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Shieh Family 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.

$173k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$109k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Religion$272kCommunity Improvement$33kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$8kEducation$7kAnimals$7kEnvironment$5kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $109k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY LIGHT CHURCH INC$109,168
THOUSAND SUNS PROJECT INC$33,000
HOMEWORD$10,000
OC PLAYERS LEAGUE$8,000
DEFY VENTURES INC$3,000
OPERATION BE KIND$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
A21 USA INC$2,000
MARINERS CHURCH$1,835
CHRISTIAN ACADEMY SCHOOL SYSTEM$500
GMF SCHOOL$400
INSTARAISE FUNDRAISING$259
RSM CHRISTIANSCHOOL$250
SHOOLFUNDERORG$150
HOMECAMPUS PORTALA$106
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A21 USA INC: $2k → 10%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

MN
NY
NV
CT
CA
KY
MD
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$267k · 3 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$267k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-5%

Still filing today

33%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHealthEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CL
    CITY LIGHT CHURCH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $260k
  • DV
    DEFY VENTURES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +15%
  • CA
    CHRISTIAN ACADEMY SCHOOL SYSTEM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $700

Funded once

  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -5%
  • LR
    LV RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • II
    IS IT CLEAN
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY LIGHT CHURCH INC: $259,948 · OtherCITY LIGHT CHURCH INC+10 more: $17,700 · Other+10 moreONE THOUSAND SUNS PROJECT INC: $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentONE THOUSAND …HOMEWORD: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEWORDBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthOC PLAYERS LEAGUE: $8,000 · Recreation & SportsDEFY VENTURES INC: $6,000 · EducationOPERATION BE KIND: $2,500 · PhilanthropyA21 USA INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$277,648Youth Development$43,000Health$10,000Recreation & Sports$8,000Education$6,000Philanthropy$2,500Human Services$2,000

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 budgetONE THOUSAND SUNS PROJECT INC: $33,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetHOMEWORD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOC PLAYERS LEAGUE: $8,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BE KIND: $2,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetA21 USA INC: $2,000 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.

  • Who funds ONE THOUSAND SUNS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWORD ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds OC PLAYERS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION BE KIND ↗
  • Who funds A21 USA INC ↗

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 Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · 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 Shieh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shieh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 18 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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