· Private foundation
Tawa Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $10,000 |
| TZU CHI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| CHOC CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| THE 109TH PRECINCT COMMUNITY COUNCI | $5,000 |
| ASIAN YOUTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE | $5,000 |
| THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLAN | $4,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| OC PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS EVENT | $2,000 |
| BUENA PARK POLICE ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +38%
- CFCHOC FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +20%
- AYASIAN YOUTH CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- FAFEEDING AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $20k
- CSCAA STOP AAPI HATEone grant, 2021 · $15k
- 2S2021 SCA CHINESE SCHOOL-SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2021 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
To improve the general well-being and education of the asian, pacific islander and other ethnic communities of san diego county. upac recognizes the diverse ethnic and cultural identities and strengths of these communities and their need…
Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.
To distribute food to alleviate hunger, provide emergency food services during a natural disaster, and conduct educational awareness programs relating to hunger issues in monterey county.
To enhance the health, wellness, and resilience of every community we serve - see schedule o for more details
California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…
Feeding the foothills mission is to sustain communities by nourishing families experiencing food insecurity, educating the community about hunger, while advocating for hunger relief.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Gabriel Valley Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Nami San Gabriel Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds BUENA PARK POLICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds 109TH PRECINCT COMMUNITY COUNCIL 112417336 ↗
- Who funds SAN GABRIEL VALLEY FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI SAN GABRIEL VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EASTVALE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Irvine Police Association ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Tawa Charitable 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.
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.