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The Hsieh Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $484k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF HOPE$600,000
THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST$509,703
CAF AMERICA$100,000
INSTITUTE 2100 INC$100,000
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY$100,000
ASIAN AMERICAN SCHOLAR FORUM INC$100,000
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL$83,686
THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION$12,576
CALTECH$4,000
CHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA$3,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FUDAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $110k → 11%HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $100k → 14%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: $175k → 14%INSTITUTE 2100 INC: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $300k → 12%CAF AMERICA: $100k → 9%THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION: $280k → 10%HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $100k → 14%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $280k → 12%RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION: $250k → 10%HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $100k → 14%ASIAN AMERICAN SCHOLAR FORUM INC: $100k → 17%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $140k → 12%THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION: $250k → 10%NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US CHINA RELATIONS: $250k → 17%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $140k → 12%COMMITTEE OF 100: $254k → 17%HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $100k → 14%NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US CHINA RELATIONS: $250k → 17%NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US CHINA RELATIONS: $100k → 17%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - LOS ANGELES: $119k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $119k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $119k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $119k → 14%COMMITTEE OF 100: $482k → 17%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: $100k → 14%COMMITTEE OF 100: $300k → 17%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: $100k → 14%THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $510k → 14%HUDSON INSTITUTE: $110k → 14%J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $100k → 14%WOODROW WILSON CENTER: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3.0M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1.0M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $1.2M → 14%POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $100k → 14%POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $100k → 14%POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $84k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $1.0M → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $1.0M → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $600k → 14%SINO-AMERICAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $300k → 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

WI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
WV
VA
DC
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of The Hsieh Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Hsieh Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 16 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
25

Total granted

$10M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+26%

Still filing today

69%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropySocial ScienceOther
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

  • PS
    POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +72%
  • UO
    University of New Haven
    4× · 2017–2023 · $860k · revenue +42%
  • TR
    THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2022 · $780k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • FU
    FUDAN UNIV EDUCATION DEV'T FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1.4M
  • SC
    SINO-AMERICAN CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue +9% · 52% of their budget
  • FU
    FUDAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +143%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
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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4
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
10
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
11
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
12
Us - China Policy Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Committee of 100 Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sino-American Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 48 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
25/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $4,157,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $1,677,034 · EducationPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOLUniversity of New Haven: $860,000 · EducationUniversity of New HavenUCLA FOUNDATION: $350,000 · Education+5 more: $324,000 · EducationCITY OF HOPE: $2,600,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEFUDAN UNIV EDUCATION DEV'T FOUNDATION: $1,430,600 · OtherFUDAN UNIV EDUCATION DEV'T FOUNDATIONTHE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION: $780,000 · OtherTHE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATIONNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: $767,258 · OtherNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING+20 more: $725,465 · Other+20 moreCOMMITTEE OF 100 INC: $1,076,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMITTEE …HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $400,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HU…+5 more: $88,986 · Arts & Culture+5 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $475,000 · HealthSINO-AMERICAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $609,703 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $100,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $607,001 · InternationalCHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INCORPORATED: $28,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE 2100 INC: $100,000 · Civil Rights
Education$7,368,034Other$6,303,323Arts & Culture$1,564,986Health$776,000Philanthropy$709,703International$635,001Civil Rights$100,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $4,157,000 over 5y, 0.1% of 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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…California Community …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • National Academy of Inventors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–15%
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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home