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The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust

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.

$236k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$137kHealth$115kArts & Culture$93kYouth Development$52kHuman Services$20kReligion$9kCivil Rights$5kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$50,000
REDEEMER COUNSELING SERVICES$50,000
APEX FOR YOUTH$31,500
NEW YORK CLASSICAL PLAYERS$20,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$12,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES$10,000
JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE$9,850
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$9,000
RENAISSANCE CHURCH$7,500
NY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION$5,000
CHAPLIN SCHOOL$5,000
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION$5,000
WINDMILL SCHOOL$3,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$291k · 11 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$291k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
0%

Still filing today

64%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementReligionAnimalsCivil RightsOther
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

  • AF
    APEX FOR YOUTH INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $52k · revenue +11%
  • FU
    Fordham University
    2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +9%
  • TC
    THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • FH
    FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • TA
    THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue -81%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2025 · $5k
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
5
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Apex for Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blanton-Peale Institute. 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

14 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. 14 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
4/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REDEEMER COUNSELING SERVICES: $93,000 · OtherREDEEMER COUNSELING SERVICESMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $15,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGJESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USA: $14,850 · OtherJESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USARENAISSANCE CHURCH INC: $9,000 · OtherRENAISSANCE CHURCH INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $4,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND…Fordham University: $12,000 · EducationFordham UniversityTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $7,500 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTDUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $4,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK CLASSICAL PLAYERS INC: $82,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW YORK CLASSICAL P…FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELV…APEX FOR YOUTH INC: $51,500 · Community ImprovementAPEX FOR YOUT…THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Civil RightsNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE: $2,000 · ReligionTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 · Animals
Other$140,850Education$133,500Arts & Culture$92,500Community Improvement$51,500Civil Rights$5,000Human Services$5,000Religion$2,000Animals$1,000

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK CLASSICAL PLAYERS INC: $82,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetAPEX FOR YOUTH INC: $51,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFordham University: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 21 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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