California · Public charity
Robert J Louie Memorial Fund
Charitable work in raising funds for scholarship and other nonprofit activities.
- $306k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $295k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $260k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Robert J Louie Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $295k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $280k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $226k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $309k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $415k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $321k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $360k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $335k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-Help for the Elderly | $400,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chinese for Affirmative Actio | $389,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Chinatown Merchants Association | $250,385 | 6 | 12% |
| Apa Family Support Services | $155,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Community Youth Center of San Francisco | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Chinatown Community Development Center | $130,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chinese Historical Society of America | $125,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Center for Asian American Media | $100,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco | $90,000 | 7 | 0% |
| FOR-SITE Foundation | $85,000 | 2 | 12% |
Show all 32 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert J Louie Memorial Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Jessie Cheng Charitable Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation · Asian Pacific Fund · McNabb Foundation · Chinese Community Health Care Association · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Raymond and Joanne Lin Foundation · Cathay Bank Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Stupski Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area
How this is measured
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About Robert J Louie Memorial Fund
- How much does Robert J Louie Memorial Fund give?
- Robert J Louie Memorial Fund reported 12 itemized grants totaling $295,000, out of $305,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Robert J Louie Memorial Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Health (21%), Arts & Culture (20%).
- Who are Robert J Louie Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Self-Help for the Elderly ($400k), Chinese for Affirmative Actio ($390k), Chinatown Merchants Association ($250k).
- Does Robert J Louie Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert J Louie Memorial Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jessie Cheng Charitable Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation.
- Where is Robert J Louie Memorial Fund based?
- Robert J Louie Memorial Fund is based in CA.
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