New Jersey · Private foundation
The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam 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.
- $219k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 59
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $219k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $201k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $173k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $121k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $189k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $356k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $201k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 52 | $193k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey Symphony Orchestra | $309,860 | 8 | 7% |
| Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation Inc | $282,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Committee of 100 Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ace Foundation | $72,500 | 6 | 7% |
| Ohana Paddling Association Inc | $48,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $42,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Chinese-American Planning Council Inc | $35,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Classically Connected Inc | $26,370 | 4 | 10% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($414k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation
- How much does The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation give?
- The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $219,229 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Health (19%), Community Improvement (10%).
- Who are The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra ($310k), Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation Inc ($282k), Trustees of Purdue University ($100k).
- Does The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Gofundmeorg, The Tang Fund.
- Where is The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation based?
- The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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