· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| CHOC CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TZU CHI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE 109TH PRECINCT COMMUNITY COUNCI | $5,000 |
| ASIAN YOUTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 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 SAN GABRIEL VALLEY FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds 109TH PRECINCT COMMUNITY COUNCIL 112417336 ↗
- Who funds THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NAMI SAN GABRIEL VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds EASTVALE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Irvine Police Association ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tawa Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tawa Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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