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Qiu and Xu 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.

$44k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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95% of Qiu and Xu Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’21
5
’22
3
’23
3
’24
6
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$379
Largest grant, FY2025
$41,740
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$127k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Qiu and Xu Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $349 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving6$2k50%
FY20243$1k33%
FY20235$1k60%
FY20225$82380%
FY20211$200n/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$55kAnimals$2kArts & Culture$675Education$500Science & Tech$349Environment$195Recreation & Sports$9

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($284), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Qiu and Xu Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $1,195 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Society of California: $1,116 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Academy of Sciences: $728 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFiloli Center: $649 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWest Valley Mission Community College District Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Zoological Society: $219 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Tropical Botanical Garden: $145 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHakone Foundation: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Horticultural Society: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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About Qiu and Xu Family Foundation

How much does Qiu and Xu Family Foundation give?
Qiu and Xu Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $43,941 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Qiu and Xu Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (94%), Animals (3%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Qiu and Xu Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation ($1k), Conservation Society of California ($1k), California Academy of Sciences ($728).
Does Qiu and Xu Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Qiu and Xu Family 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.
Where is Qiu and Xu Family Foundation based?
Qiu and Xu Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 14 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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