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The Chen Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$96k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$253kHuman Services$58kInternational$26kEducation$18kPhilanthropy$11kRecreation & Sports$9kHealth$2kEmployment$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $89k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Baker Senior Center Naples$40,000
Heritage Classical Academy$17,685
North Naples Baptis Church$16,000
Trinity Church$15,000
Revelation 1211$5,000
Rev Duy Jimmy Nguyen$1,585
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VOWS TO KEEP: $3k → 5%Baker Senior Center Naples: $40k → 10%BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES: $12k → 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER: $750 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$261k · 11 repeat orgs$464k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
31

Total granted

$261k
$424k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+19%

Still filing today

45%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • YN
    YESU NI BWANA INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $22k · revenue +26%
  • ND
    NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER TASK FORCE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue +15%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    2× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $333k
  • RZ
    RAVI ZACHARIAS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • ND
    NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
2
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
3
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
4
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc

The christian broadcasting network's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. cbn's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. the mission of cbn and its affiliated organizations is to…

Religion
5
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
6
Christian Veterinary Mission

Christian veterinary mission (cvm) serves to challenge, empower and facilitate veterinary professionals to serve others, living out their christian faith through long term missions, short term missions, professional ministry, affiliate…

Animals
7
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
8
Christian Medical & Dental Society

Cmda educates, encourages, and equips christian healthcare professionals to glorify god. christian healthcare professionals glorify god by following christ, serving with excellence and compassion, caring for all people, and advancing…

International
9
Christian Educational Ministries

To share the gospel of jesus christ to the world, to teach & equip the disciples of christ, to teach & train the next generation, to bring the people of god closer together using radio, social media, print literature & other audio & video…

Religion
10
Message to All Nations Man

To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost

Human Services
11
This Day Ministries Inc

The mission: as a faith-based organization, we exist to faithfully proclaim the truth of god's word for the purpose of turning church attenders into disciples of jesus that make disciples of jesus. how we accomplish the mission: a…

Religion
12
Christians for Biblical Equality

See schedule o.christians for biblical equality (cbe), www.cbeinternational.org, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, churches, colleges, seminaries, and organizations, representing more than 100 different…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $332,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTH NAPLES BAPTIST CHURCH — $57,000 · OtherNORTH NAPLES BAPTIST CHURCHTRINITY CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherTRINITY CHURCHFAITH BIBLE CHURCH — $32,000 · Other+35 more — $167,770 · Other+35 moreBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC — $52,550 · Human ServicesVOWSTOKEEP — $3,000 · Human ServicesYESU NI BWANA INC — $22,000 · InternationalTAPESTRY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL — $2,000 · InternationalThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $4,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami — $500 · EducationFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentA DOOR OF HOPE INC — $2,500 · ReligionCommunity Bible Study — $220 · Religion
Other$639,270Human Services$55,550International$24,000Education$4,500Youth Development$3,500Religion$2,720

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC — $52,550 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetYESU NI BWANA INC — $22,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER TASK FORCE — $12,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOWSTOKEEP — $3,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetA DOOR OF HOPE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAPESTRY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL — $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bible Study — $220 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC
  • Who funds YESU NI BWANA INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER TASK FORCE
  • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds VOWSTOKEEP
  • Who funds A DOOR OF HOPE INC
  • Who funds TAPESTRY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Chen Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • University of Miami5% 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 · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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