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Qiu and Xu Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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

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

01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
$379
Median grant
2
States reached
$127k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$41,740
OAKLAND ZOO$658
WEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION$500
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$379
SAN JOSE CHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM$295
FILOLI CENTER$249
HAKONE FOUNDATION$120
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FIDELITY CHARITABLE: $42k → 16%FILOLI CENTER: $249 → 7%BILLY JONES WILDCAT LOS GATOS: $9 → 8%OAKLAND ZOO: $658 → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $379 → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GRADEN: $145 → 9%AMERICAN HOTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $50 → 6%TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $500 → 10%FIDELITY CHARITABLE: $26k → 16%FILOLI CENTER: $200 → 7%WEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%OAKLAND ZOO: $249 → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $349 → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $295 → 12%FIDELITY CHARITABLE: $25k → 16%FILOLI CENTER: $200 → 7%SAN JOSE CHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $295 → 8%OAKLAND ZOO: $209 → 10%SAN FRANCISCO ZOO: $219 → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $200 → 12%FIDELITY CHARITABLE: $4k → 16%HAKONE FOUNDATION: $120 → 8%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $200 → 12%CHILDREN DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $275 → 8%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4k · 4 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -26% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$4k
$698

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-26%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $915 went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +82%
  • CS
    CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1k · revenue -1%
  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $728 · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • CD
    CHILDREN DISCOVERY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $275
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $219 · revenue -36%
  • NT
    NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDENgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $145 · revenue +93%
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.

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Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
4
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
5
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc

Phipps' mission is to inspire and educate all with the beauty and importance of plants, to advance sustainability and promote human and environmental well-being through action and research, and to celebrate its historic glasshouse.

Environment
6
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
7
Quail Botanical Gardens Foundation

The mission of san diego botanic garden: we garden to create, share, and apply plant wisdom in our world. the organization's diverse topography and wide variety of microclimates provides visitors with the varied sensations of strolling…

Environment
8
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
9
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc

Frost science inspires and connects people of all ages and backgrounds to enjoy science and technology, and to better understand ourselves and our world.

Arts & Culture
10
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
11
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
12
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Zoological Society; the most unlike its peers is West Valley Mission Community College District Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $96,654 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND+1 more: $500 · Community ImprovementMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $1,195 · AnimalsCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA: $1,116 · AnimalsSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $219 · AnimalsCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $728 · Arts & CultureFILOLI CENTER: $649 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $295 · Arts & CultureTrustees of Dartmouth College: $500 · EducationCHILDREN DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $275 · OtherHakone Foundation: $120 · Other+1 more: $9 · OtherNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $145 · EnvironmentAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $50 · Environment
Community Improvement$97,154Animals$2,530Arts & Culture$1,672Education$500Other$404Environment$195

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $96,654 over 3y, 0.0% of 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 budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Qiu and Xu Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Qiu and Xu Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 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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