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S Ku 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.

$136k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$405kReligion$195kHealth$115kEducation$50kArts & Culture$26kInternational$14kPublic Benefit$150Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$975k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SASCC$71,758
HEART OF HOPE$10,000
AACI$10,000
CHINESE AMERICAN COALITION OF COMPASSIONATE CARE$10,000
TZE ZHAN MONASTERY$10,000
NEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION$10,000
CITY TEAM$7,000
CUPERTINO SENIOR CENTER$3,500
BLISS AND WISDOM CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION$3,000
CALIFORNIA PHILHARMONIC YOUTH ORCHESTRA$450
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 (FY18–24, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GIRLS WHO CODE: $5k → 17%WOMENSV: $3k → 8%SARATOGA AREA SENIOR COORDINATING COUNCIL 19655 ALLENDALE: $300k → 8%SARATOGA AREA SENIOR COORDINATING COUNCIL 19655 ALLENDALE: $50k → 8%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$677k · 11 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$677k
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+5%

Still filing today

64%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionInternationalOther

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

  • SA
    SARATOGA AREA SENIOR COORDINATING COUNCIL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $350k · revenue +92% · 31% of their budget
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +11%
  • TA
    THE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • NT
    NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +622%
  • ME
    METRO ED
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

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
Center for Advanced China Research
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2
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
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3
San Francisco Guzheng Music Society
Arts & Culture
4
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
5
Chinese American Womens Benevolent Association
Philanthropy
6
The Asian-American Senior Citizen Association
Human Services
7
Save Cantonese

Save Cantonese is an international movement that sustains and celebrates Cantonese language and culture. We have three Strategic Aims: a) protect and strengthen educational and research infrastructure for the Cantonese language, b) affirm…

Arts & Culture
8
The American Foundation for Chinese Medicine Inc

To advance the knowledge of chinese medicine through education and scientific research.

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9
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
10
Taiwanese-American Foundation
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11
Foundation for Chinese Cultural Heritage
Philanthropy
12
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Taiwan University Academic Development 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

18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 28 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)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SARATOGA AREA SENIOR COORDINATING COUNCIL — $350,000 · Human ServicesSARATOGA AREA SENIOR COORDINATING COUNCIL+2 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesSASCC — $164,258 · OtherSASCCHEART OF HOPE — $40,000 · OtherHEART OF HOPEMETRO ED — $20,000 · OtherMETRO EDIndividual grant recipient — $10,181 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $10,000 · OtherJCCAA — $10,000 · OtherOGAF — $10,000 · OtherTZE ZHAN MONASTERY — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $13,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…THE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC — $20,000 · HealthTHE ASIAN A…CHINESE AMERICAN COALITION FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE — $10,000 · HealthCHINESE AME…AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN LU…Friends of Children with Special Needs — $10,000 · HealthFriends of …LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 · HealthLUPUS FOUND…NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationNEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationSARATOGA THEATRE ARTS — $4,000 · EducationCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $21,000 · ReligionBliss & Wisdom Charitable Organization — $14,000 · InternationalDong Fang Chinese Performing Arts Association — $6,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA PHILHARMONIC YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $450 · Arts & CultureWreaths Across America — $150 · Public Benefit
Human Services$357,500Other$287,439Health$85,000Education$54,000Religion$21,000International$14,000Arts & Culture$6,450Public Benefit$150

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSARATOGA AREA SENIOR COORDINATING COUNCIL — $350,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetNATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBliss & Wisdom Charitable Organization — $14,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN COALITION FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Children with Special Needs — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDong Fang Chinese Performing Arts Association — $6,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARATOGA THEATRE ARTS — $4,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetHakone Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENSV — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWreaths Across America — $150 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.

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.

Sutter Bay Medical Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sutter Bay Medical FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 S Ku 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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