· Private foundation
Qin and Sun 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Saratoga Music Boosters | $12,768 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,900 |
| Peach Foundation | $2,416 |
| Saratoga High School | $624 |
| Nine Lives Foundation | $432 |
| Stanford Fund | $300 |
| Saratoga High School PTSO | $150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $120 |
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 (FY23–23, $449) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Qin and Sun Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 82%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 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
- SMSARATOGA MUSIC BOOSTERS6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +3%
- TPTHE PEACH FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +4%
- SHSARATOGA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- FLFirst Lego League Team 52914one grant, 2021 · $3k
- ACACE clubone grant, 2020 · $2k
- WWWalden West Science Campone grant, 2022 · $581
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.
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
Save Cantonese is an international movement that sustains and celebrates Cantonese language and culture. We have three Strategic Aims: a) protect and strengthen educational and research infrastructure for the Cantonese language, b) affirm…
Saint ann's exists to nurture the wonder of children. unfettered by grades, teachers and students embark on journeys of discovery in which the arts are central. through an ambitious curriculum and a culture of inquiry, we question the…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 37 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 SARATOGA MUSIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds THE PEACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Nine Lives Foundation ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY YOUTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds Redwood Glen ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA THEATRE ARTS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH LEAGUE TENNIS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICAN WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHBAY TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bright Funds Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Qin and Sun Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Qin and Sun Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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