How much does The Hwang Foundation give?

The Hwang Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $107,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Hwang Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (71%), Health (11%), International (9%).

Who are The Hwang Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: 7 Stages Discipleship Bridges ($94k), Chinese Gospel Church ($80k), Maryland Gospel Church ($57k).

Does The Hwang Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hwang 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.

Where is The Hwang Foundation based?

The Hwang Foundation is based in DE.

The Hwang Foundation

The Hwang Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Hwang Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as The Hwang Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $58k
$10k–50k3 grants · $50k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC	$3,000
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INTERNATIONAL INC	$3,000
PIONEERS	$3,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC	$2,500
MANNA FOOD CENTER INC	$2,500
MID-ATLANTIC CHINESE CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE INC	$2,500
SON SPOT MINISTRIES INCORPORATED	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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

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

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of The Hwang Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Hwang Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 6.8% 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

Total granted

$669k

$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionHealthFood & NutritionInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

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
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +70%

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.

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

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

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

Global Media Outreach

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

Religion

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

Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion

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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Chinese Overseas Christian Mission Inc

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

Religion

InitiativeGlobal

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

Religion

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

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

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

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ambassadors for Christ Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

24/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$334,860Religion$187,420Health$59,700Philanthropy$56,450Food & Nutrition$38,345International$32,150Education$19,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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

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 Hwang Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hwang Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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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, 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$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