· Private foundation
The Lu 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 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 |
|---|---|
| LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $4,500 |
| YOUTH ON COURSE | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LOS GATOS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $572 |
| USA SHIN YAT TONG MORAL SOCIETY INC | $80 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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 +48% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +189%
- FOFRIENDS OF LOS GATOS PUBLIC LIBRARY2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +11%
- USUSA SHIN YAT TONG MORAL SOCIETY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $680 · revenue +48%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- TJTHE JOY CULTURE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -35%
- K4KARS 4 KIDS INCone grant, 2024 · $900 · revenue +14%
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.
The mission of the scga junior golf foundation is to develop an inclusive golf community that enables kids to thrive on and beyond the course. we believe that every kid in southern california, no matter their circumstance, should have the…
The organization is an exempt social club under irc section 501(c)(7) whose program service activities are organized & operated substantially for the pleasure & recreation of its members. all programs of the club are related to the purpose…
The foundation's sole activity is the awarding of scholarships to undergraduate and graduate university students of high academic distinction. this is based on the belief that investing in today's youth will help to ensure that students…
To advance the academic and reputational success of uc college of the law, san francisco ("the college") through collaborative and impactful fundraising initiatives.
Southern california golf association's mission is to promote the game of golf.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The university of california press foundation (incorporated in 1981) is dedicated to raising philanthropic support and community visibility to ensure the long-term sustainability of uc press.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Alumni Association and the most unlike its peers is Usa Shin Yat Tong Moral Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LOS GATOS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOY CULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KARS 4 KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds USA SHIN YAT TONG MORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lu Family 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.
- Kars 4 Kids Inc — 0% of income from government
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.