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The Kei Lin 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 |
|---|---|
| WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS | $30,000 |
| SOLVANG SENIOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| BUELLTON SENIOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| VALLEY HAVEN | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN CARING | $20,000 |
| SERVANTS AT WORK INC | $20,000 |
| LOS ALAMOS VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS O | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| HIDDEN WINGS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| PILGRIM TERRACE COOPERATIVE HOMES | $15,000 |
| ATTERDAG VILLAGE OF SOLVANG | $15,000 |
| ATTERDAG AT HOME | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +113% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- AAATTERDAG AT HOME INC6× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +140%
- SFSolvang Friendship House2× · 2023–2024 · $36k · revenue +18%
- SBSANTA BARBARA MEALS ON WHEELS INC2× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- AFAdvocacy for Respect and Choice- Long Beach Incone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -19%
- SYSANTA YNEZ VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATIONS (BUELLTON SENIOR CENTER)one grant, 2020 · $10k
- USUNITY SHOPPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +41%
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.
To provide adult day services for individuals living with dementia, offering a safe, enriching environment while providing respite for family caregivers. Friendship Center provides caregiver support services, offering guidance and…
Deliver meals and provide informal health and welfare visits to disabled and elderly clients in the Santa Maria Valley.
To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities
Garden Path Elder Living operates a residential care home for elders that provide assistance with daily living and nursing oversight.
Offering compassionate and convenient in-home respite care for disabled loved ones and supportive living solutions in north county san diego.
Lifetime assistance services for persons with developmental disabilities
Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…
Engaged in the activities to provide elderly personal homes supporting the elderly.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners in Caring and the most unlike its peers is The Rona Barrett Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 30 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 VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ATTERDAG AT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Solvang Friendship House ↗
- Who funds WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Advocacy for Respect and Choice- Long Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds Servants at Work Inc ↗
- Who funds Los Alamos Valley Senior Citizens Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN CARING ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN WINGS ↗
- Who funds PILGRIM TERRACE COOPERATIVE HOMES ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds The Rona Barrett Foundation ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURES IN CARING 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: The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Kei Lin 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.
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