· Private foundation
S&P Kao 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rocklin Chinese Fellowship Church | $3,000 |
| Glory Gospel Ministries | $2,000 |
| Engineering Ministries International | $600 |
| Cru | $500 |
| Evergreen Family Friendship Service | $500 |
| International Justice Mission | $500 |
| Compassion International | $500 |
| Prison Fellowship | $400 |
| Samaritans Purse | $400 |
| William Jessup University | $300 |
| Agape International Missions | $300 |
| Sacramento Loaves and Fishes | $250 |
| Union Gospel Mission | $250 |
| Fellowship Church Inc | $250 |
| The Gospel Coalition | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $650) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +24%
Compassion International Incorporated5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +16%- AIAgape International Missions5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +41%
Funded once
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $400 · revenue +35%- APAsian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundationone grant, 2023 · $300 · revenue -1%
- C(Cru (US Ministry)one grant, 2021 · $300
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.
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.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Religious
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
To advance the gospel of jesus christ to every nation through pastoral care and missionary support.
To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
Global commission partners is an evangelical missionary not for profit organization dedicated to evaluate and support native ministries who are planting the gospel of jesus christ among unreach people groups in poor countries.
Jesus for asia exists for one purpose: to see as many people as possible accept eternal life before it's too late. we do this by going to the least reached section of the planet and by calling the church to re-engage its mission. in other…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Evergreen Family Friendship Services ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Agape International Missions ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization S&P Kao Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S&P Kao Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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