How much does Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation give?

Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $76,220 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Education (18%), Human Services (17%).

Who are Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Taylor Family Foundation ($55k), Self-Help for the Elderly ($54k), Asian Law Caucus ($27k).

Does Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Raymond and Joanne Lin 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.

Which funders back the same organizations as Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Where is Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation based?

Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation is based in CA.

Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation

Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Raymond and Joanne Lin 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.

$76k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$17k

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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$112kEducation$106kHuman Services$101kCivil Rights$66kArts & Culture$48kInternational$26kHousing & Shelter$21kCrime & Legal$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k50 grants · $60k
$10k–50k1 grant · $17k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY	$16,500
ASIAN LAW CAUCUS	$5,000
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND	$5,000
MOONSTAR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION	$3,500
KQED	$3,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION	$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM	$2,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN	$2,000
ACLU FOUNDATION	$2,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION-NORCAL CHAP	$2,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES	$1,750
DONORSCHOOSEORG	$1,720
COASTSIDE HOPE	$1,500
CHILDHELP	$1,500
FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SF	$1,100

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$499k · 63 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$499k

$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+8%

Still filing today

71%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationOther

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

SF
SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY
8× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +72%
AL
Asian Law Caucus
7× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +180%
CA
Contemporary Asian Theatre Scene Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +797%

Funded once

DA
Desert Ability Center
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -81%
UB
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION GIFT SERVICE
one grant, 2022 · $5k
UP
UNITED PEACE COLLABORATIVE
one grant, 2021 · $3k

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International

Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Root Change Inc

Root change's mission is to bring people together to question assumptions, think deeply, test ideas, and lead the way to a world built on social justice principles.

Employment

Alliance for Safety and Justice

Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…

Crime & Legal

California Partnership to End Domestic Violence

The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…

Civil Rights

Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Robert M Hoffman Foundation for Cancer Research. 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

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 133 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

91/91

Grantees still filing

55/91

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$281,470Human Services$101,000Recreation & Sports$63,200Arts & Culture$48,900Crime & Legal$38,500International$23,000Civil Rights$20,100

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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA28.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · McNabb Foundation · Robert J Louie Memorial Fund · Asian Pacific Fund · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · United Way of the Bay Area · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community 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 Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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