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Shan's 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$167kCivil Rights$30kArts & Culture$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kCommunity Improvement$6kCrime & Legal$5kHuman Services$5kReligion$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$378k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$9,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$5,000
ASIAN CINE-VISION INC$3,000
KQED$1,000
CALIFORNIA FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION$1,000
CALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITY$500
FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$200
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 (FY18–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITY: $500 → 6%CALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITY: $500 → 6%CALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITIES INC: $750 → 6%CALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITIES INC: $500 → 6%CALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITIES INC: $500 → 6%CALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITIES INC: $500 → 6%CALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITIES INC: $500 → 6%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$217k · 15 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$217k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-7%

Still filing today

73%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $134k · revenue +99%
  • TH
    THE HARKER SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2022 · $17k · revenue +35%
  • KI
    KQED INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHINESE AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE ALLIANCE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -70%
  • R
    RHO
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR EDUCATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +12%
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
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
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2
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
3
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
4
California Federation of Teachers Disaster Relief Fund
Membership Benefit
5
California University - Silicon Valley

Providing professional training of Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture, Chinese herbology, acupressure, Qigong and so on, granting the students Masters degree. Its a three to four years teaching program.

Education
6
Chinese University Alumni Association of Southern California Center for Edu
Education
7
Silicon Valley Koreans Inc

The primary exempt purpose is to support and promote the Korean-American community in Silicon Valley through educational, cultural, and charitable activities.

Community Improvement
8
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
9
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
10
Southern California Council of Chinese Schools

To promote, propagate and perpetuate chinese language and culture to assist and guide member chinese schools for their betterment to encourage cooperation and to facilitate the interchange of ideas and experiences among member chinese…

—
11
Los Altos Journalism Foundation
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12
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Perserving the Truth of Sino-Japan War. 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
8/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $134,461 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIONSILICON VALLEY CHINESE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $22,000 · EducationSILICON VALLEY CHINESE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONTHE HARKER SCHOOL: $17,000 · EducationTHE HARKER SCHOOLNew York University: $15,000 · EducationNew York University+1 more: $4,000 · EducationRHO: $5,000 · OtherRHOCHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL MISSION IN AM ERICA: $3,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN EVA…SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY UNITED: $3,000 · OtherSILICON VALLE…SILICON VALLEY CHAPTER OF AMERICAN HARP SOCIETY: $3,000 · OtherSILICON VALLE…PACIFIC RIM CULTURE ALLIANCE: $2,000 · OtherPACIFIC RIM C…LOS GATOS POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · OtherLOS GATOS POL…Citizens for Better Community: $1,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $1,400 · OtherSVCAHS: $1,000 · OtherCHINESE FOR CHRIST CHURCH OF SAN JOSE: $1,000 · OtherPACIFIC COAST COMPETITIVE FIGURE SKATERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENTAND SUPPORT GROUP INC: $1,000 · Other+4 more: $1,350 · OtherCHINESE AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE ALLIANCE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR EDUCATION: $5,000 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIANS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Civil RightsKQED INC: $4,600 · Arts & CultureASIAN CINE-VISION INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR PERSERVING THE TRUTH OF SINO-JAPAN WAR: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITY: $3,750 · Human ServicesVOICE OF AMERICAN YOUTH: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,744 · HealthLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD: $1,000 · Health
Education$192,461Other$29,250Civil Rights$12,500Arts & Culture$8,600Human Services$3,750Youth Development$3,000Health$2,744

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 CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $134,461 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CHINESE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetTHE HARKER SCHOOL: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE ALLIANCE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR EDUCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetKQED INC: $4,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Fraternal Order of Police Foundation: $4,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITY: $3,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVOICE OF AMERICAN YOUTH: $3,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCALIFORNIANS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,744 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens for Better Community: $1,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR PERSERVING THE TRUTH OF SINO-JAPAN WAR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of Fremont AKA Rotary International: $450 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shan's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shan's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Shan's Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Shan's 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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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