· Private foundation
The Eugene and Lai Wong Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO | $102,486 |
| RENO PHILHARMONIC | $10,000 |
| E2 VEGAS | $9,500 |
| NEW HORIZONS | $5,000 |
| EPIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL GREEN VALLEY | $5,000 |
| CATALINA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MT ROSE SKI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL 2 TOWERS | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| THE HAYEK GROUP | $1,000 |
| LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $500 |
| LAYMAN'S FOUNDATION | $500 |
| POP'S FOUNDATION | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 8 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AARTOWN2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +6%
- HFHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC2× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +291%
- PFPOPS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +18%
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +7%- TGThe Generator Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +54%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds E2 VEGAS ↗
- Who funds THAT DAY ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTOWN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds POPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Generator Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HAYEK GROUP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Eugene and Lai Wong Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eugene and Lai Wong Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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