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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.

$470k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Arts & Culture$2.1MEducation$1.3MInternational$1.0MHealth$660kPhilanthropy$135kHuman Services$130kYouth Development$40kEnvironment$10k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco$150,000
Consulate General of Japan$100,000
Asia Society$100,000
Asia Society Northern California$50,000
Stanford Health Care$30,000
Korean American Music Supporters Association USA Inc$20,000
San Francisco Korean Master Chorale$20,000
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 (FY19–22, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco: $300k → 8%Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco: $25k → 7%Korean Center Incorporated: $10k → 10%Korean Center Incorporated: $10k → 10%Korean Center Incorporated: $10k → 10%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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 8 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -11% since the first grant, against -26% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$3.0M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
-26%

Still filing today

100%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
InternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO KOREAN MASTER CHORALE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +18% · 26% of their budget
  • KA
    Korean American Music Supporters Association USA Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +33% · 46% of their budget
  • KC
    KOREAN CENTER INCORPORATED
    3× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -36%
  • Vanderbilt Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +65%
  • PG
    President George Washington Middle School
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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
The Korean Library Foundation
Education
2
Korean American United Foundation
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3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
4
Unification of Korea Academic Resea

Comparative studies and research concerning the political, economic, social, and cultural barriers and ties among the usa,south korea and north korea.

Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Guzheng Music Society
Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
7
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
—
8
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
9
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
10
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
12
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asia Society Northern California; the most unlike its peers is Sutter Bay Medical 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

22 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. 22 of the 26 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
9/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1,800,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRAN…Korean American Music Supporters Association USA Inc: $100,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKEL…Vanderbilt University: $300,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $100,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTSTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $630,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA SOCIETYASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $130,000 · InternationalASIA SOCIETY NORTHER…THE ASIA FOUNDATION: $110,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA FOUNDATIONSILICON VALLEY KOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $100,000 · InternationalSILICON VALLEY KOREA…+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalKOREAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $325,000 · Human ServicesKOREAN AM…SAN FRANCISCO & BAY AREA KOREA CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesSAN FRANC…KOREAN CENTER INCORPORATED: $30,000 · Human ServicesKOREAN CE…President George Washington Middle School: $100,000 · OtherConsulate General of Japan: $100,000 · OtherWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · OtherLA KOREAN AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM: $20,000 · OtherSAN MATEO COUNTY SHERIFFS ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $40,000 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO KOREAN MASTER CHORALE: $120,000 · PhilanthropyKOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropySTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $30,000 · HealthSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$1,900,000Education$1,475,000International$972,000Human Services$455,000Other$305,000Philanthropy$220,000Health$60,000

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 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 budgetKOREAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $325,000 over 2y, 33% 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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Marin Community Found…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Network for Good
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s 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 · 0–50%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community 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.

    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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