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The Hsieh Family 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$600,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$7.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations The Hsieh Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationSocial ScienceScience & TechYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving9$1.5M44%
FY202312$1.8M42%
FY202212$3.3M33%
FY20219$465k44%
FY202013$2.7M38%
FY201911$763k64%
FY201810$893k60%
FY201710$1.4Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$7.5MHealth$3.8MCivil Rights$1.2MArts & Culture$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MScience & Tech$921kPublic Benefit$780kInternational$735kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
WV
VA
DC
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.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Hsieh Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPolytechnic School: $1,677,034 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCommittee of 100 Inc: $1,076,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $860,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Richard Nixon Foundation: $780,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetThe J Paul Getty Trust: $609,703 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Committee on United States -China Relations Inc: $607,001 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $475,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHenry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSino-American Cancer Foundation: $300,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetFudan University Education Development Foundation: $110,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $110,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWest Virginia University Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute 2100 Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAsian American Scholar Forum Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Academy of Inventors Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetChina Institute in America Incorporated: $28,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Los Angeles Area Council Boy Scouts of America: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCharles W Bowers Museum Corporation: $15,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Royal Oak Foundation Inc: $12,576 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIeee Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Caltech Y: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWalking Strong Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLos Angeles Philharmonic Association: $910 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 25.

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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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · 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.

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About The Hsieh Family Foundation

How much does The Hsieh Family Foundation give?
The Hsieh Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,612,965 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Hsieh Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (22%), Civil Rights (7%).
Who are The Hsieh Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Polytechnic School ($1.7M), Committee of 100 Inc ($1.1M), University of New Haven ($860k).
Does The Hsieh Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hsieh 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 Hsieh Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, California Community Foundation.
Where is The Hsieh Family Foundation based?
The Hsieh Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 48 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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