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Tchang Family 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.

$370k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$220,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Tchang Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$270k13%
FY20246$58k17%
FY20238$88k0%
FY20229$64k33%
FY20219$64k33%
FY20204$41k50%
FY201910$164k40%
FY20186$130k17%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.7MCrime & Legal$110kPhilanthropy$50kInternational$44kSocial Science$40kHealth$17kHuman Services$15kPublic Benefit$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
VA
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Virginia Medical School Foundation$460,00072%
Francis Parker School$119,66740%
Voices for Children$109,56481%
Pitzer College$100,00040%
Veahavta$49,00056%
Naiop San Diego Foundation$12,50032%
St Pauls Lutheran Church$12,0005n/a
La Jolla Presbyterian Church$10,0002n/a
Stand With Me$5,0001n/a
Focusing Philanthropy Inc$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of Tchang Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Virginia Medical School Foundation$460,00072%
Francis Parker School$119,66740%
Voices for Children$109,56481%
Pitzer College$100,00040%
Veahavta$49,00056%
Naiop San Diego Foundation$12,50032%
St Pauls Lutheran Church$12,0005n/a
La Jolla Presbyterian Church$10,0002n/a
Stand With Me$5,0001n/a
Focusing Philanthropy Inc$5,0001n/a
University of Hawaii Foundation$5,00010%
Century Club of San Diego$5,00010%
Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank$5,00010%
The Big Table$5,00010%
Helpusadoptorg Inc$2,50010%
Mammoth Lakes Foundation$2,00020%
The New Childrens Museum$1,00020%
Project Concern International$1,00010%
Soroptimist International of the Americas Inc$50010%
Anglican Church in North America$5001n/a
The Flag Foundation$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($103k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tchang Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University of Virginia Medical School Foundation: $460,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetFrancis Parker School: $119,667 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVoices for Children: $109,564 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPitzer College: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVeahavta: $49,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetNaiop San Diego Foundation: $12,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentury Club of San Diego: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Big Table: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHelpusadoptorg Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMammoth Lakes Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe New Childrens Museum: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Concern International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoroptimist International of the Americas Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Flag Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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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.

The San Diego FoundationCA16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Tchang Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tchang Family 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.

About Tchang Family Foundation

How much does Tchang Family Foundation give?
Tchang Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $370,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Tchang Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (85%), Crime & Legal (5%), Philanthropy (2%).
Who are Tchang Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The University of Virginia Medical School Foundation ($460k), Francis Parker School ($120k), Voices for Children ($110k).
Does Tchang Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tchang Family 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 Tchang Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Tchang Family Foundation based?
Tchang Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 29 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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