· Private foundation
Peggy and Steven Chu Family Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Peggy and Steven Chu Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $70,000 |
| DWIGHT ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL | $1,389 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $1,000 |
| PACE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DSDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $194k · revenue +26%
- PUPACE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +21%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- BCBERGEN CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $6k
- EHENGLEWOOD HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $2k
- UCULSTER COUNTY SPCAone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +11%
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The center's mission is to provide quality childcare services to the morrisville state college campus and the local community in a safe and nurturing environment which promotes the social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF BERGEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BERGEN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ULSTER COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peggy and Steven Chu Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peggy and Steven Chu Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bergen Family Center: 25% of income from government
- Volunteer Center of Bergen County Inc: 4% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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