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The Hu & Luo Family Foundation at a glance

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The Hu & Luo 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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.8MInternational$998kReligion$776kEducation$127kCivil Rights$125kScience & Tech$50kHuman Services$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $192k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $560k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (DAF)$1,295,000
WORLD RELIEF CORPORATION$300,000
YOUVERSION$100,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SAN FRANCISCO$100,000
RISE UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY$60,000
STARFISH PROJECT INC$50,000
ALPHA USA$50,000
LIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL$50,000
THE VERITAS FORUM$50,000
FRIENDS OF HONG KONG CHARITIES$50,000
STRATUM FOUNDATION$50,000
CHURCH OF THE CROSS$25,000
AXIS$25,000
TOTAL INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT & EAST ASIA$25,000
INTL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST$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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE VERITAS FORUM: $50k → 16%INTL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $25k → 7%HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 9%TRANSFORMING THE BAY WITH CHRIST: $25k → 7%FOSTER THE CITY: $25k → 8%EAST BAY TRINITY CHINESE CHURCH: $10k → 9%HARBOR HOUSE MINISTRIES: $10k → 10%RISE UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY: $60k → 10%THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND: $25k → 14%CHURCH OF THE CROSS: $25k → 10%VILLAGE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 16%YOUVERSION: $100k → 16%PI: $100k → 13%COMPANION WITH THE POOR: $10k → 13%GOTTA GO CORPORATION: $5k → 17%OPERATION MOBILIZATION USA: $125k → 6%ALPHA USA: $50k → 7%EVANGELICAL STUDENTS UNION OF ETHIOPIA: $25k → 6%FRIENDS OF HONG KONG CHARITIES: $50k → 8%WORLD RELIEF CORPORATION: $300k → 19%LIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 15%THE VERITAS FORUM: $50k → 16%INTL MINISTRIES: $12k → 7%TOTAL INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT & EAST ASIA: $25k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL: $33k → 10%CHURCH OF THE CROSS: $25k → 10%VILLAGE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 16%YOUVERSION: $100k → 16%COMPANION WITH THE POOR: $8k → 13%MISSION EAST ASIAN NATIONAL: $20k → 7%EVANGELICAL STUDENTS UNION OF ETHIOPIA: $20k → 6%FRIENDS OF HONG KONG CHARITIES: $50k → 8%WORLD RELIEF CORPORATION: $300k → 19%LIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 15%INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $12k → 7%SAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL: $4k → 10%ALPHA USA: $50k → 7%EVANGELICAL STUDENTS UNION OF ETHIOPIA EVASUE ALUMNI-NORTH AMERICA: $10k → 6%WORLD RELIEF: $150k → 19%INTL MINISTRIES: $12k → 7%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SAN FRANCISCO: $100k → 10%WORLD RELIEF: $20k → 19%INTL MINISTRIES OGHS - THAILAND FLOODS: $10k → 7%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO: $100k → 10%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%STRATUM FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 10%STARFISH PROJECT INC: $50k → 10%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
IL
WI
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
OK
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 16 repeat orgs$818k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
15

Total granted

$3.8M
$463k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+16%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationInternationalPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WR
    WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $770k · revenue +134%
  • AU
    Alpha USA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +85%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HONG KONG CHARITIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • OM
    OPERATION MOBILIZATION
    one grant, 2022 · $125k
  • P
    PI
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • HOPE INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +10%
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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
3
Visionsynergy

Our mission is to accelerate the great commission by equipping leaders, developing networks, and catalyzing collaboration toward spiritual breakthroughs among the least reached peoples and places of the world.

International
4
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
5
InitiativeGlobal

To join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.

Religion
6
Josiah Venture

To equip young leaders throughout Central and Eastern Europe to fulfill Christ's commission through the local church.

Religion
7
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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8
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
9
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
10
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
11
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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12
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Transforming the Bay With Christ. 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

23 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. 23 of the 42 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE (DAF): $2,105,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (DAF)YOUVERSION INC: $200,000 · OtherYOUVERSION INCOPERATION MOBILIZATION: $125,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO: $110,000 · Other+16 more: $554,500 · Other+16 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,525,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITA…+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $770,000 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CO…HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATIO…+3 more: $35,718 · InternationalAlpha USA: $100,000 · ReligionAlpha USAFRIENDS OF HONG KONG CHARITIES INC: $100,000 · ReligionFRIENDS O…THE VERITAS FORUM INC: $100,000 · ReligionTHE VERIT…LIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 · ReligionLIFE IN A…STRATUM: $50,000 · ReligionSTRATUMTRANSFORMING THE BAY WITH CHRIST: $25,000 · Religion+3 more: $25,000 · ReligionRISE UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY: $60,000 · EducationAXIS: $50,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL: $37,000 · EducationTHORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationSERVANT PARTNERS INC: $13,550 · Public Benefit
Other$3,094,500Community Improvement$1,535,000International$855,718Religion$500,000Education$177,000Public Benefit$13,550

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,525,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $770,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAlpha USA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF HONG KONG CHARITIES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VERITAS FORUM INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRISE UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY: $60,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAXIS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATUM: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL: $37,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRANSFORMING THE BAY WITH CHRIST: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMission East Asian National Support: $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetVSI: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSERVANT PARTNERS INC: $13,550 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHarbor House Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGotta Go Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
  • Who funds Alpha USA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HONG KONG CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds RISE UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ↗
  • Who funds AXIS ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds STRATUM ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds TRANSFORMING THE BAY WITH CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Mission East Asian National Support ↗
  • Who funds VSI ↗
  • Who funds SERVANT PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
  • Who funds Harbor House Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗

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.

Henry P & Susan C Cro…First Fruit IncNatl Christian Charit…Tyndale House Ministr…The Maclellan Foundat…Christian Community F…Vanguard Charitable E…ImpactassetsincServant FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Silicon Valley Commun…
Henry P & Susan C Crowell TrustCO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry P & Susan C Crowell Trust · First Fruit Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Tyndale House Ministries · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Impactassetsinc · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community 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 Hu & Luo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hu & Luo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 42 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 camps
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By state
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