· Private foundation
Ping and Amy Chao 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $177k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $695k
- $250k+2 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| GANSU PROVINCIAL MATERNITY AND CHILD-CARE HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER | $160,000 |
| TRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC | $120,000 |
| ANGKOR HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC | $107,000 |
| LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL | $72,000 |
| BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION | $68,960 |
| HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE INC | $61,550 |
| CHILDREN ON THE EDGE | $53,032 |
| KIDSPIRE | $52,000 |
| THE FREEDOM STORY | $40,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEARTLINK | $40,000 |
| 1001 FONTAINES POUR DEMAIN | $40,000 |
| HOPE HORIZON EAST PALO ALTO | $32,000 |
| RENEWAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($12M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($2.1M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($2.1M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
34 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +5%
- TFTRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +18% · 56% of their budget
- CHCHILDREN'S HEARTLINK8× · 2017–2025 · $758k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- TNThe NCTU Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $147k · revenue +154% · 32% of their budget
- LILOVE146 INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $95k · revenue +115%
ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide humanitarian support in China. Help to develop a civil society in China. Promote rule-of-law,human rights, and freedom of expressions.Focus on grass-root and people who are neglected by the outside world
Provide food, clothing, shelter, education, and medical care to underprivileged children in Asia.
By altering the future of vulnerable children in cambodia through life changing programs of christian education and community development, asian hope is creating a generation of compassionate, equipped, christian leaders.
Religious
Child Family Health International is dedicated to transformative Global Health Education programs, research, and thought leadership emphasizing community leadership, global citizenship, and ethical engagement.
Chab dai international is dedicated to addressing human trafficking and labor exploitation in the united states, cambodia and around the globe through coalition-building, capacity-building, advocacy and research.
Serve the medical and emotional needs of marginalized men, women, and especially children in china, providing eternal hope for a brighter future.
At Partners Asia, we build relationships with innovative organizers in these communities and with international donors, bridging the gap between local leaders and global resources.
To help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by providing resources and financial support to projects throughout Asia
Thrive Networks' expertise is built on over 30 years of experience of designing, testing, and implementing cutting-edge, evidence-based programs in water supply, sanitation and hygiene WASH, economic empowerment, gender equity, healthy…
The Himalayan Children's Fund is a way for people around the world, and the west in particular, to connect with the lives of people in the Himalayan Region of Nepal, India and Tibet. HCF provides support for Thrangu Rinpoche's many…
To fill in the gaps of health service needs prioritizing conflict affected community provide life saving emergency services and frontline first aid care help strengthen resistance and resilience of the healthcare workers as well as help to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transparent Fish Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Nctu Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK ↗
- Who funds ANGKOR HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds KIDSPIRE ↗
- Who funds BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds San Francisco City Impact ↗
- Who funds WATERING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds Equalize Health Formerly D-Rev ↗
- Who funds HOPE HORIZON EAST PALO ALTO ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SAHAYA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ONE HEART HEALTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Freedom Story ↗
- Who funds The NCTU Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC INTEGRATED SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CANCER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGAPE FISH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds JENNY LIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH EAST ASIA PRAYER CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Transparent Fish Fund Inc · Cherith Christian Private Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · The Yelp Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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