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Sean and Christine Yu Private Foundation at a glance

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Sean and Christine Yu Private 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.

$440k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.3MHealth$221kArts & Culture$195kYouth Development$21kReligion$20kEmployment$12kSocial Science$12kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $336k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$525k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cal Poly Pomona Philanthropic Foundation$125,000
The University of Chicago$111,000
TAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND$100,000
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL$35,000
Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater LA$30,000
UC DAVIS FOUNDATION$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PASADENA$5,000
The Huntington Library Art Museu and B$3,000
USC Arcadia Hospital$3,000
Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation$1,000
GLENDALE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$1,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$500
02The need
03

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 (FY18–22, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Marici: $1k → 10%Asian-American Accounting Research & Dev: $11k → 14%Asian-American Accounting Research & Dev: $1k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $500 → 14%Pasadena-Foothill Valley YWCA: $1k → 14%Pasadena-Foothill Valley YWCA: $1k → 14%Taiwanese American Seniors Association: $400 → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $500 → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $500 → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $500 → 14%Midnight Mission: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 27 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
34

Total granted

$2.6M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+16%

Still filing today

81%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • University of Chicago
    8× · 2017–2024 · $674k · revenue +56%
  • TA
    TAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    7× · 2017–2024 · $635k · revenue +183% · 37% of their budget
  • CP
    CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $316k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • SA
    Scholarship America
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • UA
    UNITED ASIAN PACIFIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TC
    Temple City Immanuel Church of the Nazar
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
University of California Student Association

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…

Education
4
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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5
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
6
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
7
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
8
Usc Health System

The Corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The Corporation is…

Health
9
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

—
10
The Chicago School - California Inc

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

—
11
Taipei American School Foundation

Taipei american school's mission is to cultivate an enduring commitment to learning, personal well-being, and service. tas provides a broad american-based education with a global perspective that develops students of character who are…

Education
12
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is The Alliance Cultural Foundation International. 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

46 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. 46 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
30/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Chicago: $674,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $635,000 · EducationTAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUNDCAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC: $316,000 · EducationCAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INCPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $168,642 · EducationPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL+6 more: $114,925 · Education+6 moreCAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $245,000 · PhilanthropyCAL POLY P…+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $100,000 · HealthPasadena …THE NATIONAL FRAGILE X FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthTHE NATIO…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $25,000 · HealthChildren'…USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,300 · Health+4 more: $12,000 · Health+4 moreScholarship America: $100,000 · OtherUSC PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM: $15,000 · OtherSINO AMERICAN CPA ASSOCIATION: $11,600 · OtherThe Huntington Library Art Museu and B: $11,000 · OtherAsian Pacific Community Fund of Southern: $10,000 · OtherTemple City Immanuel Church of the Nazar: $10,000 · OtherBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+22 more: $31,650 · OtherTAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $148,249 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $5,900 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $11,700 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA: $18,600 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentASIAN-AMERICAN ACCOUNTING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Human ServicesPASADENA - FOOTHILL VALLEY YWCA: $2,000 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FIT: $1,500 · Human ServicesMARICI: $1,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,400 · Human Services
Education$1,908,567Philanthropy$247,000Health$222,300Other$199,250Arts & Culture$165,849Youth Development$20,600Human Services$17,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago: $674,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $635,000 over 7y, 37% of budgetCAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC: $316,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $245,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $168,642 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $148,249 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FRAGILE X FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA: $18,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN-AMERICAN ACCOUNTING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Oaks Education Corporation: $8,625 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $5,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE WEST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE CLUB OF SAN MARINO: $3,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTUF UNITED FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN CPA ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActive Minds Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA - FOOTHILL VALLEY YWCA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOLYMPIA PHIHARMONIC SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC & MEMORY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE CULTURAL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVALUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLENDALE TEACHERS ASSOC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN SENIORS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CALIFORNIA: $400 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

California Community …Asian Pacific Communi…Pasadena Community Fo…The California Wellne…The Rose Hills Founda…T Rowe Price Program …Kmcf FoundationKenjohn and Jacquelin…Icare Philanthropic F…John Jewett & Helen C…Elbridge Stuart Found…The Ahmanson Foundati…
California Community FoundationCA20.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · Pasadena Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Kmcf Foundation · Kenjohn and Jacqueline Wang Foundation · Icare Philanthropic Foundation · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Ahmanson 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 Sean and Christine Yu Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sean and Christine Yu Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sean and Christine Yu Private Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sean and Christine Yu Private 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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