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Spring Chen 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.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$8kRecreation & Sports$2kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$1kEducation$1kPublic Benefit$1kHuman Services$970Arts & Culture$800Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$300
Median grant
2
States reached
$55k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lucil Packard Children Hospital$500
Special Olympic NC$300
Northern California Taiwanese Community Care Network of San Jose$300
Stanford Medicine$300
Alzheimers Association$300
The Salvation Army Golden Gate$200
Wounded Warrior Project$120
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $370) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $120 → 14%Wounded Worrior Project: $100 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $100 → 14%Wounded Worrior Project: $50 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8k · 7 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$8k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+550%

Still filing today

29%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyPublic BenefitHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LP
    Lucil Packard Children Hospital
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3k
  • SO
    Special Olympic NC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2k
  • CR
    Cupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • CB
    Chicago Booth The Annual Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • T
    TCCNAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +104%
  • F
    FTBCNC
    one grant, 2022 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American College of Radiology

The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…

Health
2
Association for Computing Machinery Inc

We are an intl. scientific & educational org. dedicated to advancing art, science & technology.

Science & Tech
3
Rotary International Club Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Wt Stanford Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
Saint John's Cancer Institute

To support research and development of, and education in, the basic and clinical sciences for the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.

Health
10
Points of Light Foundation

Points of light's mission is to inspire, equip and mobilize people to create positive change through volunteering and civic engagement. we envision a world in which everyone discovers the power to make a difference, creating healthy…

Philanthropy
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
12
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International and the most unlike its peers is Miracle Ministry in Jesus Christ. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Lucil Packard Children Hospital — $2,500 · OtherLucil Packard Children HospitalSpecial Olympic NC — $1,800 · OtherSpecial Olympic NCChicago Booth The Annual Fund — $1,000 · OtherChicago Booth The Annual FundAlzheimer's Association — $600 · OtherAlzheimer's AssociationAlzheimer Association — $600 · OtherAlzheimer AssociationAmerican Cancer Society — $600 · OtherAmerican Cancer SocietyFTBCNC — $500 · OtherLucial Packard Children's Hospital — $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $500 · Other+7 more — $1,850 · Other+7 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,500 · EducationTHE BOARD …THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $1,400 · InternationalTHE ROTAR…Cupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation — $1,295 · PhilanthropyTCCNA — $1,000 · Public BenefitMIRACLE MINISTRY IN JESUS CHRIST — $500 · ReligionWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $370 · Human Services
Other$10,450Education$1,500International$1,400Philanthropy$1,295Public Benefit$1,000Religion$500Human Services$370

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation — $1,295 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTCCNA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIRACLE MINISTRY IN JESUS CHRIST — $500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $370 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUM — $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds Cupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation
  • Who funds TCCNA
  • Who funds MIRACLE MINISTRY IN JESUS CHRIST
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds PALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUM
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Spring Chen Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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