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The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Supports causes that promote cross-cultural understanding between asia and the u.s. With specific emphasis on art, education, social and youth programs, and activities.

$470k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$470k29%
FY202310$520k50%
FY20228$1.2M38%
FY20219$332k33%
FY20204$650k25%
FY20197$365k43%
FY20185$140k20%
FY20175$1.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.1MEducation$1.3MInternational$1.0MHealth$660kPhilanthropy$135kHuman Services$130kYouth Development$40kEnvironment$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco$1,800,00084%
University of California Berkeley Foundation$1,000,00010%
The Asia Society$630,00080%
Vanderbilt University$300,00010%
Asia Society Northern California$130,00034%
San Francisco Korean Master Chorale$120,000626%
The Asia Foundation$110,00030%
California College of the Arts$100,00010%
Consulate General of Japan$100,0001n/a
San Francisco & Bay Area Korea Center$100,00017%
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All grantees of The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco$1,800,00084%
University of California Berkeley Foundation$1,000,00010%
The Asia Society$630,00080%
Vanderbilt University$300,00010%
Asia Society Northern California$130,00034%
San Francisco Korean Master Chorale$120,000626%
The Asia Foundation$110,00030%
California College of the Arts$100,00010%
Consulate General of Japan$100,0001n/a
San Francisco & Bay Area Korea Center$100,00017%
Silicon Valley Korean American Federation$100,000150%
Korean American Music Supporters Association USA Inc$100,000546%
San Mateo County Sheriffs Activities League$40,00041%
Stanford Health Care$30,00010%
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation$30,00010%
Korean Center Incorporated$30,00034%
Windmill School Inc$25,0001n/a
World Affairs Council of Northern California$25,00011%
La Korean American History Museum$20,0001n/a
Northern California Jabi Charity Association Inc$10,0001n/a
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum$10,00010%
The American Himalayan Foundation$2,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAsian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco: $1,800,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetUniversity of California Berkeley Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Asia Society: $630,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetVanderbilt University: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsia Society Northern California: $130,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSan Francisco Korean Master Chorale: $120,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetThe Asia Foundation: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia College of the Arts: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco & Bay Area Korea Center: $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Korean American Federation: $100,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetKorean American Music Supporters Association USA Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetSan Mateo County Sheriffs Activities League: $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetStanford Health Care: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSutter Bay Medical Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKorean Center Incorporated: $30,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Northern California: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSan Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation: $2,000 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 18.

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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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY15.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good

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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About The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation

How much does The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation give?
The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $470,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Education (24%), International (19%).
Who are The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco ($1.8M), University of California Berkeley Foundation ($1.0M), The Asia Society ($630k).
Does The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Marin Community Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation based?
The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community 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 26 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 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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