giving ($10k)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$6k · 7 grants
Italy$3k · 6 grants
Eswatini$500 · 1 grant
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37k · 16 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

$37k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+4%

Still filing today

56%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionCivil 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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +79%
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +112%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • RA
    RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +19%
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -77%
  • PC
    PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
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
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
2
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
5
Feeding America

Our mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with partner food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities we serve.

Food & Nutrition
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
8
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
9
Changing Narratives Africa

We accelerate African entrepreneurs to start and scale resilient and sustainable agribusinesses that feed Africa and the world by providing training, funding opportunities, trade linkages, and fostering a vibrant community of changemakers.…

Food & Nutrition
10
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
11
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

14 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. 14 of the 23 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPERIAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,300 · OtherIMPERIAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCUCSF: $3,450 · OtherUCSFALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3,250 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKWORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $3,000 · OtherWORLD FOOD PROGRAMORBIS INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 · OtherORBIS INTERNATIONALSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $1,500 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKSMILE TRAIN: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherWASHINGTON HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE FOUN: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,500 · Other+3 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,750 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,250 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICE…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,500 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE A…KIVA MICROFUNDS: $1,307 · InternationalKIVA MICROFUNDSPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $500 · InternationalCHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $1,500 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $200 · HealthSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $1,500 · Food & NutritionLIFE ELDERCARE INC: $1,300 · Human ServicesOVERSEAS CHINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,300 · EducationASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $500 · Civil Rights
Other$24,000International$10,307Health$1,700Food & Nutrition$1,500Human Services$1,300Education$1,300Civil Rights$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $1,307 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE ELDERCARE INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOVERSEAS CHINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $200 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds CHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
  • Who funds LIFE ELDERCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds OVERSEAS CHINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC ↗
  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Patrick & Irene Yin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patrick & Irene Yin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 23 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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