· Private foundation
Sunny and Ming Yang Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NE | $1,000 |
| San Francisco Boys Chorus | $400 |
| VFW | $400 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $250 |
| Leukemia Lymphoma Society | $200 |
| SHIN-SHIN FOUNDATION | $200 |
| American Cancer Society | $200 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University7× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +104%
- SFSan Francisco Boys Chorus2× · 2023–2025 · $800 · revenue +19%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2018–2023 · $500 · revenue +32%
Funded once
- MCMARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +18%
- SHStanford Hospitalone grant, 2023 · $500
- KDKATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +14%
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.
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.
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
New century chamber orchestra, a virtuoso, conductorless string ensemble founded in 1992, presents performances of extraordinary quality in the san francisco bay area with a commitment to innovation, education, and accessibility.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Educate chorus members and perform concerts
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Friends of Children with Special Needs ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Boys Chorus ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Girls Chorus Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sunny and Ming Yang Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunny and Ming Yang Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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