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Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation

SHENG-YEN LU FOUNDATION combines compassion and philanthropy with strategic grant-making to advance quality health and education for all.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.2MHuman Services$2.4MEducation$1.6MCivil Rights$1.4MCrime & Legal$1.1MInternational$540kArts & Culture$378kPublic Safety & Disaster$137kOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 67 grants below total $2,122,286, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,260,541 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $138,255 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k63 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
$31,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BYRD BARR PLACE$125,000
HEALTHPOINT$90,000
TOGETHER CENTER$50,000
ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE$43,000
WORLD RELIEF WESTERN WASHINGTON$41,600
KIN ON$41,000
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES (ICHS)$40,000
ONEAMERICA$40,000
DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER$39,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$37,640
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST$37,000
GLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE$36,896
NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT$36,000
KANDELIA$36,000
CHINESE INFORMATION AND SERVICE CENTER$36,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BYRD BARR PLACE: $125k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE (FISCAL SPONSOR FOR BIPOC ED COALITION): $125k → 9%COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF WASHINGTON STATE: $35k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WA STATE: $36k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $150k → 9%WAISNWASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK: $34k → 9%WASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK: $33k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $45k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $72k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $34k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $34k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $33k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE (REWA): $35k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE (REWA): $35k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $35k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $45k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $43k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $42k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $40k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $40k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $36k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $36k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $35k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $35k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $35k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $35k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $35k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $34k → 9%AFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE: $45k → 9%KANDELIA: $36k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $34k → 9%CHINESE INFORMATION AND SERVICE CENTER: $45k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $71k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD (COMMUNITY HEALTH BOARD COALITION): $40k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $39k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $37k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $37k → 9%CHINESE INFORMATION AND SERVICE CENTER: $36k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $37k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW (REFUGEES NW): $37k → 9%CHINESE INFORMATION AND SERVICE CENTER: $35k → 9%GLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE: $37k → 9%CHINESE INFORMATION AND SERVICE CENTER: $35k → 9%REFUGEES NORTHWEST: $35k → 9%CHINESE INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER: $35k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD (COMMUNITY HEALTH BOARD COALITION): $35k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $35k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $34k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
OR
CT
CA
CO
DC
GA
TX
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10.0M · 70 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
34

Total granted

$10.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+27%

Still filing today

97%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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

  • DL
    Denise Louie Education center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +55%
  • SOMALI HEALTH BOARD
    7× · 2018–2024 · $333k · revenue +217%
  • WA
    West African Community Council
    7× · 2018–2024 · $318k · revenue +546%

Funded once

  • AI
    AGING IN PACE WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -18% · 50% of their budget
  • SF
    Scholar Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +199%
  • EC
    El Comite
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
2
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
3
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
4
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
5
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
6
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
7
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
8
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
9
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
10
Somali Empowerment Circle

Sec provides culturally sensitive mental health resources, connects clients to professionals, offers education, emotional support, promotes maternal health, early childhold outcomes, and advocates for housing security for somali…

Community Improvement
11
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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12
Apic Spokane Asians for Collective Liberation in Spokane

ACL Spokane centers the power of Asians & Asian Americans build a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project; the most unlike its peers is Glover Empowermentoring. 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

115 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. 115 of the 121 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/115
Grantees still filing
77/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BYRD BARR PLACE: $407,000 · Human ServicesBYRD BARR PLACESOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $333,000 · Human ServicesSOMALI HEALTH BOARDLutheran Community Services Northwest: $272,800 · Human ServicesLutheran Community Services NorthwestRefugee Womens Alliance: $256,500 · Human ServicesRefugee Womens AllianceAGING IN PACE WASHINGTON: $250,000 · Human ServicesAGING IN PACE WASHINGTONASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $242,000 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICEKANDELIA: $224,000 · Human ServicesKANDELIAChinese Information and Service Center: $217,500 · Human ServicesChinese Information and Service CenterOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $203,000 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $185,000 · Human ServicesEast African Community Services: $171,300 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House INC: $141,500 · Human ServicesAFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE: $138,500 · Human Services+18 more: $846,046 · Human Services+18 moreINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $315,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL COMMUNI…HEALTHPOINT: $277,500 · HealthHEALTHPOINTNorthwest Health Law Advocates: $272,768 · HealthNorthwest Health Law …KIN ON HEALTH CARE CENTER: $241,500 · HealthKIN ON HEALTH CARE CE…COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER COALITION: $188,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH WORK…ENTRE HERMANOS: $154,500 · HealthENTRE HERMANOSNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH: $146,000 · HealthNEIGHBORCARE HEALTHProject Access Northwest: $133,500 · HealthProject Access Northw…Consejo Counseling & Referral Service: $90,000 · HealthNAMI Seattle: $84,475 · HealthGLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE: $74,000 · Health+6 more: $175,000 · Health+6 moreDenise Louie Education center: $385,000 · EducationDenise Louie…HIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $134,000 · EducationHIGHLINE COL…Para Los Ninos de Highline: $131,000 · EducationPara Los Nin…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $115,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSS…CASA LATINA: $70,000 · EducationCASA LATINALITERACY SOURCE A COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $63,200 · EducationPARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT: $62,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES OF ROOTED BRILLIANCE: $60,000 · EducationScholar Fund: $60,000 · Education+6 more: $135,394 · Education+6 moreNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $234,400 · OtherNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGH…TOGETHER CENTER: $100,000 · OtherCollege Access Now: $95,500 · OtherCOLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICES: $186,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICESAPI CHAYA: $144,000 · OtherAPI CHAYAEASTSIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $104,000 · OtherLIVING WELL KENT COLLABORATIVE: $200,500 · OtherLIVING WELL KENT COLLABO…ONEAMERICA: $223,000 · OtherONEAMERICAWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $130,000 · OtherAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT: $99,000 · Other+35 more: $984,450 · Other+35 moreCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO: $283,000 · Civil RightsPacific Islander Community Association of WA: $182,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $65,000 · Civil RightsTasveer: $25,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsWest African Community Council: $318,000 · Arts & CultureINDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $112,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for Asian American Media: $62,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $281,900 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $129,640 · InternationalMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · International
Human Services$3,888,146Health$2,152,743Education$1,215,594Other$2,500,850Civil Rights$580,000Arts & Culture$552,000International$481,540

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 budgetBYRD BARR PLACE: $407,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDenise Louie Education center: $385,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $333,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetWest African Community Council: $318,000 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $315,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO: $283,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $281,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHPOINT: $277,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $272,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Health Law Advocates: $272,768 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance: $256,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAGING IN PACE WASHINGTON: $250,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $242,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKIN ON HEALTH CARE CENTER: $241,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $234,400 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKANDELIA: $224,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetONEAMERICA: $223,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetChinese Information and Service Center: $217,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $203,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetLIVING WELL KENT COLLABORATIVE: $200,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER COALITION: $188,500 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetCOLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICES: $186,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $185,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPacific Islander Community Association of WA: $182,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetEast African Community Services: $171,300 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetENTRE HERMANOS: $154,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH: $146,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAPI CHAYA: $144,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNeighborhood House INC: $141,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE: $138,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $134,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetProject Access Northwest: $133,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetPara Los Ninos de Highline: $131,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $130,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $129,640 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $112,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetEASTSIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $104,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetWashington Academy for International Medical Gradu: $103,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetTOGETHER CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT: $99,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK: $99,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCouncil On American-Islamic Relations: $97,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCollege Access Now: $95,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $93,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetConsejo Counseling & Referral Service: $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI Seattle: $84,475 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetMOTHER AFRICA: $82,500 over 2y, 2.9% 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.

  • Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Denise Louie Education center ↗
  • Who funds SOMALI HEALTH BOARD ↗
  • Who funds West African Community Council ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds COLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHPOINT ↗
  • Who funds Lutheran Community Services Northwest ↗
  • Who funds Northwest Health Law Advocates ↗
  • Who funds Refugee Womens Alliance ↗
  • Who funds AGING IN PACE WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds KIN ON HEALTH CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds KANDELIA ↗
  • Who funds ONEAMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Chinese Information and Service Center ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds LIVING WELL KENT COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER COALITION ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Islander Community Association of WA ↗
  • Who funds East African Community Services ↗
  • Who funds ENTRE HERMANOS ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds API CHAYA ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House INC ↗
  • Who funds AFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Project Access Northwest ↗
  • Who funds Para Los Ninos de Highline ↗
  • Who funds WHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds EASTSIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Washington Academy for International Medical Gradu ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER CENTER ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationInatai FoundationUnited Way of King Co…School's Out Washingt…Gates FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Medina FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Philanthropy NorthwestThe Satterberg Founda…Renton Regional Commu…Kaiser Foundation Hea…
Seattle FoundationWA100.8× affinity80 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · United Way of King County · School's Out Washington · Gates Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Renton Regional Community Fndn · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington

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 Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Sheng-Yen Lu 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 121 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 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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