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The Chin Family Foundation at a glance

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The Chin Family Foundation

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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$750k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$4.1MEducation$1.9MEnvironment$292kInternational$205kHuman Services$56kAnimals$44kArts & Culture$41kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $177k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL INC$750,000
DENISON UNIVERSITY$750,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$500,000
ABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC$75,000
TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$52,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD PASADENA AND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY$50,000
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$20,000
GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION$20,000
LISTEN LEBANON IN SERVICE TO EACH NEIGHBOR$5,000
UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC$5,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION$5,000
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS$5,000
NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY$1,000
LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATI$1,000
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 (FY18–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LISTEN LEBANON IN SERVICE TO EACH NEIGHBOR: $10k → 10%LISTEN LEBANON IN SERVICE TO EACH NEIGHBOR: $5k → 10%LISTEN LEBANON IN SERVICE TO EACH NEIGHBOR: $5k → 10%LISTEN LEBANON IN SERVICE TO EACH NEIGHBOR: $2k → 10%LISTEN LEBANON IN SERVICE TO EACH NEIGHBOR: $2k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES: $1k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES: $3k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
CT
RI
CA
MD
AR
DC
MS
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 23 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
20

Total granted

$5.6M
$548k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+30%

Still filing today

83%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $559k 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
EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +20%
  • AK
    ABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $285k · revenue +77%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    2× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • VD
    VILLA DE VIDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $400k · revenue +30% · 62% of their budget
  • OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +100%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
9
University of Redlands

We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.

Education
10
Manhattanville University

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

Education
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Legal Education Foundation. 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

39 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. 39 of the 48 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
31/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $3,500,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED+24 more: $172,750 · OtherDENISON UNIVERSITY: $1,206,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPP…OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Education+10 more: $136,000 · Education+10 moreVILLA DE VIDA INC: $400,000 · Housing & ShelterABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $285,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $200,000 · InternationalPlanned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc: $85,500 · HealthGood Neighbor Health Clinic Inc: $21,000 · HealthCONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY: $13,950 · HealthGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $41,000 · AnimalsROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC: $2,500 · Animals+2 more: $500 · Animals
Other$3,672,750Education$1,942,000Housing & Shelter$400,000Philanthropy$285,000International$200,000Health$120,450Animals$44,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $1,206,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVILLA DE VIDA INC: $400,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $285,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc: $85,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $52,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $41,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor: $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGood Neighbor Health Clinic Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRhode Island Legal Education Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetUPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL: $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY: $13,950 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAcacia Fraternity Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTLAND STORM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNORTHERN STAGE COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRENSSELAER ACACIA CORP - WILLIAM JAMESON: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $100 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.

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.

Pasadena Community Fo…New Hampshire Charita…Hypertherm Hope Found…Emily Landecker Found…The Scripps Family Fu…The Couch Family Foun…Mascoma Bank Foundati…The Vermont Community…California Community …National Philanthropi…The San Francisco Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Pasadena Community FoundationCA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Couch Family Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Chin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Sea Research Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Northern Stage Company: 5% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Waldorf School: 4% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home