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The Future Wanxiang Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Future Wanxiang Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.4MEducation$624kInternational$550kCommunity Improvement$549kSocial Science$470kPublic Benefit$246kArts & Culture$174kEnvironment$136kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $898k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$100,000
HOPE CHICAGO$100,000
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US-CHINA RELATIONS$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$100,000
WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO$100,000
MAX BAUCUS INSTITUTE$75,000
CHINA INSTITUTE$65,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$58,498
THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS$50,000
CGCC FOUNDATION$50,000
INTERSECT ILLINOIS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$25,000
THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN: $50k → 14%MAX BAUCUS INSTITUTE: $75k → 9%University of Pittsburgh: $85k → 11%CGCC FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%GUARANTEE OUR VOTES: $30k → 12%RAND CORPORATION: $30k → 14%CHINA INSTITUTE: $65k → 17%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $58k → 12%BRIGHTMOOR CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $90k → 8%AAPI FORWARD NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%ADVANCE AMERICAN FREEDOM: $50k → 16%ASIAN HALL OF FAME: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $100k → 19%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50k → 7%MAX BAUCUS INSTITUTE: $75k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $85k → 11%Rand Corporation: $30k → 14%CHINA INSTITUTE: $65k → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 7%Rand Corp: $30k → 14%China Institute: $35k → 17%ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONGRESSIONAL STUDIES: $135k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 7%Asia Society: $25k → 17%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 17%National Committee of US China Relations: $100k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 14%National Committee of US China Relations: $100k → 17%NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US-CHINA RELATIONS: $100k → 17%Northwestern University: $550k → 14%NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US-CHINA RELATIONS: $100k → 17%NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US-CHINA RELATIONS: $100k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $550k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%Northwestern University: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $100k → 14%INTERSECT ILLINOIS: $50k → 14%NORTHWESTERN (SCHAPIRO & LANNY): $450k → 14%WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $100k → 14%WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $100k → 14%HOPE CHICAGO: $100k → 14%WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $85k → 14%World Business Chicago: $85k → 14%THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $75k → 14%THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $75k → 14%THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $50k → 14%World Business Chicago: $35k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
IA
IN
PA
CA
MO
KY
VA
DC
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 20 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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21

Total granted

$4.5M
$913k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-1%

Still filing today

75%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $494k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • Northwestern University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +33%
  • WB
    WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $405k · revenue +58%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $450k
  • AP
    Asian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional
    one grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue -17%
  • BC
    BRIGHTMOOR CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $90k
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.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
3
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
4
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
5
Council of Institutional Investors

Educate/advocate for effective corporate governance and public company disclosure, strong shareholder rights and fair capital markets.

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6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
9
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Us China Business Council

The united states china business council's primary purpose is to represent american companies that do business in china and expand the us-china commercial relationship to the benefit of its membership and the us economy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Council On Global Affairs; the most unlike its peers is Us - China Policy 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

34 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. 34 of the 54 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)
34/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northwestern University: $2,425,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University+1 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsIndividual grant recipient: $450,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNational Committee of US China Relations: $200,000 · OtherNational Committee of US China Re…CHINA INSTITUTE: $180,000 · OtherCHINA INSTITUTETHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $125,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISHOPE CHICAGO INC: $100,000 · OtherHOPE CHICAGO INCBRIGHTMOOR CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $90,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $60,000 · OtherThe Rand Corporation: $90,000 · Other+22 more: $395,500 · Other+22 moreNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $300,000 · InternationalNATIONAL C…THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $225,000 · InternationalTHE CHICAG…THE ASIA SOCIETY: $25,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $405,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD BUS…ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D: $50,000 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS …City Club of Chicago: $40,000 · Community ImprovementCity Club…+1 more: $11,742 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $170,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $100,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $94,450 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $50,000 · Education+4 more: $14,800 · EducationMAX S BAUCUS INSTITUTE: $165,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $58,498 · PhilanthropyCGCC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyAsian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional: $135,000 · Civil Rights
Recreation & Sports$2,427,000Other$1,790,500International$560,000Community Improvement$506,742Education$429,250Philanthropy$275,498Civil Rights$135,000

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 budgetNorthwestern University: $2,425,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $405,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $225,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $170,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAX S BAUCUS INSTITUTE: $165,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAsian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional: $135,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $94,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $58,498 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Club of Chicago: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINA GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - USA: $11,742 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCARING ATHLETES TEAM FOR CHILDREN'S AND HENRY FORD HOSPITALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation AZKEF: $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetUS - CHINA POLICY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetELGIN ACADEMY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPENLANDS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Economic Club of Chicago: $3,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetXILIN ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPIC SOLUTIONS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontefiore Health System Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Starr FoundationNational Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Starr FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Starr Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Future Wanxiang Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Future Wanxiang Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Future Wanxiang Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Future Wanxiang Foundation Inc 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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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