· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CURE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION | $1,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP- USA | $1,000 |
| THE PEACH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF SAN GABRIEL VALLEY | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INC | $1,000 |
| FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $1,000 |
| CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER | $1,000 |
| LOS ANGELES MISSION INC | $900 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of The Kao Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- CWCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +26%
- RFRENEWAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -28%
- COCMAAA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds PAMC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
- Who funds USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GETS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Metro World Child Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kao Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kao Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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