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The Hwang Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$519kHealth$84kInternational$66kFood & Nutrition$50kEducation$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kYouth Development$1k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHINESE GOSPEL CHURCH$20,000
7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGES$20,000
REALITY CHURCH OF LOS ANGELES$10,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$8,000
MARYLAND GOSPEL CHURCH$7,500
BLESSINGS FOUNDATION INC$5,000
BCM INTERNATIONAL INC$5,000
MARYLAND GOSPEL CHURCH$4,000
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INTERNATIONAL INC$3,000
PIONEERS$3,000
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC$3,000
MANNA FOOD CENTER INC$2,500
MID-ATLANTIC CHINESE CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE INC$2,500
SON SPOT MINISTRIES INCORPORATED$2,500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC: $6k → 9%GO AND LOVE FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%FRIENDS OF GRACE: $10k → 10%GALILEE INTERNATIONAL US: $15k → 10%REALITY CHURCH OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INTERNATIONAL INC: $5k → 14%7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGES: $22k → 16%POETICE: $10k → 10%CHINESE GOSPEL CHURCH: $20k → 21%MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 16%SLAVIC GOSPEL ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC: $5k → 9%GO AND LOVE FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%FRIENDS OF GRACE: $5k → 10%REALITY CHURCH OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGES: $12k → 16%CHINESE GOSPEL CHURCH: $20k → 21%MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 16%CHURCH IN WASHINGTON DC: $10k → 6%AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC: $5k → 9%FRIENDS OF GRACE: $5k → 10%7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGES: $10k → 16%CHINESE GOSPEL CHURCH: $15k → 21%CHURCH IN WASHINGTON DC: $10k → 6%AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC: $5k → 9%BLESSINGS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGES: $10k → 16%CHINESE GOSPEL CHURCH: $10k → 21%CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GERMANTOWN: $8k → 8%THE CHURCH IN HACIENDA HEIGHTS: $5k → 14%7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGES: $10k → 16%CHINESE GOSPEL CHURCH: $10k → 21%BCM INTERNATIONAL INC: $5k → 9%7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGES: $10k → 16%CHINESE GOSPEL CHURCH: $5k → 21%BCM INTERNATIONAL INC: $5k → 9%CHURCH IN ROSEMEAD: $10k → 14%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%MARYLAND GOSPEL CHURCH: $8k → 8%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%MARYLAND GOSPEL CHURCH: $8k → 8%MARYLAND GOSPEL CHURCH: $6k → 8%MARYLAND GOSPEL CHURCH: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
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OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
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DC
LA
TX
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of The Hwang Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Hwang Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.8% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$669k · 35 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
12

Total granted

$669k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+70%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthFood & NutritionInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • 7S
    7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGES
    7× · 2019–2025 · $94k · revenue +493%
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +57%
  • AF
    AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • GI
    GALILEE INTERNATIONAL USgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +52%
  • SG
    SLAVIC GOSPEL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • MO
    Mercury One Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Institute of Chinese Studies

ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally

International
2
Chinese Christian Life Fellowship Inc

To edify and make disciples of mainland china and overseas chinese christians to become devoted to only one great person: jesus christ the lord and savior and be motivated by only one greater purpose: building up his church for his glory

Religion
3
Chinese Gospel Broadcasting Center Inc

Religious broadcasting services to involve christians in professional and media fields to join force in the production of gospel programs for radio and

Arts & Culture
4
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
5
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
6
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

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…

8
Chinese Overseas Christian Mission Inc

An evangelical interdenominational missionary society dedicated to reaching chinese for christ.

Religion
9
InitiativeGlobal

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

Religion
10
Gospel Operation International for Chinese Christians

Our mission is to accomplish the Great Commission through the use of resources of Chinese churches worldwide in mission education, recruitment, training, missionary sending, and all other effective means in collaboration with the Global…

Religion
11
Chinese Christian Mission Inc

To reach out to the chinese worldwide in local evangelism and foreign missions. this purpose is facilitated through the use of missionaries, evangelism training and literature.

Religion
12
Christian Mission to the Orient

The organization is a missionary sending/sponsoring organizations that engage in Christian evangelism and training leaders for the churches in SE Asia

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ambassadors for Christ Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chinese Christian Church of Germantown. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%25%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,519

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHINESE GOSPEL CHURCH — $80,000 · OtherCHINESE GOSPEL CHURCHMARYLAND GOSPEL CHURCH — $56,900 · OtherMARYLAND GOSPEL CHURCHBCM INTERNATIONAL INC — $27,000 · OtherBCM INTERNATIONAL INCREALITY CHURCH OF LOS ANGELES — $25,000 · OtherREALITY CHURCH OF LOS ANGELESCHURCH IN WASHINGTON DC — $20,000 · OtherCHURCH IN WASHINGTON DCTHE CHURCH IN HACIENDA HEIGHTS — $18,500 · OtherTHE CHURCH IN HACIENDA HEIGHTSCHURCH IN ROSEMEAD — $17,500 · OtherCHURCH IN GAITHERSBURG — $13,410 · Other+18 more — $76,550 · Other+18 more7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGES — $94,000 · Religion7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGESAMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC — $36,420 · ReligionAMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INCJESUSONLINE MINISTRIES — $16,000 · ReligionJESUSONLINE MINISTRIESChinese Christian Church of Germantown — $14,000 · ReligionChinese Christian Church of G…Wycliffe Bible Translators International Inc — $13,000 · ReligionWycliffe Bible Translators In…+3 more — $14,000 · Religion+3 moreFRIENDS OF GRACE — $20,000 · HealthFRIENDS O…Poetice — $12,000 · HealthPoeticeSPECIAL LOVE INC — $11,000 · HealthSPECIAL L…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $7,500 · HealthST JUDE C…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $5,000 · HealthMEMORIAL …The Against Malaria Foundation — $2,500 · Health+1 more — $1,700 · HealthPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $56,450 · PhilanthropyMANNA FOOD CENTER INC — $22,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $12,845 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $3,000 · Food & NutritionGALILEE INTERNATIONAL US — $15,000 · InternationalMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $12,150 · InternationalMercury One Inc — $5,000 · InternationalGO AND LOVE FOUNDATION — $16,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $3,500 · Education
Other$334,860Religion$187,420Health$59,700Philanthropy$56,450Food & Nutrition$38,345International$32,150Education$19,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGES — $94,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $56,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC — $36,420 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC — $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GRACE — $20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGO AND LOVE FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetJESUSONLINE MINISTRIES — $16,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGALILEE INTERNATIONAL US — $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetChinese Christian Church of Germantown — $14,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWycliffe Bible Translators International Inc — $13,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $12,845 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $12,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPoetice — $12,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL LOVE INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMAZING LOVE INC — $6,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSTREAM OF PRAISE MUSIC MINISTRIES — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Bible Study — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercury One Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE GOSPEL MISSION — $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE CHINESE SCHOOL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROCKVILLE PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $1,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BENTON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds 7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP BRIDGES
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC
  • Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF GRACE
  • Who funds GO AND LOVE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JESUSONLINE MINISTRIES
  • Who funds GALILEE INTERNATIONAL US
  • Who funds Chinese Christian Church of Germantown
  • Who funds Wycliffe Bible Translators International Inc
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC
  • Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc
  • Who funds Poetice
  • Who funds SPECIAL LOVE INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds AMAZING LOVE INC
  • Who funds STREAM OF PRAISE MUSIC MINISTRIES
  • Who funds Community Bible Study
  • Who funds THE BLESSINGS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Mercury One Inc
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds Mid Atlantic Chinese Christian Conference

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO12.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Hwang Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Manna Food Center Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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