· Private foundation
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 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 |
|---|---|
| WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS | $30,000 |
| SOLVANG SENIOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| BUELLTON SENIOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| LOS ALAMOS VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS O | $20,000 |
| SERVANTS AT WORK INC | $20,000 |
| VALLEY HAVEN | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN CARING | $20,000 |
| ATTERDAG AT HOME | $15,000 |
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +113% since the first grant, against -19% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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 30 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 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 COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN CARING ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Los Alamos Valley Senior Citizens 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kei Lin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kei Lin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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