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Tan Family Education Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$502k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.0MEducation$1.5MHealth$403kRecreation & Sports$330kPhilanthropy$210kCrime & Legal$180kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $450k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$100,000
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$100,000
MEDSTAR GEORGE TOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$50,000
OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MERCED$11,500
ASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY AT STAMFORD UNIVERSITY$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $100k → 16%WU WEI HARMONY FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSE: $90k → 14%CHINESE AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $45k → 17%MEDSTAR GEORGE TOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $50k → 19%EDUCATION AND SCIENCE SOCIETY INC: $50k → 6%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSE: $90k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $40k → 19%EDUCATION AND SCIENCE SOCIETY INC: $47k → 6%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSE: $90k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $40k → 19%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSE: $60k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $40k → 19%NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSE: $60k → 14%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $48k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSE: $60k → 14%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSE: $60k → 14%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $43k → 10%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $38k → 10%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $80k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $80k → 10%NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $80k → 16%ASIAN ARTS MUSEUM SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $80k → 16%ASIAN ARTS MUSEUM SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $60k → 16%NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $60k → 16%NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $60k → 16%NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $50k → 16%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
VA
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 17 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
3

Total granted

$4.6M
$7k

Still filing today

41%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $792k · revenue +189%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $670k · revenue +24%
  • WW
    WU WEI HARMONY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $210k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO CHINESE HISTORICAL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • CM
    CLAREMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Foundation of America (Sjtufa)
Education
2
Hua Xia Education Foundation
Education
3
California University - Silicon Valley

Providing professional training of Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture, Chinese herbology, acupressure, Qigong and so on, granting the students Masters degree. Its a three to four years teaching program.

Education
4
Foundation for Chinese Cultural Heritage
Philanthropy
5
The National Cheng Kung University North America Alumni Foudation Inc

1) Promote the welfare and friendship of the members, to publicize their achievements, and to assist them in social and cultural activities. 2) Support our alma mater to promote major projects, to cultivate and recruit outstanding faculty,…

Education
6
San Francisco Guzheng Music Society
Arts & Culture
7
Center for Advanced China Research
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8
Yunguang Chan Center

Religious culture and education, meditation and religions comparative study

Education
9
Xiamen University Education Foundation of N Americ
Education
10
Harvard College Association Forus-China Relations

HAUSCR seeks to promote the exchange of ideas and opportunities between students at Harvard University and in China, through a series of cross-cultural exchange programs it organizes each year. HAUSCR seeks to enrich the education of the…

International
11
The United China Education Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
12
University of Science and Technology of China Alumni Foundation

Promote the excellence of members of USTC and helping the students with finacial needs. Promote the academic and cultural exchange between USTC and researchers and students in USA Raising donations from alumni and elsewhere. Present…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Hill Center for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wu Wei Harmony Foundation. 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 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. 8 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $900,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONUNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSE: $540,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSEUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $290,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISUNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $202,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MEDICINEEducation and Science Society Inc: $201,250 · OtherEducation and Science Society IncABA FUND FOR JUSTICE & EDUCATION: $180,000 · OtherABA FUND FOR JUSTICE & EDUCATIONASIAN ARTS MUSEUM SAN FRANCISCO: $140,000 · Other+9 more: $212,500 · Other+9 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $791,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOU…NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $670,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSICWALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $80,000 · EducationWU WEI HARMONY FOUNDATION: $210,000 · PhilanthropyCHINESE AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $150,000 · HealthTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthSHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $55,750 · International
Other$2,666,250Education$1,541,500Philanthropy$210,000Health$200,000International$55,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $791,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $670,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWU WEI HARMONY FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetEducation and Science Society Inc: $201,250 over 8y, 25% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $150,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetWALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $55,750 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds WU WEI HARMONY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Education and Science Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Tan Family Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tan Family Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of 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 · 0–5%
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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How do I get to Tan Family Education Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tan Family Education 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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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