· Private foundation
The Chu Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $430k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USO | $120,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GR ATL | $110,000 |
| SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FDN | $25,000 |
| AMERICA KOREA UNITED SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| THE KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOOL OF ATLANTA | $10,000 |
| WALDEN SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| HEALTH ONE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
| GEORGIA VETERANS DAY ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN KOREAN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| KOREAN COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 74% of grant dollars ($2.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 26% that went abroad ($780k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 26% of all-years giving ($780k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
DUKE UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +27%- KAKOREAN AMERICAN SCHOOL OF ATLANTA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +55%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- KAKOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GR Aone grant, 2023 · $202k
- TKTHE KOREAN ASSOC OF THE GREATER ATLone grant, 2022 · $201k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINone grant, 2019 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Comparative studies and research concerning the political, economic, social, and cultural barriers and ties among the usa,south korea and north korea.
To enhance the mutual relationship & corporation between korean schools in america to help improve quality of korean language and culture education & expand the base thereof. to help promte pride of descendants of koreans & establish…
We advocate for the rights of Korean-american and promote the well-being and prosperity of the Korean-American community. We conduct activities to promote unity and fellowship, community participation, provide educational and social…
Our mission is to provide an encouraging environment to learn, discover and experience the korean language and its rich culture.
Teaching korean language and korean culture
Education of student with korean language, history, and culture to promote cultural understanding and diversity
Social and cultual barriers and ties among the u.s., the republic of south korea and north korea,for the purpose of educating, promoting, understanding and disseminating information to academic institutions and the general public…
Kfs serves to build a community to promote the development of global korean finance professionals through networking, education and mentorship - to empower members to give back to the community
Contribute to the social welfare and the industrial development in the usa and korea through the promotion of science and engineering. promote cooperation between the usa and korea in science and engineering.
Educating korean language, history and culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Korean American Cultural Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Daybreak University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Daybreak University ↗
- Who funds AMERICA KOREA UNITED SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOOL OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Society for Antiviral Research ↗
- Who funds THE WALDEN SCHOOL OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Center for Pan Asian Community Services ↗
- Who funds Idaho State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Veterans Day Associati ↗
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds American Korean Friendship Society Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation 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 Chu Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.