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Shaotran Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$29k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
10
Organizations funded FY2022
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88% of Shaotran Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Shaotran Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $29k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’22
14
’23
10
’24
17
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$5,000
States reached, FY2022
4
Total assets, FY2022
$2.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$332kEnvironment$32kScience & Tech$27kInternational$17kAnimals$8kArts & Culture$8kEducation$6kReligion$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pacific American Foundation$10,00020%
Center for Excellence in Education$5,00040%
Blind Vietnamese Children Foundation$5,00012%
Filoli Center$3,1101n/a
Yosemite Foundation$2,50010%
Pets In Need$2,50040%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$2,09230%
Hawaiian Humane Society$1,50030%
Palo Alto Humane Society$1,50030%
Ronald McDonald House Charities - Bay Area$1,50030%
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All grantees of Shaotran Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pacific American Foundation$10,00020%
Center for Excellence in Education$5,00040%
Blind Vietnamese Children Foundation$5,00012%
Filoli Center$3,1101n/a
Yosemite Foundation$2,50010%
Pets In Need$2,50040%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$2,09230%
Hawaiian Humane Society$1,50030%
Palo Alto Humane Society$1,50030%
Ronald McDonald House Charities - Bay Area$1,50030%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$1,50030%
Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation$1,00020%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,00010%
Prod Incorporated$1,0001n/a
Oahu Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anim$1,00020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$1,00010%
Abilitypath$1,00010%
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health$1,0001n/a
Symphony San Jose$1,00010%
Beaverton Symphony Orchestra$80011%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$62010%
Friends of the Palo Alto Parks$50011%
Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo$50010%
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum$5001n/a
Hui o Koolaupoko$500133%
United States Fund for Unicef$50010%
Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet$50010%
The Friends of Hanauma Bay$50012%
Friends of the Berkeley Public Library$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Shaotran Family Foundation 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.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPacific American Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Excellence in Education: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBlind Vietnamese Children Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYosemite Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPets In Need: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $2,092 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHawaiian Humane Society: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPalo Alto Humane Society: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities - Bay Area: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest of Silicon Valley: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOahu Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anim: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbilitypath: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSymphony San Jose: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeaverton Symphony Orchestra: $800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $620 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Palo Alto Parks: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHui o Koolaupoko: $500 over 1y, 33% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActerra Action for a Healthy Planet: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Friends of Hanauma Bay: $500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFriends of the Berkeley Public Library: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Philanthropic Venture…The Palo Alto Communi…Bright Funds Foundati…Marin Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA18.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Bright Funds Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About Shaotran Family Foundation

How much does Shaotran Family Foundation give?
Shaotran Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $28,904 in its FY2022 IRS filing.
What does Shaotran Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (75%), Environment (7%), Science & Tech (6%).
Who are Shaotran Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Pacific American Foundation ($10k), Center for Excellence in Education ($5k), Blind Vietnamese Children Foundation ($5k).
Does Shaotran Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shaotran Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, The Palo Alto Community Fund.
Where is Shaotran Family Foundation based?
Shaotran Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 40 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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