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Robert and Shirley Yu Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$115k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fund
0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Health$226kEducation$148kCommunity Improvement$21kHuman Services$11kPhilanthropy$10kOther$179k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
$7,750
Median grant
2
States reached
$318k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PANDA CARES FOUNDATION INC$36,569
HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL$25,000
ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE -$20,000
CHANDLER SCHOOL$12,182
HIGH POINT ACADEMY$7,750
THE STOREHOUSE OF COLLIN COUNTY$5,000
SALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF-D$3,500
PASADENA CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL$3,000
JOURNEY HOUSE$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOURNEY HOUSE: $3k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE: $2k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE: $2k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE: $2k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE: $2k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE: $1k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$583k · 11 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$583k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+81%

Still filing today

73%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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

  • PH
    Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd
    6× · 2019–2024 · $225k · revenue +25%
  • TC
    THE CHANDLER SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +31%
  • HP
    HIGH POINT ACADEMY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +81%
  • VS
    VALUE SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +52%
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF ARCADIA CA FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2017 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Maranatha High School

Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…

Education
2
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

3
Flintridge Preparatory School

Learning with purpose in a diverse and nurturing community, flintridge prep students thrive in adolescence and grow as curious scholars, creative thinkers , empathetic leaders, and global citizens.

Education
4
Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc

Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…

Education
5
Collegiate Charter High School of Los Angeles

Collegiate charter high of los angeles will prepare all students in grades 9 through 12 for success in four-year colleges, professional careers, leadership in their communities, and lives of opportunity.

Education
6
Valley Christian School System

In the light of the lordship of jesus christ and the authority of god's word, we will educate each unique student in cooperation with the christian community so that he or she is equipped and inspired to make a difference for jesus christ…

Education
7
Da Vinci Schools La County

Da Vinci Schools: LA County consists of a public charter school, RISE High, which exists to provide our students an individualized education through the coalescence of their personal and professional goals, their interests, and the…

Education
8
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
9
Westside Neighborhood School

Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…

Education
10
Berkeley Hall School Foundation

Our mission is to "empower children to fulfill their unlimited, god-given potential as fearless scholars and conscientious citizens."

Education
11
Carlthorp School

Carlthorp school is an independent, nonprofit day school for children in grades k-6. carlthorp school provides a strong academic foundation in a diverse and nurturing school community that emphasizes traditional values, disciplined work…

Education
12
Polytechnic School

The mission of polytechnic school is to develop the unique intellect, talents, and character of each student in a community dedicated to academic excellence, personal responsibility, and service to others. the school envisions a community…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Don Ferrarese Charitable 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd — $225,000 · HealthPasadena Hospital Association Ltd+1 more — $1,000 · HealthASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - — $80,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE …PANDA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $48,580 · OtherPANDA CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONTHE CHANDLER SCHOOL — $30,182 · OtherTHE CHANDLER SCHOOLSALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF-D — $20,000 · OtherSALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF-…+1 more — $500 · OtherPANDA CARES FOUNDATION INC — $114,039 · EducationPANDA CARES FOUNDATION INCHIGH POINT ACADEMY — $26,750 · EducationHIGH POINT ACADEMYPASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $6,000 · Education+2 more — $1,250 · EducationTHE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER — $20,500 · Community ImprovementJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Health$226,000Other$179,262Education$148,039Community Improvement$20,500Human Services$11,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd — $225,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPANDA CARES FOUNDATION INC — $114,039 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHANDLER SCHOOL — $30,182 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH POINT ACADEMY — $26,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER — $20,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $11,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDon Ferrarese Charitable Foundation — $750 over 2y, 12% of budgetVALUE SCHOOLS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd
  • Who funds PANDA CARES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE CHANDLER SCHOOL
  • Who funds HIGH POINT ACADEMY
  • Who funds THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER
  • Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds Don Ferrarese Charitable Foundation
  • Who funds VALUE SCHOOLS

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Robert and Shirley Yu Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Robert and Shirley Yu Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert and Shirley Yu Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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