California · Private foundation
Susie and Gideon Yu 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.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $3.5M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $2.2M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $1.9M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $655k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $1.0M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $2.1M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $1.8M | 64% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $200k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $5,900,000 | 6 | 1% |
| California Institute of Technology | $1,250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Oakwood School | $1,037,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Stanford Health Care | $1,000,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Council of Korean Americans Inc | $600,000 | 7 | 45% |
| Tipping Point Community | $500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $450,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University School of Nashville | $400,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Society for Science & the Public | $320,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($650k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation
- How much does Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation give?
- Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $3,625,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (42%), Education (14%), Health (11%).
- Who are Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation ($5.9M), California Institute of Technology ($1.3M), Oakwood School ($1.0M).
- Does Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation based?
- Susie and Gideon Yu Foundation is based in CA.
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