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The Elizabeth and Frank Chau Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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
1
States reached
$5k
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 2020.

Health$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kArts & Culture$5kScience & Tech$4kRecreation & Sports$3kHuman Services$1k
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$54k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW COMMUNITY CINEMA CLUB INC$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS IN GREATER NEW YORK$3,000
NORTH SHORE HOLIDAY HOUSE INC$2,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY$1,000
THE SAFE CENTER LI INC$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%THE SAFE CENTER LI INC: $1k → 6%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31k · 5 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +82% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$31k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+82%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHuman ServicesScience & TechOther
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

  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +17%
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE HOLIDAY HOUSE INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +100%
  • Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory
    2× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • TD
    The Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -38%
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +82%
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
Northwell Health Cancer Institute Inc

Northwell health cancer institute is part of northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
3
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
4
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
5
Central Suffolk Hospital

Central suffolk hospital ("csh") d/b/a peconic bay medical center ("pbmc") is a not-for-profit hospital consisting of acute health care, a skilled nursing facility and a certified home care agency. csh provides a full range of health care…

Health
6
Glen Cove Hospital

Glen cove hospital is part of northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality geriatric care; educating the current and future…

Health
7
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
8
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
9
John T Mather Memorial Hospital

John t. mather memorial hospital ("mather") is a non-profit community hospital that is part of northwell health. mather strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical…

Health
10
Northern Westchester Hospital Association

Northern westchester hospital association is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care;…

Health
11
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
12
Plainview Hospital

Plainview hospital is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; the most unlike its peers is Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS IN GREATER NEW YORK: $11,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS IN GREATER NEW YORKNew Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre: $5,000 · OtherNew Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts CentreThe Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation Inc: $2,000 · OtherThe Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation IncMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,750 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER+1 more: $500 · OtherNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $13,500 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,500 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERNORTH SHORE HOLIDAY HOUSE INC: $2,750 · Recreation & SportsCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $2,000 · Science & TechMary Miss - City as Living Laboratory: $1,500 · Arts & CultureThe Safe Center LI Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesPINK AID INC: $500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF TJ FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$20,250Health$15,000Recreation & Sports$2,750Science & Tech$2,000Arts & Culture$1,500Human Services$1,000Philanthropy$1,000

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 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
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.

The Judith C White Fo…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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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