· Private foundation
The Li Lu Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $473k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $1,002,500 |
| ENDOWMENT OF THE US INSTITUTE OF PEACE | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | $120,000 |
| THE PARADISE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $103,098 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COMMITTEE OF 100 | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NYU STERN BUSINESS SCHOOL | $33,400 |
| ST THOMAS SCHOOL | $31,000 |
| NATIONAL MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $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 (FY23–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
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 8% of The Li Lu 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY6× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
- EOENDOWMENT OF THE US INSTITUTE OF PEACE3× · 2021–2024 · $900k · revenue +49%
- PSPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL5× · 2019–2023 · $530k · revenue +36%
Funded once
The Rand Corporationone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -1%- GOGUARDIAN OF ANGELS CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- HUHUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2020 · $106k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 59 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.
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- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds ENDOWMENT OF THE US INSTITUTE OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE OF 100 INC ↗
- Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHINESE AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Center for Humane Technology ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
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- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
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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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · Wm Keck Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Li Lu Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Li Lu Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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