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Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$1k0%
FY20231$8k100%
FY20222$40k0%
FY20215$61k60%
FY20206$75k67%
FY20192$99k100%
FY20185$120k80%
FY20172$81kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$385kHealth$63kArts & Culture$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kFood & Nutrition$7kInternational$5kSocial Science$1kPhilanthropy$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lakeside School$212,50040%
University of Washington$98,0001n/a
University of Washington Foundation$60,50030%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$40,00010%
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation$12,40530%
Seattle Children's Foundation$10,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10,00010%
Project Access Northwest$8,00010%
Northwest Harvest Emm$6,00020%
Stanwood-Camano Area Foundation$50010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLakeside School: $212,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Washington Foundation: $60,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWing Luke Memorial Foundation: $12,405 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Access Northwest: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwest Harvest Emm: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStanwood-Camano Area Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation

How much does Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation give?
Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (80%), Health (13%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lakeside School ($213k), University of Washington ($98k), University of Washington Foundation ($61k).
Does Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation based?
Paul Bao-Ho and Mei-Yea Liao Charitable Foundation is based in WA.

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

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