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The FY Chang 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$150
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations The FY Chang Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23
EducationInternationalHealthEnvironmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving5$5k80%
FY20237$19k43%
FY20225$14k80%
FY20214$12k50%
FY201911$65k73%
FY20188$23k75%
FY201710$103kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$170kArts & Culture$21kInternational$18kHealth$8kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$2kSocial Science$1kPublic Benefit$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($199k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The FY Chang Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCouncil of American Ambassadors: $7,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUllico Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWashington Ireland Program for Service & Leadership: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForeign Policy Association Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBnai Zion Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $1,565 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fund for American Studies: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Leadership Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZenith Community Arts Foundation: $500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Academy of Diplomacy: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeridian International Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bush Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDacor Bacon House Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGettysburg College: $30 over 1y, 0.0% 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 17.

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.

Cobb Family Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cobb Family Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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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How do I get to The FY Chang Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The FY Chang Foundation 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.

About The FY Chang Foundation

How much does The FY Chang Foundation give?
The FY Chang Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $5,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The FY Chang Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (69%), Arts & Culture (8%), International (7%).
Who are The FY Chang Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Council of American Ambassadors ($7k), Ullico Foundation ($6k), Washington Ireland Program for Service & Leadership ($5k).
Does The FY Chang Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The FY Chang 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 FY Chang Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cobb Family Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The FY Chang Foundation based?
The FY Chang Foundation is based in DC.

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 38 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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