· Private foundation
The Kao Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP | $7,000 |
| FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF SAN GABRIEL VALLEY | $5,000 |
| FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF SAN GABRIEL VALLEY | $5,000 |
| CURE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION | $1,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP- USA | $1,000 |
| FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INC | $1,000 |
| CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER | $1,000 |
| FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF SAN GABRIEL VALLEY | $1,000 |
| THE PEACH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LOS ANGELES MISSION INC | $900 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The Kao Family 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.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +62%- ICInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +9%
- ISINTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- RFRENEWAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -28%
- CWCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +26%
- COCMAAA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAone grant, 2024 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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
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
To engage in local and overseas evangelism, mission training & supports, empowering churches worldwide to live out the short-term mission movement, where chiristians can participate in sharing the gospel and fulfilling the great commission.
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To share Gospel with Chinese intellectuals. The goals of the Association are 1. to network and discipline Chinese Christian scholars in North America for their moral and academic excellence, 2. to reach the unreached Chinese academic world…
Provide theological education
Religious broadcasting services to involve christians in professional and media fields to join force in the production of gospel programs for radio and
Rigorous biblical and accessible education, training and resources for churches worldwide.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Develop and publish multi-media Christian courses for e-learning
To promote the Roman Catholic Church in China now under persecution through increased prayers financial support and other appropriate projects.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cure Sanfilippo Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
14 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds PAMC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Metro World Child Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PEACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GETS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: MY Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Kao Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.