· Private foundation
The Liu Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS NEW YORK C | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE | $25,000 |
| CHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BRISTOL BOROUGH COMMUNITY ACTION GR | $15,000 |
| GARDEN OF HOPE | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $610k · revenue -13%
- NYNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE8× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +19%
- CHCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- PFPREP FOR PREPone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -28%
- NNEWYORK-PRESBYTERIANQUEENSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +54%
Oberlin Collegegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · 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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…
New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Our mission is to provide the highest-quality, state-of-the-art mental health and chemical dependency treatment in a warm, healing environment. our caring, compassionate team prepares our patients to return to their families and…
To educate the general public of new york on all aspects of opera through opera productions, lectures, classes, camps, social media, newsletters, etc. while emphasizing the need to make opera accessible and affordable to all people, no…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIANQUEENS ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE REGINA OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Liu Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Liu Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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