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The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
6
Organizations funded FY2020
33%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$54k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 33% of the organizations The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Science & TechHealthHuman ServicesOther
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
FY20206$13k33%
FY20195$11k40%
FY20182$8k0%
FY20179$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kArts & Culture$5kScience & Tech$4kRecreation & Sports$3kHuman Services$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Shore Holiday House Inc: $2,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCold Spring Harbor Laboratory: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMary Miss - City as Living Laboratory: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Safe Center LI Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPink Aid Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Tj Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetElisabeth R Woods Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 4.1% 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 11.

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.

The Judith C White Foundation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Judith C White Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation

How much does The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation give?
The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $13,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Health (47%), Public Safety & Disaster (25%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Northwell Health Foundation ($14k), New Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre ($5k), North Shore Holiday House Inc ($3k).
Does The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Judith C White Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation based?
The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 13 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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