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Pei Family 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.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$63kFood & Nutrition$36kEducation$36kReligion$27kPhilanthropy$21kHealth$8kEmployment$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$755k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Intl Buddhist Progress Society$10,000
Houston Food Bank$5,000
Childrens Foundation Las Vegas$5,000
Felton Institute$5,000
Childrens Council of San Francisco$5,000
Rice University$5,000
Ronald McDonald House$5,000
AARP Foundation$2,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Children's Council of San Francisco: $5k → 10%Childrens Council of San Francisco: $5k → 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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$158k · 9 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$158k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-12%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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

  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • CC
    Children's Council of San Francisco
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • BA
    BAY AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • MM
    Mothers Milk Bank of California
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • BC
    BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +108%
  • OV
    Opportunity Village Thrift Store
    one grant, 2020 · $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
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
4
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
Food in Need of Distribution Inc

Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.

Food & Nutrition
6
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
7
Family Caregiver Alliance

To support and assist caregivers of adults with chronic diseases and conditions through education, services, research and advocacy.

Health
8
The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Inc

To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.

Human Services
9
Spring Branch Community Health Center

To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.

Health
10
Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento

The mission of the child abuse prevention council of sacramento (capc) is to reduce child abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
11
The Children's Clinic 'Serving Children and Their Families'

TCC Family Health mission is to provide innovative, integrated, quality health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being.

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12
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blind Center of Nevada Inc; the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ronald McDonald House: $35,500 · OtherRonald McDonald HouseChildrens Foundation Las Vegas: $21,000 · OtherChildrens Foundation Las VegasINTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY: $19,900 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETYNEVADA BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION: $7,200 · OtherNEVADA BUDDHIST ASSOCIATIONFelton Institute: $5,000 · OtherMothers Milk Bank of California: $5,000 · OtherBLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC: $5,000 · OtherOpportunity Village Thrift Store: $5,000 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank: $5,000 · OtherCASA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $3,000 · OtherTHREE SQUARE: $26,000 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUAREWilliam Marsh Rice University: $25,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh …Children's Council of San Francisco: $10,000 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesSTAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 · PhilanthropyOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE: $5,000 · Employment
Other$116,600Food & Nutrition$26,000Education$25,000Human Services$12,000Philanthropy$10,500Employment$5,000

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 budgetTHREE SQUARE: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Council of San Francisco: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFelton Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH: $2,500 over 3y, 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 THREE SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds STAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Council of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds Felton Institute ↗
  • Who funds BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds CASA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pei Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pei Family 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 →median 22%
  • Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc: 22% of 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 18 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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